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CPSC recalls involving gas and electric golf carts, golf cars, and golf and transport vehicles.
35 official CPSC notices published 2001–2026, covering at least 1 million units.
Type the model number from your golf cart's label. Every model number named in a golf cart recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
62 model numbers
Model Year 2017-2024 Yamaha Golf Car Vehicles · 26-027 · 2025
Yamaha Golf Cars and Personal Transportation Vehicles · 22-726 · 2022
Garia Golf & Courtesy battery-powered electric vehicles · 20-122 · 2020
Yamaha Golf Cars · 20-718 · 2020
Yamaha Golf Cars and Personal Transportation Vehicles · 18-725 · 2018
Columbia ParCar Golf, service and utility vehicles · 12-715 · 2012
Club Car 2004 and 2005 · 05-528 · 2005
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The recalled golf cars' passenger-side brake cable could have been misrouted during assembly. If the cable was misrouted, abnormal wear can occur which can cause the passenger-side cable to break during use, posing a risk of serious injury or death from a crash hazard.
The recalled golf car vehicles lack stop lights, posing a risk of serious injury or death, due to a crash hazard.
The recalled golf car vehicles can fail to brake, posing a risk of serious injury or death, due to a crash hazard.
Yamaha Motor
The accelerator pedal spring can fail to return to idle when a consumer stops pressing the accelerator pedal, posing a crash hazard.
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The accelerator spring can become dislodged, allowing the accelerator pedal not to return to the resting position, posing crash and injury or death hazards.
LvTong USA Golf Cars LLC, dba Advanced EV
The golf cart's front seat can become loose due to missing rubber grommets, posing fall and injury hazards to operators and/or passengers.
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Yamaha Golf-Car
The recalled vehicles can have brake failure, posing a crash hazard that could result in injury or death to the user or bystander.
Garia A/S
A fuse can overheat and melt while the electric vehicle is charging, posing a fire hazard.
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Yamaha Golf-Car
The front wheel hubs on the golf cars can crack causing the front wheels to detach, posing a crash hazard that could result in injury or death to the user or bystander.
The starter generator wire can be improperly secured, allowing it to come into contact with the vehicle's exhaust, posing a fire hazard.
Yamaha Motor Manufacturing
The module that regulates power to the vehicle's USB ports can overheat and melt, posing a fire hazard.
Fuel can leak from an improperly-routed fuel line, posing fire and burn hazards.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 33 of 35 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 35 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
The 34 notices that give a price range from $3,000 to $75,000. Half of them name a price of $6,000 or less.
By the 35 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 8 months or less; the longest for 10 years. Half the recalls came within 15 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A repair in 23 of the 27 notices that name a remedy, a replacement in 4. Some notices offer more than one.
Crash is named in 16 of the 35 notices (46%), against 5% of all CPSC notices on file. Then fire (12), fall (3), and burn (1).
26 of the 35 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 2 report injuries. 9 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
9 of the 35 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 33, date codes or manufacture dates in 4. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on a label under the seat on the left or right side” (2 notices), “on a plate or label inside the cab below the driver's seat” (2 notices), and “on the left and right side of the vehicle” (2 notices).
United States (24), Japan (6), Assembled in the United States (1), Assembled in United States (1) and China (1), in the 33 notices that name a manufacturing country.
6 golf cart notices in 2021–2025, down from 7 in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 35 recall notices for golf carts since 2001, covering at least 1 million units. The most recent is “Yamaha Recalls Model Year 2021-2022 Fleet Golf Cars Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from a Crash Hazard” (CPSC 26-542), announced June 11, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 1 recall notice for golf carts in 2026, on June 11, 2026 (CPSC 26-542).
“Yamaha Expands Recall of Golf Car Vehicles Due to Crash Hazard; Additional Models and New Repair to Replace Accelerator Pedal Spring Assembly” (CPSC 25-321), announced June 5, 2025: about 352,000 units.
Brands named most often: Club Car (14), Yamaha Golf-Car (10), Yamaha (9), E-Z-GO (5), Yamaha Motor Manufacturing (3), Textron Specialized Vehicles and Yamaha Motor, plus 6 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 9 of the 35 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 33 and date codes or manufacture dates in 4. The place they name most often is “on a label under the seat on the left or right side”.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across golf cart recalls, the remedies offered most often are repair (23) and replacement (4).
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