Your Top 10 Pet Peeves in second-hand R/C cars

[Lowgear]

Heres a pet peeve thats been bothering me lately.

Giving in and spending the extra money for the NIP part only for it to be in the same condition as a used one. That seems to constantly happen.

[mamba max1]

Blurry pictures really drive me crazy. C'mon, can't you tell it looks like a blob?

[EvolutionRevolution]

Blurry pictures really drive me crazy. C'mon, can't you tell it looks like a blob?

Oh come on, you should know that that manual that comes with your digital camera (and explains how to use the "macro"- and "focus"-functions) is just a piece of waste that should be thrown out as quickly as possible!

[GAMMACRUSH]

Pet hair everywhere it could possibly stick. It usually sticks around the shocks, tranny and axle where the oil/grease is.

[Tomas Karlsson]

Delaminated carbon fiber chassis! Oh yeah a new twelvescale to the collection, o no the chassis is crap as usual, three cars in a month! Hate it!

[tommykart]

I only have one...or two.


What's up with all the otherwise would-be clean classic RC10 pans that have been ruined by some lazy-ass moron that can't figure out how to adjust a steering servo?

Really?.. Is it easier to drill a friggin' hole in the side of the thing other than to turn a screw driver & allen wrench?

Or; the Billy-Bob red necks' that figure that by hoggiing out a 1/8th of an once of aluminum out of the chassis (and making a mobile cheese grater) makes it go faster and keep up with those who can actually drive...?

now i know what that hole in the side of the pan i see so much of on epay what an act of blasphemy

[bxlt]

I have to give my $.02. My biggest pet peeve is shipping charges. I can over look most of the other issues understanding I am buying used RC cars and I was rough on my cars as a kid. I'm not happy when I get what is suppose to be a runner and find out it is far from it but what I can't stand is shipping charges. Right now there is a Schumacher cat on eBay car only nothing else and the guy wants $40 to ship it. It can't weigh over 3lbs boxed weight. I could ups over night it for that price. I totally understand adding a couple of bucks to the s&h to cover expenses but reall $40?

It reminds me of a car I bought on eBay $10.90 s&h which wasn't too bad. But when it arrived the shipping label showed that he paid $4.90 and it was still sent postage due!!!!!

[vintage AE]

- Super-glue on both beads of tires

Is it the super glue and not hobby grade glue that bothers you Dave, or both beads?

I've never seen a tire with only one bead glued

If you only have one glued, don't you risk the other bead slipping out?

[shodog]

Reading over these posts just illustrates why new parts command such a premium over mint used ones

Pet peeves for me are

lame packaging that causes damage to the shipment. Recently bought a fairing set for my motorcycle only to recieve a scratched tank cover because they didn't use enough foam to protect the parts from each other in the box. The replacement tank cover doesn't even look as nice as the first one they sent

Overpriced shipping and bastards that don't combine shipping on multiple auctions. I bought some MTB rims, spokes and nipples from the same seller. All three came in different packages on different days

Absolute lies in the description. I recently bought some XTR MTB shifters where the left shifter was bent and couldn't operate through its full range.

[tommykart]

fasteners that are tightened in plastic to the point of stripping out the hole they go into.

[Lowgear]

Misaligned body mount holes!

Getting a professionally painted body secondhand only to find out the body mount holes are all off is disheartening. Apparently this must be a normal thing as I've found it to be commonplace. The issue seems to be caused by not being able to accurately see where to make the holes due to the body no longer being clear. If you screw up making the front holes, you have to follow suit by putting the rear ones in the wrong place or vice versa.

As I understand it, painters don't like you making the holes or trimming anything before you send them the body. Trimming things I can understand but what are four little holes going to hurt? I know some will trim and mount the body for you if you send along the chassis as well but you run the risk of having things lost, damaged, or stolen that way. What are the tricks used to trim and mount a body after already being painted? I remember seeing one product out there that are caps for your body posts that contain LEDs. You install them and then set your body down and the LEDs shine through to give you an indicator of where the posts are. You then position the body where it's supposed to be and mark the spot with a marker or something.

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[discgolfer72]

i buy used expecting junk

but my biggest pet peve is sthe stupid ebay sellers with over priced shipping
there is like 10 auctions now for rc 10 parts

come on 10$ to ship a 6 gear trans
15$ for a set of narrow fron truck wheels

the sad part is its a member here doing it

im also looking for some 400k pots for the arcades i build
i can buy 600 of them for a descent price
thn i see the shipping is 5 times higher than what i could go to crap shack and buy them 1x1
it used to make sence when ebay was charging their % on just the sale price but now its the entire payment tat their % is taken from

[Coelacanth]

i buy used expecting junk

but my biggest pet peve is sthe stupid ebay sellers with over priced shipping
there is like 10 auctions now for rc 10 parts

come on 10$ to ship a 6 gear trans
15$ for a set of narrow fron truck wheels

the sad part is its a member here doing it

What's even more annoying, from a Canadian perspective, are American sellers who aren't aware of the option to ship USPS First Class for any item that can fit in a small box that weighs under 4 pounds. I keep getting quoted shipping costs of $15 - 20+ on tiny items like a few gears or a 540-sized motor when the USPS website clearly shows First Class as an option--for about 8 or 9 bucks. Sorry, I'm *not* interested in tracking & insurance on an item that costs less than $30 friggin' bucks that more than doubles the shipping cost.

[markbt73]

I'll add one, since I just came across it for the umpteenth time: cars built by people who didn't bother to trim the flashing off the parts when they built it! Seriously, you spend $150 or so on this thing, take hours to assemble it, and don't even clean up the parts as you go? So 25 years later, I have to do it?

I guess it does make it one step closer to building it from new, but come on...

[Coelacanth]

I'll add one, since I just came across it for the umpteenth time: cars built by people who didn't bother to trim the flashing off the parts when they built it! Seriously, you spend $150 or so on this thing, take hours to assemble it, and don't even clean up the parts as you go? So 25 years later, I have to do it?

I guess it does make it one step closer to building it from new, but come on...

That's a good one, Mark...I was thinking that only the other day, coincidentally! Gotta love those ball-ends with the 1mm-long hunk of jagged plastic sticking off the end.