TESTING THE EZGO SWITCH

You need to follow these steps:

1. Examine the battery pack to find black and red wires – these should be common on both gas and electric carts, minimizing any confusion
2. Take the black wire – a probe wire – and connect it to the negative terminal on your cart – this probe should be black for easier identification
3. Connect the red wire to the back of the battery pack to a neutral area – you perform this step to ground the wires and make it easier to see where electricity flows
4. Leave the key in the off position but attach the wires to a probe meter, one at a time, to check for voltage – one should have some voltage while the other should not
5. Turn the key to the on position – the wire that had no voltage should now have some and if not, there is an issue with your ignition switch

When working on a cart in this way, make sure that you carefully handle the battery and the wires to avoid getting shocked.

Wearing a good set of gloves is a smart idea here.

You may also want to wear goggles – though the risk of a battery explosion or a similar reaction is small, we cannot stress the importance of being careful and staying safe enough in this situation.

INSTALLING A CLUB CAR IGNITION SWITCH

The instructions below should give you more than enough details for this installation:

1. Look at your serial number plate and find the model number
2. Contact Club Car or an online vendor and order an ignition switch based on the model number
3. Turn off your cart and disconnect the battery to keep your cart safe
4. Remove the screws for the ignition switch plate and disconnect the attached wires
5. Take out the console and remove the ignition switch
6. Put in the new ignition switch where the old one sat

Now, you need to change up the wiring connection pattern to follow the proper process.

Rather than attaching them the way that your EZGO manual suggests, you must follow the steps outlined below.

Doing so will ensure that you create a strong electrical connection and keep your cart operating as smoothly as possible in this situation:

1. Connect the red wire to the bottom left connector
2. Run the black wire to the top left connector
3. Take the yellow wire to the bottom right connector

The big difference here is that your EZGO cart will have a blue wire instead of a yellow wire.

This wire serves the same purpose on both models but will be color-coded differently.

While you probably could have figured this out on your own due to the process of elimination, we want to make sure that all of our readers are fully aware of the proper wiring order here.

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