Golf cart questions

[Gear_Jammer]

I've been kicking around the idea of getting a golf cart for a couple of years, but never really done any research. I don't play golf or live on a course so it doesn't have to be golf course friendly or anything. Ideally, I would like to get a 4 seater that already has a lift and maybe a couple of other goodies, but nothing crazy as I'm trying to do this on a somewhat tight budget. The problem is that I know little, if anything, about golf carts and what they are worth. I've been looking on Craigslist and the prices are all over the place and there seems to be a lot of re-sellers, not long time owners. I could be wrong, but my guess is that a lot of the tricked out carts on CL were golf course carts for 4-5 years and have a ton of hours on them, sold for cheap to these re-sellers, dressed up with paint, lift and/or wheels and tires and then sold on CL or on one of lots around town.

Please let me know if you know much about these things and/or have a hookup on them. Thanks.

[TRAILBLAZER]

[Strychnine]

I totally don't get this. Our neighborhood is full of these damn things, and we are not on a golf course. Some houses have multiple. They just drive them to friends' houses, or let their kids tool around in them like it was a bike or something.

Did I miss a memo?

[snacksnack]

I totally don't get this. Our neighborhood is full of these damn things, and we are not on a golf course. Some houses have multiple. They just drive them to friends' houses, or let their kids tool around in them like it was a bike or something.

Did I miss a memo?

Jones'n just keepin up.

[Strychnine]

Jones'n just keepin up.

Probably right.

[GrayStangGT]

I totally don't get this. Our neighborhood is full of these damn things, and we are not on a golf course. Some houses have multiple. They just drive them to friends' houses, or let their kids tool around in them like it was a bike or something.

Did I miss a memo?

They are fun to booze and cruise.

[Gear_Jammer]

I totally don't get this. Our neighborhood is full of these damn things, and we are not on a golf course. Some houses have multiple. They just drive them to friends' houses, or let their kids tool around in them like it was a bike or something.

Did I miss a memo?

I completely understand - hence the reason I said I've been kicking the idea around for a couple of years. The main reason I would like one is carpool and dropping the kids off at school. The elementary school my kids go to is in the middle of our neighborhood and it's filled to capacity. As a result, dropping the kids off and picking them up looks like eastbound LBJ at 5:30 pm on Monday. It's taken me up to 20 minutes once I get to the school to get through the traffic and out of there. Second, we have a small forest-like area on one side of the neighborhood where we play paintball. From the closest road to where we play is about 1/4 mile down a concrete drainage ditch that's plenty wide for a cart and easily accessible. A couple of guys load all their gear in their cart and drive all the way to where we play rather than parking on the road and lugging it all the way down there. Lastly, most of our friends live somewhere between 1/2 to 3 miles away, so it would be kind of fun to just jump in the cart and taking a leisurely drive to their house.

It's a totally luxury item and that's why I'm not in some big rush to get the first cool one I see.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Batteries be 'spensive.

[Ruffdaddy]

If you go with used from a shop just check about new batteries, motor and the such.

How much you wanna spend?

[Cannon88]

[2011GT]

Polaris ranger crew

[Gear_Jammer]

If you go with used from a shop just check about new batteries, motor and the such.

How much you wanna spend?

Most of the ones I'm somewhat interested in have batteries that are less than a year old. How long will a battery last in something like a golf cart? 5 years with moderate use? Ideally, I'd like to find someone with a cart under about $5K and that's interested some kind of full or partial trade of sort. I have a guy right now that has a nice looking one (haven't seen it in person yet) for $5,500 that's willing to do a partial trade for 2 AR-15's I have. The price he's given me for my guns is decent, but he's not willing to budge on the price of the cart. At first he low-balled me on the guns and said the cart was non-nego, which pissed me off and I told him it was a no-go. He sent me a text the next day and came up on the price of the guns, but still isn't nego on the price of the cart. I told him it still wasn't enough, but that I may respond with another counter. My theory is that if I'm negotiable on the item I have for trade, he needs to be nego on what he has.

[01vnms4v]

Lmao and at cowboys aka att stadium

[Roscoe]

I have one, have had it about a year. I got it from a guy that bought it new a year earlier from www.golfcarsforfun.net - a place up off of 380.

He listed it on CL at $4k and didn't want to budge. I paid him $3900 bc I told him I refused to pay his asking on principle. He paid $6500 and gave me the receipt. It was for running around his neighborhood, which is what I use it for.

We've gotten good use out of it. Picking up my daughter from daycare, dropping off and picking up from school, running to the parks, friends houses, etc. It's a lot of fun and if you get a good price on it you can sell for at or more what you paid.

I'd suggest scouring CL for them, and buy in the off-season from someone looking to sell. I haven't had to replace the batteries in mine, and they are two years old at this point...

For $5k you should be able to find something that has many upgrades, including flip up rear seat, wheels, lift, and possible stereo.

A neighbor of mine just bought one new from the same place, and has damn near every upgrade imaginable and spent over $8k, which is nuts, IMO...

[bcoop]

My boss lives in a gated community, and uses his to go to/from neighbor's parties, etc. But he bought it to avoid DWI on the way to/from the country club. His community has a cart path that leads to the club and golf course.