Can you see the light?

This was a first, swapping out the lights on a 25-year old golf cart recently for a client. The driver side light was broken and instead of having it glued back together again, they decided to have it replaced. This cart was pimped up a few years ago and the LED lights were not original to this EZ Go cart. Unfortunately, the replacement driver side LED headlight would not match the passenger side LED headlight currently in the cart, so it was decided to have them both replaced.  

It appeared that the replacement headlight assembles were an exact match, but that was not the case. Along with new holes needing to be drilled in the front cowl, the new headlights required some re-wiring to work properly. Once they were re-wired, the front and rear lights worked properly and the cart was ready for use again. 

One detail that the owners were not aware of was that the batteries in their golf cart are lead-acid and not maintenance-free. The company that sold them the golf cart did not mention that fairly important detail. While I was working on the cart, I decided to pop the top off of a couple of the batteries and noticed that quite a few cells needed to be topped-off. They had a little bit of distilled water on-hand, so we were able to topped-off a few cells; but they would need more distilled water to finish the job. If your golf cart or low speed vehicle (LSV) utilizes lead acid batteries as the power source, make it a habit of checking the water level in the batteries. These batteries can be costly to replace and maintaining them can help extend their life.