LWB45L Lifted 6 Seat Electric Golf Cart Rental Guide, Miramar Beach

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Read This Before You Turn The Key

This is a street legal motor vehicle, not a golf course buggy, and it does not behave like the car you drove down here in. Read this part twice. Every approved driver should read it before they take the wheel for the first time.

What this vehicle does not have

No airbags. No crumple zones. No doors. No roof structure designed to protect occupants in a rollover. Nothing holds a person in except the seat belt they are wearing, and an unbelted rider can be thrown out in a turn or a stop that a car would shrug off. Braking distance is longer than you expect, and a full load of six people changes both the braking and the balance.

• Everyone seated, belted, hands and feet inside. No standing, no riding on laps, no sitting on seat backs, no legs hanging over the side, no one riding the rear step. Count your seats: six people, six seat belts, no exceptions.
• Speed is the whole game. This vehicle is built for roads posted 35 mph or less. Drive it slower than that in neighborhoods, parking lots and anywhere people are walking.
• Watch the edges. Dropping a wheel off pavement onto sand or a soft shoulder while turning is how a low speed vehicle gets put on its side. If a wheel leaves the pavement, ease off, hold the wheel straight, and come back on gently.
• Keep the load steady. Riders leaning out or shifting to one side in a turn works against you. Cargo goes in the storage box or on the floor, not on laps or hanging off the back.
• Never let a child sit in a driver's lap or steer. Not for a photo, not in a parking lot.

• Only approved drivers may operate it. Every driver must be 22 or older, hold a valid license, carry their own active auto insurance, and be listed and approved on the signed rental agreement before the rental begins. Lockbox codes go only to approved drivers. Anyone else driving is prohibited use, which voids coverage and shifts responsibility to the renter.
• Do the walkaround. Before your first drive, look at the tires, the seats, the belts, the lights and the body. Text a photo of anything that looks wrong to (850) 830-4699 before you pull out.
• Belts and child restraints. Everyone belted, every trip. Florida Statute 316.613 requires that a child through age 3 ride in a separate carrier or an integrated child seat, a booster is not sufficient, and a child aged 4 or 5 ride in a separate carrier, an integrated child seat, or a booster.
• Phones stay down while moving. All phone and device use while this vehicle is in motion is prohibited, handheld and hands free alike. Stop in a safe, lawful place first.
• Alcohol. Florida DUI law applies to this vehicle exactly as it applies to a car.
• If you are in an accident. Call 911, stay at the scene, report it, then text (850) 830-4699.

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Get The Key Out Of The Lockbox

LWB45L keeps its lockbox under the middle row seat, next to the battery. The middle row lifts on its armrest and the box is sitting right there.

1. Lift the middle row seat by the armrest. The whole cushion swings up and the black lockbox is mounted underneath.
2. Line up your 4 digit code. Roll the digits until they read straight across.
3. Slide the black button down. The lid pops open and the key is inside.

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Turn It On And Pull Away

Nothing happens on the first turn of the key except the dashboard waking up. Two things stop most first drives: the key was only turned once, or the tow switch is still in TOW.

1. Sit down and buckle up. The seat belt is the first move, not the last.
2. Check the tow switch is on RUN. It lives near the battery compartment under the seat, or on the front passenger side near the glovebox. In TOW, the vehicle is dead on purpose.
3. Turn the key twice to the right. The first turn lights the dashboard. The second turn wakes the drive system.
4. Set the direction selector to F or R. Come to a full stop before you ever change direction.
5. Foot off the brake, then squeeze the accelerator. Electric torque arrives instantly and quietly. Ease into it for the first hundred feet until you feel it.
6. Headlights, turn signals and horn are on the dash and column. Use headlights and signals on public roads exactly as you would in a car.

04

Charging The Lithium Pack

LWB45L was converted to a lithium ECO pack, so charging is simpler than the old lead acid fleet. Plug it into a standard wall outlet every night, roughly 8 hours from low to full, and plug it in any time it is parked during the day. There is no watering, no memory to protect and no harm in topping it off after a short drive.

• Plug in every night. Even after a two mile run to dinner. Habit beats memory on vacation.
• One outlet per vehicle. Two vehicles on one outlet trips the breaker. If you only have one, stagger the charging.
• Older condo or house, use a clear circuit. Unplug the coffee maker and the TV from that outlet before you plug in.
• Look for the glow at both cord ends. Both should light up. That glow is how you know it is actually charging and not sitting on a dead outlet.
• The cord rides with you. Leave it under the seat, not in the condo. A flat pack at the far end of 30A becomes a tow at your expense.

05

Reading The Battery Gauge

The round ECO Lithium gauge sits above the glovebox on the front passenger side. Unlike the old lead acid gauges, a lithium readout stays honest through the whole pack, so what it shows is what you have. Glance at it before you leave for dinner, not after.

06

Night Glow Lights

Power the vehicle up first, key turned until the dashboard lights. The small silver remote is tethered by a cord to the dashboard. Press Power on the remote and the glow system comes on.

• Mode cycles the effects: solid, seven running modes, pulse, scan, strobe, fade, S.O.S, music modes and voice modes.
• Color steps through red, hot pink, pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, white, color cycle and color fade.
• Speed sets how fast an effect runs, five levels.

Glow lights are decoration. They are not headlights and they do not replace them. Headlights, tail lights and turn signals are what make you legal and visible after dark.

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Bluetooth Sound

Turn the key to on. Open Bluetooth on your phone and select this vehicle's speaker from the list. Once it pairs, play from your phone as usual. Keep the volume low enough to hear traffic, sirens and the people crossing in front of you, and quiet it down through residential neighborhoods at night.

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Where You Can And Cannot Drive On The Emerald Coast

LWB45L is titled, tagged and insured as a Low Speed Vehicle under Florida Statute 320.01 and 49 C.F.R. 571.500. Florida Statute 316.2122 allows it on public roads posted 35 mph or less. The orange lines on the map below are the approved corridors: Scenic Gulf Drive through Miramar Beach and Destin, and County Road 30A through Santa Rosa Beach.

Never

US-98, also called Emerald Coast Parkway, is off limits at every point, including crossing it anywhere other than a legal signalized intersection. Sidewalks, beach walkovers, dune trails and the sand itself are off limits too.

Neighborhoods matter as much as roads

Communities set their own rules on top of state law. Several well known names along 30A and in Sandestin do not allow rental vehicles at all. The communities that do welcome them include Seagrove Beach, Blue Mountain Beach, Dune Allen Beach, Seacrest Beach, Grayton Beach, Cypress Dunes, Topsail Village and Village of Sugar Beach. Check your address on the Neighborhood Rules page before you plan a drive, and follow any posted gate, guard or path rule you find once you are there.

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The AirTag On Board

Every vehicle in the fleet carries an Apple AirTag that cannot be removed. It is how we find you quickly when you need help. If your iPhone alerts you that an unknown AirTag is traveling with you, that is ours, and the unit ID is LWB45L, the same number printed on the windshield.

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Start Of Your Rental, And Getting It Back To Us

The vehicle is clean and ready by your reservation start time, and we will let you know if it lands a little early. Deliveries are routed by geography rather than by individual reservation times, which is how delivery stays free, so yours may arrive ahead of the scheduled window. When that happens it is yours to use right away. If a property manager prefers otherwise, we park it neatly to the side and out of the way.

1. Charge it to 90 percent or better and leave it plugged in. Under 90 percent is a $100 charge.
2. Put the key back in the lockbox and scramble the digits. The cord goes back under the seat.
3. Text (850) 830-4699 when it is ready. We arrive at the end of the rental or shortly after, depending on the driver's route that day.

Costs worth avoiding: a lost key or remote is $50, a missing charging cord is $50, a stranded tow is $200, a late return runs $100 per hour, and any citation is passed through plus a $35 administrative fee. Everything else is in the Terms, Conditions and Policies.

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If Something Is Not Right

It will not charge

If the cord ends are not glowing, check the breaker first. A tripped GFI is the usual answer. Reset it, replug, retry. If the breaker is fine and it is still dark, unplug, count to thirty, and plug back in. Charging more than one vehicle means one circuit each.

It will not turn on or will not move

Check the tow switch is on RUN, not TOW, near the battery compartment under the seat or on the front passenger side by the glovebox. Then turn the key twice to the right. One turn lights the dash, two wakes the drive system. Make sure the parking brake is released and the direction selector is in F or R.

Anything that feels unsafe

Stop driving, park somewhere safe and legal, and text us. Do not keep driving on a soft tire, a pull in the steering, a brake that feels long or a warning on the dash.

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Questions Renters Ask About LWB45L