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Old 05-24-2012 | 05:13 PM
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Default RE: Monsoon XTR


ORIGINAL: MaddMark

[img][/img]More updates on the Monsoon xtr please.
Mine will be here Tuesday !!!!
I love it so far. There have been some broken parts that I felt broke too easily. While doing some ramp jumping I broke the rear lower control arm brace. It was a bad landing and expected. I was surprised though to find two teeth sheered clean off the steal spur gear. The metal it was made out of looks pretty weak. Then while trying to move an immovable object with the front wheel, the front suspension pivot bolt snapped clean off. Again, I would have expected the front knuckle or control arm to break since its plastic, but it seems like its the metal parts you need to be more concerned about. The center dog bones were starting to slice up the front and rear diff cups from the torque, so I replaced them with the CVD's from Redcat. I'm not complaining about these issues which I consider minor, I was just surprised that the metal appears to be the weakness on this model and not the plastic. For the price I think it's more than worth the money for what you get. You really won't find anything out there this size even close to this price range.