Is There a UTV Company That Makes Good Stuff and Backs it Up, Unlike E-Z-GO?

[5030]

Considering how popular EZ Go golf carts are, at least around here, they must be good though I'd never own one anyway.

 

[ruffdog]

Considering how popular EZ Go golf carts are, at least around here, they must be good though I'd never own one anyway.

The OP is in Florida so there must be many golf car shops down there. The EZGO are built by Textron as is the Cushman line. They also make the Jacobson equipment.

 

[ruffdog]

I see more of the Club Car Carryall products around here. The Carryall 700 has a 6 foot box.

Carryall 700 | Work Utility Vehicle | Club Car

 

[Torvy]

To be fair, EZ GO isn't a UTV company. They are a golf cart company.

 

[D&D]

When I bought my Kubota, it came with a JD garden tractor and an E-Z-GO ST350 Workhorse, which is a 350-cc gas cart with a dump bed. It has a Subaru Robin engine.

The cart is not bad, but the company that makes it behaves like it works out of somebody's spare bedroom. Is it E-Z-GO? Is it Textron? Can't tell. The website is garbage. Lots of parts are discontinued. Some parts you can still get are cheap. Others are insanely expensive, like the $2300 dump bed.

It's like the Popeyes Chicken of cart manufacturers. Amateurish and slipshod, from one end to the other.

Sooner or later, I may want to get rid of this thing simply because of the hassle of getting parts.

Is there another company that makes similar products and also provides good customer support, like continuing to supply parts at acceptable prices?

You're upset that parts for your 2000(ish) golf cart arent available? Should a new bed be free because the old one only lasted 20ish years?

 

[Jrasband]

Get a John Deere Gator 6x4, its a beast that will hold 1,000 lbs in the bed. The 6x4 needs ballast up front or else it understeers pretty bad. I have added almost 100 lbs on mine and would like to add more.

 

[Torvy]

If he's worried about parts costs, he's probably not going to be up for JD prices.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

You're upset that parts for your 2000(ish) golf cart arent available? Should a new bed be free because the old one only lasted 20ish years?

Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about. Go compare E-Z-GO support with any other big company. They stink with newer products, too.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

To be fair, EZ GO isn't a UTV company. They are a golf cart company.

A company that makes UTV's is a UTV company. And as I have said, it's bush league with regard to all products.

You should go look at their site and then check John Deere's site.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Considering how popular EZ Go golf carts are, at least around here, they must be good though I'd never own one anyway.

It is a good cart. The company is the problem. If I want a Kubota part, I can get it fast from Ebay, a local dealer, or Messick's. Textron or Jacobsen or whatever E-Z-GO is this month is nothing like that.

And my Kubota is over 20 years old, so age is irrelevant. Kubota provides parts, not excuses.

With a fifth-rate company like this, I have to be concerned that the cart will be an orphan in a couple of years. Bed parts and engines vanished a long time ago, and things will get worse.

I will be keeping my eye out for something better. Kubota looks good.