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I recently inherited a 2004 EZ-GO 36v elec. cart from my dad, the cart has rims (sorry don't know size) with mud tires on it, a top, and the rear seat attachment.

The problem I am having is, cart runs great 99% of the time, but there is a field next to me with prarie grass about 1-2' high that I hit golf balls in to and started using this cart to retreive them. Works fine moving continuously at a very slow pace, until we get up the hill a ways (about 10 minutes in) and then if you stop, and are in a slight rut or hole, and try to take off, the cart will barely engage, and seem like it just "gives up" for lack of a better term and won't move. If I push the pedal it will jump every slightly and then stop again.

If I let it sit for about 30 seconds, then it runs fine, fires out of the rut, and works well for another minute or so and does it again. Once I go downhill and back on normal ground, the cart runs fine and doesn't act up.

So to me and my novice experience with electric, it seems like something in the cart is tripping a sensor, or overheating due to over work?? I assume this as it works after sitting for 30 seconds.

Anyway, any ideas out there if this is normal operation, or if there is something that needs looked at on the cart?

Thanks much.

Brian.