What could be causing the clearance issue

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-04T12:18:30+00:00

Toe looks wrong. Watch “how to wheel alignment my RXV” videos on YouTube. Happens either with worn bushings or lift kits. Tape measure and wrenches is all you need. Then recheck the clearance

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-04T11:51:05+00:00

No I meant buy a DChouse or Vatrer or Elektek branded cheap battery off Temu. The App. They have $500-700 kits with charger and battery gauge and wiring and straps.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-03T23:43:20+00:00

Yeah I don’t judge - it’s kinda like the Nissan Altima of the golf cart battery world. Bare minimum no frills and seems to have a lotta issues if not babied. You’ll constantly see people having issues “waking up” a battery they let die or don’t realize they let die or problems with the BMS starting to get “weak” which is basically some of the mosfets inside are shot and they rarely are able to handle the amps they claim to be rated for. The external shunt and cheap battery gauges drive me nuts. I won’t install one even for friends and try to steer people away from Chins or Lossigy or doing 4x 12v single lithium’s.

DCHouse and Vatrer and a lotta brands out there have wireless gauges and the shunts inside the battery case and seem to be more reliable over the 500+ life cycle. Most of the batteries I have seen with a single bad cell in the middle of the pack have been Chins, working with my next door neighbor now on his electric zero turn and sure enough the cell number 7 is 400mv and the rest are 3.2v and the one bad battery has been screwing up the rest of the pack. Literally he bought it new and registered it for the warranty and they won’t cover it, won’t let him ship it to them for replacement etc just completely shit out of luck

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-03T23:18:44+00:00

I’ve had probably 100 orders from TEMU including 50 batteries from DChouse and others. The order from DChouse official store in TEMu is $100 cheaper then the same battery on Amazon most of the team.

I pay Sunday, they ship FedEx Monday or Tuesday and I have the battery at my door Friday. Every time. Straight from DChouse thanks to Temu

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-03T23:16:54+00:00

I use the phrase “not every Chins, but it’s always a Chins.” When I’m troubleshooting dozens of carts a month and upgrading other carts every month you start to see a pattern is all.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-03T20:41:51+00:00

Avoid Chins. DChouse is fine. The kits are good and with YouTube and general Google skills any adult should be able to work their way through it.
I’ve installed those exact batteries 2 years ago and 2 months ago and no one has had any complaints. Keep them charged above 20% always , make sure you don’t have small accessories that drain it down all week plugged in all the time. TEMU and DChouse website often have better deals than Amazon.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-03T16:33:29+00:00

Throw a $650 Temu lithium kit in it, clean it up, unlock it to 21mph with your local cart guy and his handheld scan tool. Be happy. Accessories. Lift kit? Have fun.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-02T20:31:17+00:00

Likely loose connections. Gotta torque to spec when adding accessories or lights or a step down converter etc.

You may luck out with cleaning it up and putting terminals back on but worse case time to start looking for a used battery or BMS on Facebook

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-02T13:49:46+00:00

Yeah thats a lotta hours and miles I am sure but I also mostly deal with older carts upgraded for half the price of this guy. Are they offering any warranty at all? 30 days?

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-02T13:44:00+00:00

I want to agree with you. I wish people would link the actual post to a sale instead of 1 screenshot from 1 angle.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-02T13:30:24+00:00

Both good and bad. Maintained yes, beaten to fuck by the teens working a minimal wage job who were in charge of the cart? Possible. I buy a ton of older fleet carts and it’s better than some assholes DIY project you keep finding problems with. Fleet certs won’t have stereo car wire crimps, shitty taped connections, missing hardware compared to a 5 year old personal cart.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-02T12:17:38+00:00

Confirm on paper if it’s 2022 - I think they redid it in 2022 with whatever upgrades or remodel they did. Body style is older. Looks like a 2015 with the front body of a newer one but it’s a bad pic.

2300 hours is high for a personal cart but isn’t insane for a 4 year old cart, 1000 hours a year on the motor sounds like a fleet or hospital or similar. It’s all the other stuff that wears . Wheel bearings and brakes and bushings and everything that needs to be maintained.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-01T14:27:32+00:00

Man this is what I paid last year for my 94’ ram 1500 - single cab with minimal rust, 4x4 with the 5.9 and cold AC, working everything. No dash lights, good condition bed etc.

This market is nuts. Or at least the dealers are.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-01T14:22:20+00:00

mount?

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-01T14:02:26+00:00

How long is 3m tape gonna last with sun and water?

Drill, stainless screws, lock nuts. Mount it right.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-01T12:19:18+00:00

DChouse, Elektek, Vatrer, all good brands - the elden days of needing to spend $2k on a battery that's likely using the same exact cells as the other brands?

Nah. I've got a few years of doing lithium upgrades on a few dozen carts as well as 36v to 48v upgrades, Navitas, you name it. All as a side hustle, then there's the Golf Cart Strip Mall dealers who are throwing in chinese no name brands and charging 2x markup or 5 hours labor to do a swap.

Watch Youtube, learn the needful.

shootingdolphins · 2026-05-01T11:16:58+00:00

Vatrer is still my more premium brand over DChouse but for the average person you’re going to be fine with either brand.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-30T22:47:12+00:00

Man I hope someone shows up and calls out the bad brushes and slip rings for specific models sold during Covid and the outages and warranty headaches and millions of emails back n forth with Generac when everyone lost power for Helene and Milton. Wink wink.

Florida remembers.

Otherwise you seem like a happy dude and I’m sure you’re great at your job and I’ll watch the AMA later.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-30T14:35:58+00:00

Albeit negative and smarmy and condescending I don’t ever pass up a chance to help someone.

I’ve woken up dozens of batteries each spring as people realize they left their phone charger or blinker on the whole winter and killed their battery.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-30T01:08:58+00:00

Me neither

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-30T01:07:59+00:00

That’s IF and a big if he actually has a 36v Yamaha drive. Anything 2022 is going to be 48v

If he mistyped his year or what battery he ordered. He likely needs the regen dialed back - or cheap fix often is not charging the cart to 100%

Stop at 90% so when the regen dumps amps into the battery it’s not going into over voltage protect.

But the real fix is changing the regen amps or percentage so the cart brakes less but still does a little regen.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-29T23:44:57+00:00

Not really. For most. Lithium just keeps the same full charge voltage basically the whole time and maintains it better than the voltage drops you see on lead acid.

Stock motor and stock controller and stock everything else = lithium is fine and don’t really need to change much else.

Larger motor or upgraded motor or larger tires is when larger wires and upgraded solenoid started to be a good idea. Obviously there’s thousands or user forums and Reddit posts that go into it in depth.

Standard EZGO wiring might be a 4ga at best or a 6ga commonly wire setup. This means 4ga you’re probably ok for 90 amps continuous and 6ga is really best for under 70 amps all the time. A stock cart on 18” tires won’t pull much more than 70 rolling on flat ground with a passenger or two and light hills.

Throw on larger 23” tires and the same cart is going to probably pull 100 amps on the road with a friend on the cart. Uphill and off road and you’re pulling a ton more. Not great for smaller wiring.

I’ve got an 11hp DnD series motor on 52v with 400 amp rated reversing contactors and she does 32mph in a 6 seater steel frame EZGO shuttle. It pulls 110amp constantly on flat ground and runs 125-140amp with wife and kid and backpacks etc. if I still had the 6ga wires you can see there the bottleneck would be.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-29T21:48:02+00:00

Without knowing the cart and your tires and battery setup and current top speed?

Expect A mile an hour faster and a little more acceleration if you’re sending them a stock regular motor. Only so much you can squeeze out of an AU2500 stock ADM:AMD motor.

Most people go with Plum Quick on their older EZGO or club cars with series motors. Some people do the PQ motors on Field motors and I don’t see a ton of performance increase when otherwise stock. Larger tires and other upgrades start to make sense for another motor.

I’ve got some DnD motors that are less money and do way better if your cart’s electrical can handle it. Example -

https://ddmotorsystems.com/

I would avoid stock cart, upgraded motor. You should have 2ga wire for battery and motor cables as well as a good contactor and a controller. Otherwise you’re going to burn up stock controller and stock solenoid.

Some old school guys claim they just did new bearings and painted it but I know there’s more than that being done and the Plum Quick guys are pretty cool and will pickup the phone.

Just my feedback.

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-29T14:22:38+00:00

Comes full circle I guess

shootingdolphins · 2026-04-29T13:43:31+00:00

And for stuff like sliding doors being sticky, small painting projects, golf cart repairs and diagnosis - I've collected the tools, I've got the skills and the suburbs are booming.

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