Hey guys here's a story for you all that is a testament to the quality of traxxas IMHO. was out camping this weekend, and yesterday was running my slayer in a huge grass lot by a reservoir in california. was havin a blast when I experience a truly epic failure of my DX3S system's built in failsafe. was having fun launching off a small embankment about 300 yards away from the reservoir, when the radio signal just crapped for no reason, and the slayer went WOT straight into the lake. it skipped like a rock about 15 yards out and sank to the bottom . I about crapped my drawers figuring it was toast since I had been running it for a solid 45 minutes up hills down hills jumping and bashing & engine was at temp. I threw my shoes and socks off and waded out to retrieve the vehicle, and was certain it was toast, electronics fried, and engine case cracked or at least jacked internally. as soon as I pulled it out I switched of the power to stop the servos from glitching. I then took it back to the camp and began disassembling EVERYTHING. dumped all the water out of the exhaust and felt sooo defeated and irritated by the failure of my expensive spektrum setup that is designed to specifically NOT allow this sort of thing to happen.

I took apart the servos, and disconnected the SR3300T receiver and put them in the sun, then disconnected the muffler and drained the water out as best I could from the engine which was seized up. I them pulled the glowplug, and dumped the water out of the chamber, and then was able to turn the motor by hand. let it sit awhile like that then said F-@# it and used the strter wand which amazingly worked to turn the EZ-start motor, and proceeded to blow all the wayer out of the top of the engine. I then plugged the glowplug hole and blew abuch more water out f the exhaust from the crankcase. then let it all sit in the sun for 45 minutes until it all looked dried out.

now came the impressve part, I reconnected the receiver to the servos and was extremely surprised to see that they were both working, meaning the receiver was fine also. I started reassemblign the truck, and after using a glow starter to dry the plug found it was fine also, then the real test, I put the plug back into the engine, and connected the ez-starter, and bam it fired right up. I couldn't believe it!

I then reassembled my epic beadlocks after the foams were dryed out, and slapped the wheels back on figurring here is where it goes to crap. as soon as a load is put on it it is gonna blow up, but no it runs just as good as ever.

Now I am truly impressed! I have heard tons of horror stories about bad enounters with puddles, etc. and how cars were totally ruined from just that, but here I had my slayer take a brief tour as a submarine, and it LIVED! truly amazing if you ask me! and lucky on my part! Traxxas definately earned a new level of respect with me after this experience by a mile!

I also have to admit that the SPektrum electronics DID impress me after working even though they had been completely submerged with power running to the receiver!

I also am impressed that the servos worked just fine after hearing soooo many people bag on traxxas servos.

This just shows that despite it's lack of popularity the Slayer is definately a helluva vehicle! and I would definately recommend it to anyone who is thinking about one!

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