New lights for the golf cart

Since putting the lithium battery into the golf cart, the lights were not working -- the lights that came with it when we bought it were in pretty sad shape (foggy headlights, several LEDs were out on the brake/signal lights, and the reflecting chrome around the headlights was no longer reflecting). Carl got new lights and set about to replace them...

He had to get underneath covering mats and fenders to get to the wiring. In the process, he found that someone who had previously worked on the golf cart had connected a red wire to a black wire which had thrown him off when he was examining the wiring to figure out why the lights had not been working. He had thought that he might be able to re-use the existing wiring, but after finding that, decided to use all new wiring (that came with the new light kit).

You can also see in the floorboard of the cart that there is a lot of red dirt -- in the process of doing this project, he had become convinced that the golf cart was in a flood at some point in its life... makes us wonder what else we might encounter...

Front end removed and new wiring in place -- again, you can see the dirt / mud that was underneath all the parts of the cart.

He got the new lights installed and working -- hurrah!!! We had been avoiding driving it at night, and if we did drive it, we used a strong flashlight so others could see us. The community has enough lighting that we could see pretty well, and there isn't a lot of traffic after dark here. One evening, we noticed that the folks driving their golf cart behind us up to the community center were also lighting their way with a flashlight (and not as bright as ours was!) -- so either we started a trend, or we were following an already established trend!