I buddy of mine cam across a nice EZGO RXV last year. It think it is a 2009 model. He brought it to the lease so we could use it to ride around and thermal hunt. He decided he wanted to trick it out but he isn’t really a mechanic. Long story short, I installed a Jakes long travel lift, put 25” tires and wheels in it, converted it from 4 12V batteries to 6 8V and put a 48V-12V converter on it to run lights and such. Along with a digital volt meter.
He said the person he got it from told him it had a “speed kit” on it. I don’t know anything about carts but it will haul butt. It doesn’t seem to have much torque though. Fast forward to the first weekend I took it back up to the lease. His son ran it into a hole and broke an upper control arm. It took 7 months to get a replacement and after I got it repaired we discovered that the charger isn’t a maintainer and the brand new batteries were stone dead. Got them all charged up and finally got to use the thing.
Managed to go about 4 miles and it went dead. This is creeping down a lease road thermal hunting. Charged it back up and it did the same thing last weekend.
What I have noticed is the thing just doesn’t seem to have any torque and I am wondering if the “speed kit” had anything to do with it. A buddy of mine has a lifted cart and can drive it around his neighborhood for a week without having to charge and this thing won’t make it to our gate and back.
Would a 1 time full discharge on brand new batteries kill them? From what I understand, the RXV has an AC motor on it instead of DC.
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He said the person he got it from told him it had a “speed kit” on it. I don’t know anything about carts but it will haul butt. It doesn’t seem to have much torque though. Fast forward to the first weekend I took it back up to the lease. His son ran it into a hole and broke an upper control arm. It took 7 months to get a replacement and after I got it repaired we discovered that the charger isn’t a maintainer and the brand new batteries were stone dead. Got them all charged up and finally got to use the thing.
Managed to go about 4 miles and it went dead. This is creeping down a lease road thermal hunting. Charged it back up and it did the same thing last weekend.
What I have noticed is the thing just doesn’t seem to have any torque and I am wondering if the “speed kit” had anything to do with it. A buddy of mine has a lifted cart and can drive it around his neighborhood for a week without having to charge and this thing won’t make it to our gate and back.
Would a 1 time full discharge on brand new batteries kill them? From what I understand, the RXV has an AC motor on it instead of DC.
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