This weekend my son and I attended a RC Touring Car Competition, I had some issues with my car and was very busy fixing and adjusting setup between the races. So just before a races I rushed making my car ready and connected the battery in the wrong order (plus to minus) and blew up the ESC...
Thats's quite a story you got there, I hope I don't get so unlucky with my 1/6 petrol. But going from a 1/10 to those monsters are quite a change, getting hit by a 1/10 hurts some, some getting hit by a large scale hurts a lot more and. And then you put in the crap 2wd brakes, you really need to...
I had one of the old 2wd Vorteks, stock that was pretty crap. After first 5 min of very light bashing it was already broken, it brokes several times until a lot of parts were upgraded - then it became pretty durable but still hard to control. It ended up being replaced by a Traxxas Rustler 2wd...
My biggest mistake was when I first got into this hobby and started out with cheap HBX and Xinglehong cars, and spent way too many money on repairing and upgrading them. It was much cheaper to just buy a quality car. I do buy cheap WLToys cars now, they are much better quality but I never...