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ORIGINAL: gwismos

<div>this guy had a problem with the pinion after 20 seconds on his XS</div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1zm_Usuvg

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ORIGINAL: ZeroGrave

1st post for me hoping to make many more.

Hey, I'm looking into getting one of these... Well one of something anyways. This little monster has caught my eye though. I am new to hobby grade RCs but am somewhat of a research nut when it comes to things that peak my interest. I have spent the greater part of the last week looking over consumer reports reviews on all sorts of different trucks (I refuse to do cars that cant run off road, I mean whats the point you cant really bash or jump them so totally useless)) My interest for now is in smaller scale trucks/truggies. Looking for something that a to the hobby can handle has a good enough ground clearance to do some off-roading with. Small enough to hopefully run around the yard when I can't get out somewhere for it. Anyways to drill down to the bedrock of what I'm saying I had a few questions I hope you can answer after driving this around a while.

How well does it handle?

Hows it's durability. (Can I put the 3s lipo and jump it 20ft in the air without destroying the entire thing. Just some of it ;) )

Traxxas cars like the 1/16 E-revo vxl can run two batteries in parallel for longer run times can you do that with this truck? (Like I said I'm new I don't know if that Esc that would allow or disallow this or if it matters for parallel. I'm not looking to go nuts with the power(doing series) just get a killer run time.)

Last thing is have any suggestions or recomendations for where to start. What car (preferably in a smaller scale) would be good. I mentioned the 1/16 e-revo it seems pretty solid from everything I've looked into I'm not to sure on its ground clearance peoples say it has trouble in grass which will probably be a bit part of where I drive.

Thanks for any help you can give me. One more side note. I have no idea if there even tracks around me there isnt even a hobby around me have to go to the next city... Ironically every city around me has one just not mine.

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ORIGINAL: gwismos

<div>this guy had a problem with the pinion after 20 seconds on his XS</div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR1zm_Usuvg

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ORIGINAL: t9dragon


Looks like a beginner.. I go thru the truck and double check all the screws and make sure they are nice and tight. I also use threadlock on the set screw for the pinion to keep that from happening.

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ORIGINAL: TheKennyKiller


are you trying to tell me that it is his fault for taking a RTR out of the box and running it straight away... you can see in the video that the gear takes up just before it stops working and before that it is obviously not going as fast as it should... I do find it a little strange how he seems to know exactly what is wrong with the truck without even taking the body off on his first run and the fact he said it belonged to his neighbour (who lets someone else drive their new truck for the first time) so they probably found a problem with the truck out of the box and than filmed it as if it was the first run so they would have the video as some kind of proof that it was not their fault, the truck does look very new and clean so I doubt they did any bashing or anything to cause it... I understand the last thing anyone in this thread wants to see is this kind of thing while you're all waiting for your trucks to arrive but unfortunately the problem or lemons will probably be the first to make it on to youtube because everyone else will be to busy enjoying them to even be bothered filming it.

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ORIGINAL: ZeroGrave

1st post for me hoping to make many more.

Hey, I'm looking into getting one of these... Well one of something anyways. This little monster has caught my eye though. I am new to hobby grade RCs but am somewhat of a research nut when it comes to things that peak my interest. I have spent the greater part of the last week looking over consumer reports reviews on all sorts of different trucks (I refuse to do cars that cant run off road, I mean whats the point you cant really bash or jump them so totally useless)) My interest for now is in smaller scale trucks/truggies. Looking for something that a to the hobby can handle has a good enough ground clearance to do some off-roading with. Small enough to hopefully run around the yard when I can't get out somewhere for it. Anyways to drill down to the bedrock of what I'm saying I had a few questions I hope you can answer after driving this around a while.

How well does it handle?

Hows it's durability. (Can I put the 3s lipo and jump it 20ft in the air without destroying the entire thing. Just some of it ;) )

Traxxas cars like the 1/16 E-revo vxl can run two batteries in parallel for longer run times can you do that with this truck? (Like I said I'm new I don't know if that Esc that would allow or disallow this or if it matters for parallel. I'm not looking to go nuts with the power(doing series) just get a killer run time.)

Last thing is have any suggestions or recomendations for where to start. What car (preferably in a smaller scale) would be good. I mentioned the 1/16 e-revo it seems pretty solid from everything I've looked into I'm not to sure on its ground clearance peoples say it has trouble in grass which will probably be a bit part of where I drive.

Thanks for any help you can give me. One more side note. I have no idea if there even tracks around me there isnt even a hobby around me have to go to the next city... Ironically every city around me has one just not mine.

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ORIGINAL: t9dragon


Where did I say it was his fault.

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ORIGINAL: JUSTPASSEDU

I highly disagree with your statement as most Rtr trucks , cars ect. All need to have there parts locktighted before running. Especially the pinions. This happens prob 75% of the time with a new Rtr.

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ORIGINAL: TheKennyKiller


not trying to start an argument here but you may have implied it and as long as we are splitting hairs all I did was ask you if you were telling me you thought it was his fault.

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ORIGINAL: JP38

So far I've ran two packs on my XS and so far I've had no issues. The truck does look like it will be a little difficult to work on-but do not really know for sure until I take it apart. The truck is very fast on 2s and definitely has the feel of it's big brother. It would have been nice if HPI included a wheelie bar as it certainly needs one. The battery compartment is actually quite large and I needed to use the included foam strip to keep the 2s 6000 mah pack secure and without, the pack moves too freely inside. HPI has a winner on their hands, imo!

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ORIGINAL: JP38

So far I've ran two packs on my XS and so far I've had no issues. The truck does look like it will be a little difficult to work on-but do not really know for sure until I take it apart. The truck is very fast on 2s and definitely has the feel of it's big brother. It would have been nice if HPI included a wheelie bar as it certainly needs one. The battery compartment is actually quite large and I needed to use the included foam strip to keep the 2s 6000 mah pack secure and without, the pack moves too freely inside. HPI has a winner on their hands, imo!

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ORIGINAL: t9dragon


What are the dimensions of the battery you are using?

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ORIGINAL: TheKennyKiller


I have two questions.
Did you use loctite on the pinion ?
Does it mention in the manual that loctite is needed on the pinion before running ?

if you answer yes to either of them I will stfu

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