Golf Cart UTV Hybrid 150cc...ok to use in The Villages?

[boxcarwilly]

Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.

[John_W]

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/attachments/all-about-golf-carts-things-156/87812d1611370149-golf-cart-utv-hybrid-150cc-ok-use-villages-utv2-png

The biggest factor would be can it go through a tunnel, just about any trip requires going through a tunnel. A Yamaha gas cart is 47" wide, 94" length, 71" high, other than the length, it looks like your vehicle will fit. A Yamaha cart will hold about 6 gallons and gets about 40 to 50 mpg, that tank is less than 2 gallons, might be cutting your trips a bit short. Your HP 8.2 , a Yamaha cart is about 11 HP. It would probably work, but a golf cart is so much better suited.

As far speed, golf carts without a license tag and to operate on the street cart lanes are limited to 20 mph by state law, anything faster is consider an LSV (Low Speed Vehicle) and requires a license tag and full car insurance. Since yours goes 35 and won't have a tag, it might catch the eye of a cop if you're going flat out. Dialing back the speed and changing out the tires would probably be necessary.

[Fredman]

Why

[boxcarwilly]

WhyWhy..dual purpose for other chores and faster speeds for out of The Villages trails.

[boxcarwilly]

Link to 200cc model
4 Seater Utility Golf Cart Gas TrailMaster Taurus 200 MFV UTV 200cc Utility Vehicle Four Seater w/ High Low Gear - Rear Flip Seat & Dump Bed Included! (https://www.saferwholesale.com/4-Seater-Utility-Golf-Cart-Gas-TrailMaster-Taurus-p/bvp-taurus-200-mfv.htm)

[tophcfa]

Not appropriate

[banjobob]

A good question is why , just the need to be different, when golf carts are designed for golf if you need it for other reasons I can’t think of one.

[Oneiric]

Probably get stopped by golf course employee or ambassador if you don't change those tires.

[tammy5912554@gmail.com]

I love it and say go for it!

[Larchap49]

Probably get stopped by golf course employee or ambassador if you don't change those tires.

Yes knobby tires are not allowed on the cart paths

[Dlbonivich]

What about noise, I think they seem really loud to me.

[Don5154]

Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.

It’s not a golf cart :ohdear:

[Don5154]

Why..dual purpose for other chores and faster speeds for out of The Villages trails.

And what chores would you have living in TV that would require this non golf cart:shocked:

[biker1]

The problem is not the cart paths, it is the fairways.

What is the “Tire Policy”?
Tires on the golf cars to be used on any of The Villages fairways must meet these requirements:
The manufacturer of the tire must refer to the tire as a “golf course tire”.
The tires must have a rounded vertical tread with a maximum depth of 1⁄4 inches. Total tire width must be a minimum of 8 inches.
Tire pressure must not exceed 28 psi.



Yes knobby tires are not allowed on the cart paths

[Labanz]

And what chores would you have living in TV that would require this non golf cart:shocked:

Yesterday while I was at a customer doing ac maintenance I met a local villager pulling a trailer with a large pressure washer with his golf cart. He pressure washers house and donate the money to a veterans group.

[Redwood8300]

So where will you take it for maintenance?

[Rich42]

With a gas tank size of 1.75 gal, suggest you buy a house next to a gas station and buy towing insurance.

[Marathon Man]

Asking a qquestion like that on here will result in opinions. If that is all you want, that is OK. If you are looking for more, I suggest that you attend your district meeting.

[DAVES]

Why..dual purpose for other chores and faster speeds for out of The Villages trails.

The law is 20 mph or you need plates and insurance. That is not it can do 35 but I do not exceed 20. I truly wonder why you would ask here. Should you be stopped, a defense that a Villager told me it was ok will be worth nothing.

[DAVES]

So where will you take it for maintenance?

I don't think there is any expectation of logic. Perhaps, another symptom of covid or lock
down.

[mrf6969]

Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.
Only appropriate if you live in the woods/on a ranch or tow to a camp site.
We drive these when we go back to Colorado on daughters ranch. A hell of a lot of fun on a cattle drive.
Be smart and just get you a Yamaha gas Quiet Tech and be happy too.

[John_W]

Seems like every six months, someone will ask about using an UTV in TV. Just last November another poster asked the same question and it also got to 3 pages.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/golf-villages-216/accessible-golf-cart-313517/?highlight=cart+paths

He wanted to use this, maybe the OP can send a private message to this poster and find out what happened.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/attachments/golf-villages-216/87108d1606586882-accessible-golf-cart-img_0043-jpg

[daveac83]

Set up with proper max speed restriction and tires i would think these would qualify.

Don't think I would want to play out of that. Speed must be limited to 20 mph (or so). Tires don't look like golf course tires. Small gas tank. My Yamaha holds six gallons. How noisy is it???

[dhdallas]

Why

Why not? I want to get one of those amphibious 6-wheelers or a Taylor-Dunn electric flatbed they use in warehouses. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those stupid and ridiculous golf cart conversions made to look like a Roll Royce, Humvee, etc.

"It takes a STRONG fish to swim against the current. Only the dead ones go with the flow." - John Crowe

http://www.mxiatv.com/mxi/wp-content/gallery/guided-tour-max-ii/gt_max2_b_out2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c5/19/12/c51912e5b66923cc6d0093fc83a1aa77.jpg

[DeeCee Dubya]

Who cares if it’s legal? You can out run the cops by cutting across the golf course. They’ll never follow you.
Resist the Man

[DeeCee Dubya]

Do they make amphibious with electric power?

[boxcarwilly]

Why not? I want to get one of those amphibious 6-wheelers or a Taylor-Dunn electric flatbed they use in warehouses. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those stupid and ridiculous golf cart conversions made to look like a Roll Royce, Humvee, etc.

"It takes a STRONG fish to swim against the current. Only the dead ones go with the flow." - John Crowe

http://www.mxiatv.com/mxi/wp-content/gallery/guided-tour-max-ii/gt_max2_b_out2.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c5/19/12/c51912e5b66923cc6d0093fc83a1aa77.jpg

I had a 6 wheel max in new england...turn 360 on its own length..plowed snow...drive it into the lake...sad day to let it go.:)

[stephen.q.pankow]

Seems like every six months, someone will ask about using an UTV in TV. Just last November another poster asked the same question and it also got to 3 pages.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/golf-villages-216/accessible-golf-cart-313517/?highlight=cart+paths

He wanted to use this, maybe the OP can send a private message to this poster and find out what happened.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums/attachments/golf-villages-216/87108d1606586882-accessible-golf-cart-img_0043-jpg

Hey, hey, no need! I am the original poster. I got a lot of flack about even asking the question (I mean, the nerve, right?), and for writing "accessible" rather than "acceptable". The most useful answer that I got was someone who went to the trouble of looking up the appropriate statute (imagine! Factual information which is responsive to the question at hand! Here on TOTV!), which states that if the manufacturer doesn't explicitly sell it as a golf cart, then it's not a golf cart.

This seems ambiguous to me. Could the manufacturer of either of these fine vehicles just limit the speed, replace the tires (which, as one previous poster helpfully said, the manufacturer must designate as golf cart tires), and remarket it as a golf cart, because then would be a golf cart. But then, I've long since given up on applying logic to legal matters as a fruitless battle.

[stebooo]

For sure because we don't have enough options now

[jimjamuser]

A good question is why , just the need to be different, when golf carts are designed for golf if you need it for other reasons I can’t think of one.
A golf car would be useful in TV land to pull or push an attachment to allow for grass cutting. Thus eliminating most of the unnecessary commercial grass cutting services that park their vehicles in the middle of the road and speed through the Village roads. It could promote a good feeling to Villagers who have lost their own self-respect for their youthful "do-it-yourself" attitudes that have helped the US succeed. I am not sure if such a grass cutting attachment EVEN exists. But, if it does not exist, then, too bad, it should! And some Village entrepreneur SHOULD make it happen. Real men (and women) cut their own grass!

[jimjamuser]

I had a 6 wheel max in new england...turn 360 on its own length..plowed snow...drive it into the lake...sad day to let it go.:)
Yeah, you could just drive into a water hazard and find your "floating" ball and hit an iron shot out. No need to take a penalty.......that has potential here in The Villages.