What was your worst RC car ever?

[Isky]

What would be the car you had the most problems with? My 2nd car in the hobby, RC10T3 Factory Team edition had a shock shaft that was too short, and the shock O-rings were too big. The car also breaks every time i run it...amazing...right now its in a deep dark corner of my room. well, hopefully my 3000mah batts will servive 3 weeks without use...

[broken_parts]

mrc mt10-s it broke down every time , but then i got a rustler and now a pede.

[old phart]

My first car, about 1975. Was an Associated 1/8 gas car with a Veco .19 and it would never run well for long. Didn't have dedicated car engines back then and no heat sink heads. No suspension, just steering and a straight rear axle with a gear.

[TRXboy]

Worst car....hmmmmmm....Ill get back to you on that one.

[BadRacer]

My old MRC Ironman, seemed like everytime i put the batt in it cost more and more money for the little things that add up.

Man did that truck bring me joy? Nope....i almost got out of the hobby..but im glad i didn't. My friend has the Ironwimp now and has had no problems, go figure!

Now i have a XXXT and FT B3 and im very happy!

[Fergy]

HPI Nitro Rush and HPI RS4 MT. I will not own another HPI R\C.

[morfeeis]

Originally posted by Fergy:
HPI Nitro Rush and HPI RS4 MT. I will not own another HPI R\C.

what is wrong with them i have heard alot of good things about them

[Fergy]

The Rushes motor is really finicky to the point of frustrating. The RS4 MT is really quite fragil. It breaks far too easily in my oppinion. First it was the right suspension arm twice, then the frame between both front arms where it narrows. I have a Kyosho Wild Ram (nitro) that has yet to break or refuse to start or sease on me. And a Tamiya Baja Champ that with hop ups refuses to break after much worse crashes than the HPI. I would rather forsake a little speed for durability.

[PERNOD]

my worst car wasnt all that bad but the losi jrt would strip out the rear wheels all the time.and it never steered right,and now i have to re tighten the diff all the time.

[LatexMantus]

The old Tamiya Blackfoot. I got a lemon that was always breaking in one way or another.

[tadium54]

ANYTHING FROM TYCO!!! Except maybe a few of their earlier ones. I ve fried several of them and i wasn't even doing anything that bad! http://www.rccaraction.com/ubb/smile.gif http://www.rccaraction.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[DavidL]

Kyosho Pro XRT. My first R/C so I didn't drive that well, but the front arms and bulkhead broke every time I hit anything. 4 months after I got it the store couldn't get any more front arms. Kyosho stopped making them and was working on a stronger version. It took ten months before Kyosho released the new arm. Got frustrated enough six months into the wait that I picked up a Losi XX.

[atm92484]

My worst is probably the NMT but that doesn't mean its a bad truck. It shares a garage with 2 Associateds (FT GT and NDS with a ton of hop-ups.) I think that says enough.

[JoeTheShmoe]

Mine was a kyosho Sandmaster MKII. I had it when i was younger, so i didnt know alot about enigne maintenece and stuff, so when the nitro engine died i got rid of it. I then went to electrics, and have had little problems. I am just now getting back into nitro stuff.

[timesheet]

Tamiya Falcon (around 1986-87 I think). Not that it was all that bad, I just had problems keeping the rear end from exploding every time I tried to jump it. This probably had a lot more to do with my job of assembling it than the design. Then I fried the MSC with a hot motor (I don't remember exactly what motor it was but it was a Trinity) so it just sat around and eventually disappeared. This was my last R/C acquisition until a couple years ago. I guess this shows what a bad experience can do!

[HauntedMyst]

Hands down it would have to be the HPI MT. Thats not to say it's a bad truck, but they advertize it as being verry tough and durable and the thing breaks if you breath on it wrong. It's really much better suited to the race track.

Worst R/C product ever though, anything by Trinity.

[Mark98SS]

old phart, was it an RC100? Those were great cars in their time. I had a Heathkit 1/8th gas car around '72 & it was terrible. The one or two times it did run I hit curbs pretty fast. Had a scrub brake on the clutch bell, wouldn't stop at all.

[FilthyPierre]

Without a doubt, the Tamiya Super Hornet. This POS has front tie rods that bend if you look at them, a rigid rear axle with flimsy springs that broke on its first run, and horizontal rear shocks that are only there for show. Run this baby on a flat piece of road and it runs ok. Run it on dirt and even the smallest of bumps in the track will have it jumping around all over the place to the point of being uncontrollable. Gas it and it will flip.
I spent many a long hour trying to get that rear end to stay down - softer shock oil, lead weights, even devising an insert to replace the aforementioned flimsy springs to keep the axle from flapping around, all to no avail.
I gave it to my 2-year-old and went out and bought a XXX. There's no comparison.

[old phart]

Mark98SS, that number sounds familiar. I know it was the good car of it's day, but I was a budget modeller and couldn't afford all it needed I guess. As I recall, the brake was a brass strip that wrapped around the flywheel, and it was activated by a pull rod. The car ran OK with the body off, but with the body on it overheated too much.

[Fergy]

HauntedMyst, I'm with ya buddy.

[chance]

My worst? Well, I guess it's like something else...it was just wonderful.

[TRXboy]

Kyosho QRC series...EWWWWWWWW!!!

[Racer2racer]

Worst car i ever had was a nitro rustler. I never drove it one time without something going wrong.

[Racer2racer]

Fergy, theres nothing wrong with HPI.

[tc3guy]

I can't say the B3 is bad but I had so many problems with it I just went crazy. It wasn't actually the car it was mostley the electronics. first the battery was shorting out every now and then since it had been pulled on so many times. It wouldn't work and I couldn't figure out why. So I took it to the hobby shop but it turns out I brought the wrong battery so they said nothing was wrong with it so i felt pretty embarassed. but I finally figured out why it wasn't working. Then this winter it was real cold out and I had a fully charged battery. After a few minutes the darn thing just shut off http://www.rccaraction.com/ubb/mad.gif and that was the last time I ran it becuase I had a touring car that was working so that was the end of it http://www.rccaraction.com/ubb/frown.gif.

[J mAn]

tamiya grasshper, well it wasn't actualy mine but my friend dindn't have the equipment to run it so it has been siting in my garage. The car has the worst suspention ever and those poor excusese for turn buckles (they're actualy servo likage rods!) always bend. The toe-in is hard to change, you have to bend the servo linkage rods to do it. i don't think i have ever ran it without breaking something