templeofspeed wrote:Why not? Do the Team kit...if he's a good driver, as you say, it should be an awesome father/son deal. Dig up some older stock motors and learn him about brushes, oiling bushings, etc while you're at it. If it was a few years from now there
wouldn't be any brushed motors to learn about...
Good dad!
I like the building part myself but if your kid is like mine he has the attention span of a nat! I went RTR with him last year with an XTM. Its not the best truck or brand but he beat the hell out of it and didn't break anything other than gears in trans kept going out. I had to rebulid the trans 4 times cuz the gears are crap also had an ESC problem within 3 months.The bad part is parts can only be had at hobby people, or a place that carries the XTM. He's now playing with a T2 and the only thing he has broken is the ball cups for steering linkage, guess I made the ramp to high.
If your son has the patience to sit there and do it then I'd go with a kit. Other wise I'd go RTR and let him fix it as it breaks with you supervising until he gets it. This is what I have been doing with my boy cuz he can't sit still long enough and gets bored easily. Good luck with it though neat present for him to have one of his own.
