Saw this and didn't think it was a bad price for the speed and with free postage
16 comments
yugsmacnugs
5 May 17#15
I got this £42 last week from Europe warehouse (1-3day shipping)
Confused now, i thought £40 was the regular price
hukd_addict
4 May 17#14
guys and girls, can anyone please help me?
I bought and self built a subaru impreza rc car back in the day, and I got it out the loft to have a mess around with the dog, but the transmitter doesn't work anymore, some batteries leaked. How would I start going about repairing it? I assume I would needa new transmitter and uh... a gizmo to put on the car? Please help.
mastablasta
4 May 17#13
That would have been nicad and not lipo?
brennando
4 May 17#12
You can get one of these on eBay for just over £43. You will need to upgrade the pinion and drive gear cogs as they wear out pretty quickly but are relatively cheap as are all the parts but it's still a good quick little car for the money.
Has anyone watched the video on the website? one of the wheels falls off!
oOKmanOo to theleedslads
4 May 171#9
Yes, I did enjoy that part. Also the part where he says 'every time I run this car something breaks'.
john757
4 May 171#7
Have had one for about a year now and still love it, as do my kids. Amazing value imo. These are a lot faster than your normal toy grade rc car. Spares are available on Amazon Gearbest bangood eBay and nitrotek. Plenty of upgrade parts too. This is beginner hobby grade so don't be afraid of taking the car apart and putting back together. There is a forum somewhere with a thread covering these wltoys a9*9 series cars, there's about 3 or 4 models which pretty much use the same parts apart from different wheels and shell. They are interchangeable between models however if you fancy changing the style.
clsss
4 May 171#6
all I would say is check what its like to get spare parts... I bought a Chinese made nitro car a few gears ago, one small accident and no way to obtain spares, whole car worthless... much better paying for Tamiya or the like, quality over cheap.
yugsmacnugs to clsss
5 May 17#16
They sell spares on there website and many others such as banggood
I got this car recently its great, dont compare some random rc car to some completely different car in 2017
Mo786
4 May 17#5
this looks pretty decent for the price!
Dudeguy
3 May 172#4
Gearbest is pretty hit & miss though. Delivery might take a week, might take a month, might take eternity.
WheresMeNuts to Dudeguy
4 May 17#11
They take the money from your bank account even when the item is not in stock.3-4 weeks later I asked them why it had not been delivered yet & they said they are expecting a new shipment in.Now 5 weeks later & still no item.
crazymonkey
3 May 17#3
Must still have a stock pile of those batteries left :wink:
Some issues with ESC failing
Gears/diffs can get dirt in so will fail
Replacement (aluminium) parts available
On a side note, 20-odd years ago I had a Tamiya Manta Ray that had a 1200mAh 7.2V battery, the thread talks about this having 1100 upgradeable to 1200, where's the progress in batteries? :neutral_face:
Opening post
16 comments
Confused now, i thought £40 was the regular price
I bought and self built a subaru impreza rc car back in the day, and I got it out the loft to have a mess around with the dog, but the transmitter doesn't work anymore, some batteries leaked. How would I start going about repairing it? I assume I would needa new transmitter and uh... a gizmo to put on the car? Please help.
I got this car recently its great, dont compare some random rc car to some completely different car in 2017
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2115515-Wltoys-1-18-scale-A959-A969-and-A979-RC-trucks/
To note:
Some issues with ESC failing
Gears/diffs can get dirt in so will fail
Replacement (aluminium) parts available
On a side note, 20-odd years ago I had a Tamiya Manta Ray that had a 1200mAh 7.2V battery, the thread talks about this having 1100 upgradeable to 1200, where's the progress in batteries? :neutral_face: