Bandit Motor Upgrades Engineered Inhouse by Plum Quick

Ready to Upgrade?

1. Send us your motor by reading our how to ship guide here.
2. When recieved, we will rebuild your motor (takes 5-7 business days)
3. When completed, we’ll contact you via the phone number you provided with the shipment.
4. We’ll take payment over the phone, confirm return shipping, and mail out your motor!

Why Choose the Bandit Upgrade?

The Bandit upgrade is our economical performance process, which takes the customer’s existing motor and applies our 12-point performance upgrade enhancements to increase the motor’s performance at an affordable price. We also offer new motors, which require no motor core. 

Additional Info

• How to Send Your Motor In
• How to Install your Bandit Motor
• Bandit rebuilt motors (stock upgraded motors) are not designed for Hunting carts, Off Road carts, Stretched carts, pulling heavy loads or carts running over 22” tall tires. Do you have unique performance situations? If so, look into a new high-performance electric golf cart motor!
• All stock EZ-GO DCS and PDS motors, Club Car Regen I, Regen II, Sepex/IQ, and Excel motors that are upgraded to the Bandit retain the stock field map setting.
• We don’t upgrade the following golf cart motors due to being poorly designed and/or the availability of obsolete parts: Hitachi, Fairplay,Zone, Gem, Think, Ruff/Tuff, Star, Tomberlin, FSIP, Baldor, Bad Boy Buggies, Admiral, EMP, Commander, White Lightning, No AC motors of any kind or brand; or any double End cap motor male spline or female coupler.
• Customer has 30 days to make payment of upgraded motor after we have contacted the customer that their motor is ready to ship back to them and if payment has not been made after 30 days of notification motor can be sold by Plum Quick to cover the upgrade cost.
• If customer sends in a motor Plum Quick deems to be unrepairable and/or unsuitable for upgrade the customer has 30 days after notification to have the motor sent back at their expense or the motor can be recycled by Plum Quick.
• How to Isolate the Battery Pack for Removal
  

Our Process

The Bandit process starts with a complete motor tear-down, cleaning and inspecting all parts. Motor case is stripped down to bare metal, field coils are tested and repaired if needed, field and brush studs are inspected and replaced if necessary, motor case bolt threads (rear end side bolt threads ) are inspected and chased with tap if needed, motor case bolt threads (end cap for brush rigging) are inspected and chased with tap if needed. The brush holder is inspected for cracks and or loose brush guides and replaced if necessary. The brush springs are inspected and tested for the proper tension and replaced if necessary. We install new brushes in every motor. The armature is inspected and tested for weak, lifted, or bad com bars. The commutator is machined and or polished to ensure the proper fit for the brush to commutator for max surface contact performance. The motor coupler on the armature is inspected to make sure it doesn’t have excessive wear (we don’t replace motor couplers). The armature is then high-speed balanced to ensure a smooth acceleration, no vibration at high speeds, and then a high-quality bearing is installed. Now, we build the motor back up with every part inspected, tested, cleaned, and painted. During this build-up process is when we do our trademark 12-point performance upgrade enhancements to each and every motor and date code for warranty purposes. Each and every motor is run on our custom built dyno machines before it goes to the packaging room for decals and boxing.

Box your motor up using a good quality cardboard box, add packing as to protect the motor studs from getting bent and help prevent the armature from coming out of the motor housing.

Be sure and put a note in with the motor and include the following:
Name, address, phone number and if the motor is from a Club Car Sepex/IQ cart give us the first four digits in the cart ID number as this will let us know which Bandit upgrade will perform best with your cart.

We try our best to keep the Bandit upgrade time frame just as short as we possibly can. With that being said, it all depends on our daily workload and in most cases that’s generally five business days once the motor is in our shop. We’ll call for credit card information once your motor is ready to ship back to you.

*Bandit upgrade* $399.00

Ship UPS or FedEx to:
Plum Quick Motors
8775 Henry Harris Road
Fort Mill, SC 29707

Don’t put a bumper into the Bandit motor coupler once you get it back from Plum Quick. The Bandit motor has been tested on a dyno machine and if it had a coupler bumper and/or needed a coupler bumper it was tested and determined at that point to use or not. As for installing the motor onto the rear end, wire brush the rear end output spline shaft, you can spray a light coat of white lithium grease and now slide the motor onto the rear spline shaft all the way until the motor housing bumps the rear end housing. Line up and tighten the motor bolts to secure the motor to the rear end housing.

Note: When connecting the motor cables back to the motor it is a MUST that you use two wrenches (one on the nut near the motor housing, so this nut will not turn and the second to tighten the nut that will hold the cable lug) as to not spin the motor stud during the tightening of the cable lug to the motor

Note: Motor rotation:
Once you put in your Bandit upgraded motor and it goes in forward with the switch in reverse or goes in reverse when the switch is in forward, simply switch out the S1 and S2 motor leads if it’s a series cart or if it’s a Sepex cart isolate the battery pack and switch out F1 and F2. Test drive the cart and everything should work fine. If you have issues then please give us a call @ 1-803-548-7205.

Note: High speed gears are not recommended for carts with the Bandit upgrade.

Note: Motor temperature is very important in the longevity of any motor. Plum Quick motors recommends that the customer monitors the motor temperature with an inexpensive Infrared Temperature Gun. Monitor the temperature on the painted motor case. Motor case temperature of 190 degrees F or lesss is best. Don’t operate the cart with motor temperature above 190 degrees F as this can and will break down the winding and armature shellac causing a direct ground. To perform this test you can use a cheap $20 or less Infrared Temperature Gun.

All motors are guaranteed against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from date of purchase from Plum Quick. All motors returned are subject to manufactures inspection and customer pays for shipping both ways.

Excluded from warranty are motors damaged due to the following with NO exceptions!

1. Stalling the armature (pedal depressed and wheels not turning).
2. Operating the motor under LOW or HIGH voltage conditions (running the motor on LOW battery pack or adding additional voltage to the motor).
3. Exceeding the R.P.M. limit of the motor (running FULL throttle going down steep hills, running motor with cart on jack stands and no load on the motor).
4. Prolonged HIGH amp draw (towing, hauling heavy loads, climbing steep hills or inclines).
5. Using HIGH speed gears (high amp draw).
6. Running OVER 22″ tall tires with stock controller (high amp draw).
7. No warranty on speed sensor or magnet for Sepex Motors.