Grandkids and your cart

[kgsc]

FORE RIGHT!!!

[beaverislander]

Originally Posted by scottyb

Yes, the neighbors old dog got in his cart and sat on the go pedal. The cart went through the other neighbors fence and he blamed the dog
Cart was left on & in gear. The accident was completely avoidable.

I can see that happening, my dogs love the cart rides. While I know that the key should be turned off, I didn't think about taking it out of gear so that's another good idea.

I still don't know if it would actually damage anything if it was "accidentally" left on overnight or for a couple of days though. I know on older vehicles it burnt something out (points maybe?) and while I realize that is not an issue here, I was just wondering if it actually could harm anything, outside of accidents.

By the way, I built a divider that separates my foot space from the dogs area to keep them off the pedals... more that once I've had to turn the key off to stop the cart while under motion.

[rib33024]

One of the guys through a yard marker, and it landed on the go pedal. If the key was off. This wouldn't have happen

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[NoleFan4Ever]

Several years ago, we were in Jax at the GM dealership looking at the new Impala's. My wife and I were on the showroom floor and my boys (4 & 6 back then) walked over to the front entrance and sat down on their cart. Of course, one of them stepped on the Go Pedal and it took off and rolled one of them off and the other into the seat as it ran into their wall. The staff came running out and immediately starting checking on the boys, but the one manager turned around and snatched the key out and exclaimed that he had told all of them not to leave the key on!

(Had I been thinking more back then, that dealership could have been NoleFan Motors shortly thereafter.... )

[beaverislander]

After hearing these stories I think it might be a good idea to run that meter off the key switch. That gives everyone a visual and if I tell them it'll run the battery down ( ) if they leave the meter/key on, they'll be sure to shut it off. Plus, I hate to think how many times I've went out to the garage and the dogs were already on the cart ready to roll.

[dundeebarnbuggy]

My friend has a CC ds gas. Uses it to check on cattle. This June he was dealing with a difficult calving, [cow had rolled herself under an electric fence into the river] one of the other bovines reached in and pushed the go pedal enough to start the cart moving and, yes, right into the river. He's not gonna live this one down easily!

[lockman1]

My grandsons will just have to eventually get their own cart!

Nuff said!

[mrgolf]

One of the golf courses I play has a fleet on 2007 club car DS carts. They are all turned on and key removed. They have been that way for several years. They were loosing too many keys.