Electric Club Car has less power and won't go up hills

[Mike T]

1998 Electric Club Car 48 volt with batteries that are two years old. Used almost everyday and everything was working fine. All of the sudden it will only go on level ground in forward and reverse. Will not go up any grade of a hill. Batteries have water in them and are holding a charge. Any ideas?

[jakesnake27]

You should load test all batteries. It sounds like a battery problem.
Have you properly maintained them (water, connections, etc)?

what jake said

[Mike T]

Took your advice and took batteries to be checked and they all tested fine. Load test on all 6 batteries and also had each cell checked. Any ideas what to check next?

obc reset ?? brakes dragging ?

[Mike T]

thanks i will try that tomorrow

[briparts]

check the forward reverse switch if there are 3 microswitches ,one of them is for reverse half speed it may be bad

[Mike T]

I tried to reset the obc, but could not get the reverse buzzer to sound during the reset process Also checked brakes all was good. Any other ideas