My Neighbor really Sucks!

[Ozarks104]

So today i was running my all stock T-maxx (thank god) out front and my neighbor asked if he could give it a try! Sure whats the harm right? 5 mins into the run he went all ricky bobby and lost control and went right into a wooden post of a mailbox! His response? "Oh Sh*t! Sorry man! That can be fixed right?" and he walks away! Thats it! No offering to help fix or anything! Lesson learned!

Damage: Upper and Lower Arms, Shock caps and steering servo.

So all in all not that bad but still!

 

[hotrodrob]

And you actually just let him walk away Scott free[emoji54]

 

[kalib]

SMH! Our hobby is to expensive to allow folks to "have a try". I only allow other RC heads to operate my vehicles. If anyone gonna be doing some crashing it's gonna be ME!LOL

 

[Ozarks104]

Oh trust me it was hard not to say anything! My mistake! Also i just called my local hobby shop to see if they had the plastic gear in stock for the steering servo. He said "No most people just replace the whole servo?" I said why would i do that when the gear part is like $3 bucks..he was speechless..what a load of crock! bunch of thieves!

 

[hamz9561]

I've got the opposite problem. I've got the neighbors asking when I'm going to run again so they can watch...

 

[griff7373]

The best thing about living in the middle of nowhere I have no neighbors to bother me.

 

[Nitro4910]

The main reason is when most people trash the stock steering servo they upgrade to a high torque metal geared servo.
I would still order the gears, and move it to throttle/brake duties.

I think all of us have learned the hard way why you don't hand over the TX to people who have never driven a hobby grade RC before.
They either wreck it or they hold the throttle pinned the entire time.

 

[Elwood34]

What is wrong with holding the throttle pinned the whole time?? That's the only way I run.

 

[hamz9561]

Nothing if you know how to drive...

 

[WarCraft]

I've had mine for about a month or so, the first day i brought it out there had to be 20 something neighbors that were outside standing and watching. as i was running some neighbors that i havent actually meant yet slowly started to come over and small talk about the truck. well two weeks from then when i take it out there are some that will come over and automatically assume were best friends now and should let me give them a try. i explain how expensive it is to repair in some wrecks and politely say i canont hand it over unless i get atleast 50$ upfront in case the wreck and i need to repair. 95% of them end up watching and the other 5% that hand over the 50$ run it at most 50% throttle for about 5 mins and hand the tx back over and i their 50$ back. when the kids come out its a straight up no lol, but yet i will sit with my 4yr old daughter in my lap and let her play with it while my hands are on the tx still =D

 

[Greywolf74]

I treat my RCs the way I treat my 1:1...If your family I MIGHT let you drive it....maybe....unless your my brother....

 

[Woolfe]

You could always drop the bill for repair's in his letter box. If he asks you why you put it there say "sh@# sorry, I naturally thought that you wanted to be a responsible adult". I usually take a few of my cars out when bashing so I have put them all on one remote so I can't "lend" one to anyone else and if the just want a quick go I ask them if I can just do a few donuts in there car. But that never goes down well. lol

 

[ninnon]

Lesson learnt:
no matter how nice your neighbour is don't let them play with your very expensive toy.

 

[krugerw357]

Ya my bother couldn't understand why i spend so much on mt T-Maxx. I heard about it from him for 2 weeks. Well a year later I let him drive it. He ran it full throttle and i mean pinned full throttle right into a metal fence post. Shattered the front left upper and lower a arms, and drive shaft. Fond the tire 50 feet from the truck. Never ever will I let someone ever touch my toys again. Atleast he gave me $50 to help fix it.

 

[Nedly]

I had quite a few friends ruin my Traxxas Bandit back in the day, but it was a time when we were all beating on it and you could replace motors at 20$ a pop LOL... I would say we all rebuilt that one dozens of times.

I say help should be there. If someone is willing to break something and just walk away, that is not cool. I never minded my friends breaking my old Bandit because it was all of us who would fix it. And I would add that I would not hammer on someone elses truck unless I was prepared to replace the entire thing. I say that because I have had my trucks lose signal and race into traffic like a freight train. With that said, I would say I would have a hard time 'just' bombing peoples trucks around seems as so they are 400$ plus most times and there are many, many things that could go wrong.

Many people don't realize though. I have showed friends my trucks and toys and they never recognize the value because they are not in the hobby. Believe it or not, most people will view a nitro truck as 'some little r/c toy', and would not consider hundreds of dollars into it.

And you think that is bad, never let anyone fly your planes or helis unless they know how to! That is a instant, guarantee crash every time. Even worse, you crash some good sized CP helicopter and it is totaled, period....