Hey RCGirl long time no see
Finally got mine all tuned up and within the last 4 days I've broke it 3 times lol. Anyways, my batts started crapping out on me yesterday and I noticed very sluggish turning as well as throttle and breaking. I'd say just turn the truck on but don't start it and check to see how fast everything is moving. It'll be a night and day difference when you have fresh batts in there. I actually had mine starting to glitch today and I was like *** it's never done this before. I was sitting just a couple feet from my buddy with his RC but they've never done that together before. Come to find out the little 8 year old neighbor kid wanted to bring his radio shack car out and it totally screwed with my electronics. That was a tense moment...I'd really hate to see my 300+ dollar investment be smashed into a curb at full throttle cuz the kid next door wanted to play with his 20 dollar toy! Failsafe is a must!