A very big guy that enjoys walking

[Eack]

3 minutes ago, No Mulligans said:

A lot of folks have expressed buying a more expensive push cart so it will last.  Yet, no one with Caddy Tek experience has mentioned that they were cheaply built and broke down quickly.  Anyone?

I bought my Caddy Tek in Nov. 2014, just checked my HI log and I have 95 rounds since then so probably 90 rounds walked.  I've never had a problem and it still works as good as new.  The Caddy Tek seems really well built to me.

I got my 4 wheeler for $129 on the Costco online site.  Save yourself $100 if $100 matters to you.

Well,  I can't pass up looking at this $25 sun mountain speed cart,  but to be honest caddy tek has been an idea festering in the back of my head.  Very cheap and what I've seen made of decent quality material.  

It seems to me that most of the expensive ones you seen to be buying a brand instead of an item.

[No Mulligans]

2 minutes ago, Eack said:

Well,  I can't pass up looking at this $25 sun mountain speed cart,  but to be honest caddy tek has been an idea festering in the back of my head.  Very cheap and what I've seen made of decent quality material.  

It seems to me that most of the expensive ones you seen to be buying a brand instead of an item.

$25... If it's in good condition, I would go for that too.

[Fourputt]

1 hour ago, Eack said:

Well,  I can't pass up looking at this $25 sun mountain speed cart,  but to be honest caddy tek has been an idea festering in the back of my head.  Very cheap and what I've seen made of decent quality material.  

It seems to me that most of the expensive ones you seen to be buying a brand instead of an item.

Check the Speed Cart out carefully.  From what I know, the tendency was for the arms for the back wheels to start to splay out after some use.  I don't know if it affected performance, but it certainly wouldn't make me too confident about the overall construction.

[Eack]

6 minutes ago, Fourputt said:

Check the Speed Cart out carefully.  From what I know, the tendency was for the arms for the back wheels to start to splay out after some use.  I don't know if it affected performance, but it certainly wouldn't make me too confident about the overall construction.

Well the speed cart fell through.  But thanks for the heads up

[ScouseJohnny]

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no one with Caddy Tek experience has mentioned that they were cheaply built and broke down quickly.  Anyone?

Nothing but good things to say about my Caddytek in terms of the basic engineering - it's rock solid, has been pushed around a lot of rounds, and is holding up wonderfully, no problems to report at all. I fully expect to still be using it five years from now.

I complained a bit in the earlier post about the Caddytek foot-brake vs the Clicgear hand-brake. It's not that the Caddytek's brake is poorly made, it's just that I preferred flipping a lever on a cart handle to prodding around at a cart wheel with my foot.

I have the Caddytek Caddylite 11.5. It's worth remembering this is only an $80 (new) cart. I think it's the cheapest push cart Caddytek makes. The compromise, at that price, is certainly not the in the quality of the materials or build quality, it's simply in the fact that the cart doesn't fold down to a small size - it's very bulky, even when folded up. I couldn't care less about that, because I just take it out of my garage and toss it in the back of my beloved old Jeep Cherokee XJ, where there's tons of room for anything. If you drive a VW Beetle, it mightn't be the best purchase, however. Caddytek do make a higher range cart (EZ push), that sells for a $130 or so new, and folds down very small.

In my experience, nothing wrong at all with Caddytek. Even for only $80....

Edited March 12, 2016 by ScouseJohnny

[Eack]

Ended up picking up a click gear,  rovix I was talking to the guy at the store and it was cheaper than I thought.  He made an offer I couldn't refuse and bam took the thing home.