Employing a Used Golfing Cart

What may be better for tooling around a huge piece of property than a small electrically powered vehicle made for two or more passengers and a little bit of equipment? If your answer is nothing then you’re trying to find a golf cart.

Although developed and marketed for the use of golfers to expedite a “walk” around a course, golf carts are also used for transporting people around places that are too expansive for walking, but would be too confined or crowded for ordinary cars. Movie studios and their back lots are famous for their use of golf carts.

Golf carts are often seen at recreational parks, big flea markets and communities that appreciate their quiet, non-polluting convenience. Since their use as transport in so many areas, makers currently offer golfing carts with car-like accessories and capabilities.

New or Used?

If you are in the golf cart market for yourself or your organization, how does one take the decision between a new or used golfing cart?

Golf courses are still the major purchaser for golf carts, of course, and they have a large turnover. Courses replace their fleet of carts every two or three years, which makes a used golf cart an easy commodity to find. If your company is looking for a few carts to zip around a business or recreational park, you may be tempted by the prospect of customized, logo-painted, high performance vehicle.

That sounds much better than a knackered, old used golfing cart that was built to putter the retired golfers around a course at safe ( read uninteresting ) speeds and no possibility of annoying any one’s concentration.

First, the important fact: a used golf cart is half the price of a new one. The difference in price runs into the thousands. Now multiply that by the number of carts your business needs.

Second, and even better, the largest manufacturers of golf carts all sell kits to upgrade that used golf cart. The manufacturers call them aftermarket parts. You can get lift kits, larger tires, a larger engine, hitch mounts, cargo boxes, audio systems, and decal sets. That should cover the cool factor.

The Used Golf Cart Industry

Whenever there is a big supply matched with a big demand, you know there’s an industry. You can buy a used golf cart refurbished or “as is.” The refurbished carts are inspected and cleaned and often come with a warranty. The “as is” used golf cart is, of course, a little cheaper and comes with the same caveat as a used car.

The choice is yours. A used golf cart at half the price, “as is” or refurbished plus a cool kit of aftermarket parts or a new cart at twice the price.

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Joe M. Randolph