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Is the HPI really that much better than a T Maxx??

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Is the HPI Savage really that much better than a T Maxx??

I bought a T Maxx last week and I've had nothin but trouble. (fouled 7 plugs, couldnt get it to idle, dies all the time, floods alot etc. I sold the truck today and was thinkin hard about buying a HPI Savage. Are they really that much better than a Maxx? Id rather be drivin the thing more than tuning all the time . Any help appreciated.
 
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well i had a maxx and after about a couple months of nothin but trouble i finally sold it and bought my bros buggy. By this time i knew and had learned tons on this site and all cuz of all of the troubles the maxx gave me. So yes the savage is 100% better than a maxx in that its alot more durable, and holds a tune alot better. So yes a savage is a great choice the only flaw that iv herd of so far that hpi hasnt fixed is the shocks hitting the header but in my openion I'm sure thats not hard to fix at all. So for any rc you have to know what your doing and know how to tune, but hpi really makes it alot easier.
 
IMO, yes they are. I have had three T-maxxes at once, BEFORE the Savage came out. Now I have one of each and I can honestly say the Savage is a much better truck right out of the box.
 
I don't own a Savage, but in the almost year I've been on this forum I think I remember seeing one person say a T-Maxx was better than a Savage. And maybe 2,000 say a Savage is better.

As I said in your other thread, in the year I had my savage I broke one suspension arm and one upright, nothing else. Best truck out there IMO.
 
Let me throw in my 2 cents, I have also have both the tmaxx and the Savage, tmaxx doesn’t get much use anymore simply because I know if I use it something is gonna go wrong, I had my tmaxx for almost a year before getting my savage, in that year I spent a butt load of money keeping the savage running, upgrading and replacing parts all the time and yet something else would break or go wrong, and one thing I have read here and experienced my self, you can spend double what the savage costs on a maxx and still not make it as tough and durable as the sav, a couple months ago I took my sav to a skate park and missed the ramp I was aiming for and ran full speed into pillar, I thought I had major damage but once I looked it over I found both tvp were a little bent, a few taps of a hammer and shes good as new, I wouldn’t want that to happen again but its nice to know if it does your not going to have too much damage, I can't imagine the damage a maxx would have after something like that.
 
my maxx is sitting in the corner broke down. my new savage is too but it's because i pulled the pull start cord to far. 4.6engine = tons of compression. i only had the t-maxx for a month bought it for $150, and ended up putting another $75 in it since january and it's still broke down. go figure.
 
i had my maxx for about three months before i put it on the shelf. probably only ran a half gallon of gas through it but still put like $650 into it all together, and it is still basically stock!!! all the money i put into it were replacing parts that broke. (bulkheads, a arms, shocks, diffs, etc..) so all the maxx really is is a money guzzler. my friend got the savage and every time we drove the trucks his would make it through the day and be ready for more.
 

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