Golf Cart Upgrade

[Cockburn Family]

For the cost of renting a cart at the fort is it worth picking up a used cart and upgrading (pimpin the ride?)

What is a good price to pay for a fixer-uper cart and what would the cost be to bring it up to a decent level or even up to the level of some folks with a custom job....

Inquiring minds are wondering....

 

[Shan-man]

I have been researching just that question, and from what I've seen in the Raleigh area, a basic working, ready to use older cart is in the range of $500-750. The same cart without batteries is about $200-400, which might be a better way to go since you cannot be 100% sure of the condition of the batteries in a used cart... might as well install new and be sure. As far as upgrades, or pimpin', the sky's the limit! Oh, and don't forget the cost modifications to haul the cart (trailer, tandem-tow, ramps for truck bed, etc.).

 

[njcamper95]

You can check ebay or craigslist for prices but if you have to ship it to you could get very expensivebut could give you ideas of cost and condition for the price depending on how much of a fixer upper you want and your mechanical skill as to what you want and price you will pay if you look at some of the cart sites they can steer you in the right direction they have forums like this to discuss all things from wheels to motors and custom everything check www.buggiesunlimited.com there is links to others also like buggiesgonewild.com which is another forum where they talk about all kinds of carts

 

[njcamper95]

You will find lots of diser's with carts on the www.buggiesgonewild.com forum also good with your search hope you find a great cart

 

[FlaFortCampster]

Saw a cart this past trip that looked like a Hummer with ALL the bells and whistles. Even had a couple of CM's walk over to check it out. Leather seats, chrome everywhere, fancy, fancy, fancy.
We concluded it cost more than ....my popup.

 

[AuburnJen92]

I got my cart on ebay (when they weren't such crooks to sellers) and paid $535 for it. No one wanted it because it was pink. I snatched it up and I do one big thing to it a year, what I can afford, to snaz it up. It is an older cart, but I love old bessey just the same. She has a new paint job, new top, new seat covers, new tires and rims, new decals and new brakes. Now I need to upgrade the speed controller and motor and put a back seat on it because my son is trying to push me off the side. Darn kid, how dare he grow! It was just more economical for me to piece everything out than to keep renting the cart in hopes that I would one day save enough for a cart that I really liked.

 

[LONE-STAR]

One of the biggest things is to make sure you have a way to get it to FW. It is illegal to pull 2 trailers in Florida. I have bought 2 gas carts off of craigslist. I paid a thousand dollars for each one of them but they needed a lot of tlc. But they are alot of fun now.

 

[BigDaddyRog]

Ive put as much into my cart as I paid for it, but its almost, kinda, in a way...theraputic. I love working on it, I like to get the thumbs up from others who know how good it feels to put one together. And it feels even better to not have to hand $55 a day to disney for their humdrum "which one of these is mine" carts.