thanks. I bought the covers because they were only like 7 bucks. They work. My local track is real loamy and the rest of the car is usually a mess but the shafts stay pretty clean. I even ran in a muddy track in NJ when I was there and they still stayed clean. The first car was a RTR it was a great car then a parking lot runaway into a curb full speed of course everthing bent so i rebuilt it as a FTE+ a little. So including the cost of the RTR you are looking at about a $1600 buggy. My wife loves that RC is so inexpensive.[>:] That is what I told her before I bought the Jammin. [}]