Broke 5 minutes into 1st battery
By Jordan T on January 5, 2019   Verified Purchase

I grew up with many RC cars. Traxxas, Kyosho, Losi, Team Associated, I had them all. My last car was a nitro rustler when I was 16. I ran that car for several years with very little problems. rnFast forward to today. I’m 33, I fly drones but miss my old rc cars so I bought a new Traxxas Ruster VXl 3s. I went home, read the manual, charged the battery, put it in trainer mode and took it out to an empty parking lot. After 3 minutes I put it in regular mode and 2 minutes later the transmission melted down and locked solid. Ended up needing a whole new transmission after 5 minutes of mellow runtime. At that point I looked at axle shafts, steering linkages, and suspension components, many of which were already showing significant wear. I remembered back to the old days with my nitro rustler and how I abused it as a teenager and never had issues like this. I was pretty bummed that this $400 setup was already falling apart on me after not even half a battery of runtime. I get that RC stuff breaks and I’m fine with that but this has been a disappointment compared to the years of fun I got out of the nitro version. I would like to thank Vortex Hobbies though for taking care of me and trying to make it right. Traxxas has just cheapened these cars as much as they can.

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 Great car for the price.
By Zack H on January 21, 2019   Verified Purchase

Really great vehicle so far. Reasonable price as well.

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 LOVE TRAXXAS
By Justin M on March 4, 2019   Verified Purchase

SUPER FUN TRUCK!

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