ORIGINAL: Night_Train
i've been in the hobby for a while,.so im pretty much well seasoned. I have a collection of nitros, from hpi, ofna and traxxas. and this redcat is falling way short. yes i understand they are lower end rcs but when you do all the upgrades they get up there in durability. my traxxas rustler is bone stock, and you would not believe the crap it has been through, and its always ready to go,
Asfar as the nylon nut, it wasonly used one time. and im not a big fan of using loctiteon an m3 thread when your already using a nyloc nut.
I totally agree and your right 100% there is alot of up keep and headaches when in this hobby. Butthere is always a point that you will get to when you say enough is enough! and start considering spending it on another brand than keep dropping it on something that might be a lost cause, I honestly dont evenhave a whole quart of fuelran through this buggy yet! Next time your at Ed's ask him if he carries any parts for these redcats and see what he says lol or pretty much anyone else around here that is reputable when dealing or working onnitros.Im either having to make my own parts or wait a week and a half to get them from A.Z.
I can see your point and I will agree there's many post's on here just like your's. Maybe you just got a bad car or had some bad luck. I guess with the two Redcats we have in the house "four with the sumo's" we've been lucky. I've had no out of the ordinary problems with our Redcats.
This actually played a part in me ordering a Monsoon last week. As you know our local shop is a Traxxas dealer. I was considering a Revo simply because I'm tired of having to order a $3.00 part everytime I need one. I'm getting quite a large stock of Redcat parts but it's always that one you don't have that you need. Anyway Savage was what I wanted but again, no parts locally. I was considering buying a Traxxas Revo which retailed for $560 compared to the Savage which was $460 just so I could run over to our LHS for parts. But after thinking about it for a few days I considered my experience with my two Redcats and for what I wound up spending bought me a new 8th scale truggy plus tons of extra parts.
I like Ed's but I've said before that Redcat gave me the opportunity to get back into this hobby with my son at an affordable price. I wouldn't have been able to go in and buy two Traxxas nitro trucks plus eveything else you need to go with it.
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