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04-20-2017, 08:05 PM | #1 |
Not Yet Wild
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Oak Island, NC
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Need help with 09 Fairplay
09 48v Fairplay with new batteries.
When depressing the pedal, it jerks hard like it wants to go full speed, then drops down to no more than a walking pace. This just started in the last couple months, and I am hoping for an easy fix, so I can get rid of this sorry POS cart. Sad part is that it's a street legal with title tags, insurance and all that, sine the beach town required that, but now I can go to a plain old cart and save the money for tags, insurance, annual inspection and all that. Stupid golf cart insurance costs more than my car insurance.... Anyway, thanks in advance to anyone that might be able to help... |
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04-20-2017, 08:40 PM | #2 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Central Florida
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
Look at the controller- green light should be flashing a code.
Its either going to be a speed sensor and or magnet, or solenoid |
04-21-2017, 02:13 PM | #3 | |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
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Where would this green light be? Under the controller cover? Talked to a guy at the local cart shop and he thinks it's the speed sensor. Now all I have to do is find it...LOL Stupid Chinese cart. Can't get a diagram for it, and **** near can't get any info on it... |
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04-21-2017, 06:39 PM | #4 |
Gone Wild
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
Under controller cover your find it on the controller
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04-21-2017, 09:20 PM | #5 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
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05-12-2017, 07:33 PM | #6 |
Not Yet Wild
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Oak Island, NC
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
Speed sensor was bad...
Cart runs faster than it ever has with the fix. Life IS good once again. |
08-30-2020, 02:31 PM | #7 | |
Not Yet Wild
Join Date: Aug 2020
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
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Another random thing I noticed (could've been bad since last time I checked a week ago or so) is that the brake lights no longer work when I press the brake pedal. Checked connections and it seems fine. Strange that all I did was put it in parking brake, get going again, and this started happening. Checked the "electronic footpedal" which I also notices was apparently replaced in 2016 as that is the date of manufacture of the part (Curtis EFP713-0502) and everything seems connected and tied down. Thanks in advance for any insights as well as info on WHERE you found/bought the replacement speed sensor for your FairPlay cart as I can't find anything online! |
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09-05-2020, 07:53 PM | #8 |
Resident Curmudgeon
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
Fairplay used two different controllers in their earlier years. first was a Kinetek controller and the USB programming interface was your only method of finding any fault codes stored. That stopped working when Windows XP, its last supported OS, stopped being supported. I never could get it running properly in Vista, 7 or 10, much less a VM running XP. So finding faults on kinitek is hard. Getting replacement controllers is next to impossible.
The Curtis SepEX is their later controller, with an LED as well as support for the Curtis 1311/1313 handheld programmers. These are much easier to diagnose. Fairplay no longer exists today. They are now absorbed by Star EV, which can still supply a limited set of Fairplay exclusive parts, but not everything. Fairplay cars are like owning a DeLorean--once parts are gone, that's it. Either way, what both the OP and the last commenter seem to be experiencing are speed sensor failures. Whether or not it's even possible to buy the sensor from Star, is anybody's guess. |
09-07-2020, 08:48 AM | #9 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Central Florida
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Re: Need help with 09 Fairplay
Speed sensors are a common item and still available
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