ORIGINAL: phmaximus
ok I understand u have had a bad run, But was that the only one u owned?
does it happen to every spartan??
I get a bit worried when people start bagging a product after only owning one, Its just there are heaps of experts out there giving it great reviews???
Allso whats wrong with ABS plastic???? its one of the most durable plastics????
I cant understand why U dont like it??? motor bikes use it for flearing, cars use it for bumpers/crash zones, plumbers pipe, computer keyboards, airsoft guns, Power tools, computer tablets, LEGO, out door radios, iphone covers, ipod, joysticks, tide on toys etc etc....
So if not ABS what??? wood? fiberglass?
1)Wonders why insurance companies wont use fiberglass or wood replacement bumpers... or how come 99.9% of real cars dont use fiberglass for front bumpers
2)IMO dont belive everything on forums, according to forums the HPI E10 is crap, ive got one that can easly out drift the average Sprint 2, and i haveent had anything brake on it in nearly 4 years...
3)Like I say to anyone, the first thing to do with new R/C's pull them down & rebuild it with love, but then again ive seen people completly ruin simple things like glueing on tyres or setting gearmesh....
hope we can debat this and reach a outcome, personally i know nothing about the spartan, im just trying to wein out the BS
1) UH, you cannot compare autos to boats like that... and what are full size boats made of??? [:-]
2) well anything bad about this boat is deleted on the traxxas forums... and many members have been band or warned for posting the truth! not good for the first time boaters
3) well that's fine, but this sunk spartan is a RTR and was made to just plug in your lipos and hit the lakes...
this boat was all marketing hype... it was a disaster in the begining, and for many has put a bad taste in their mouths about traxxas.. specially how they reacted and treated their very own customers who bought this sunk boat and said the issues the boat was having was user error...
even the name in the start was wrong.. traxxas lost money even before they released it to the public, they had to rename the thing
plus the addvertised speed claims was the hardest thing to attain on the first run of boats.. most all of them burned up trying to hit those speeds