Just wanted to share my bad news...

Well I bought a crt .5 for Christmas. It is crispy new and I love the look of its quality parts. I say "look" b/c thats all I have done with it is look at it on my shelf.

The first time I hooked my MM to it I was pleasantly surprised that I must have messed up the esc/motor last time I had it hooked up to my T4... shattered a cvd, reason to the upgrade to the CRT.5. I was getting alot of heat while coasting around the house and knew something was wrong. When I called to my dismay my warranty was expired by two weeks. When I spoke to castle they said to send it in and they would take a looksy. The incredible staff at Castle took a look and said the motor was toast and the ESC can be fixed. I waited a couple weeks and when I called back they told me that the new motors arrived today and they packaged up my repaired esc and sent a NIB 5700 motor that day. Wow they did not even charge me the $50 EACH replacement/repair charge as they said they would. I was thrilled to say the least.

So things have been busy for me and a week or so later I finally tonight got a chance to hook back up the motor. I wired everything in and all seemed well. When I first lightly pulled the trigger it came to life. But when I set it down I noticed that the throttle was reversed. No biggie. When corrected I noticed that I had much more throttle in reverse then forward. So I said hmmm that seems weird. I thought I should really go check the settings. I know I should have first but when I heard the lipo cut-off chirp for 3s I thought might as well give it a whirl. I picked up the truggy ad just to check my assumption in the air I tested forward...it seemed slow and the tires were barely ballooning. So then I pulled reverse and it ballooned. Then all of a sudden I heard a crack as the pinion hits the wall whizzing right by my head. Wow that I thought. Then I got really sad when I noticed that my BRAND NEW motor's shaft was missing....oh yea it snapped. I felt sick.

Now I have never had a bent shaft nor have one snap. The only thing I can figure is that the Mod one pinion sleeve shifted and *snap-o-rama.* The shaft has a clean break and the metal shaft looks to be a composite of some sort. I am figuring this is my fault and am not saying its a bad motor. Its just when Castle creations was soooooo generous to fix it without charge it makes me sick that this could happen to me. Man this sucks and is a blast of bad luck that has come during a time that I cant even afford to pay attention. I even sold my new 8ight build to a guy on here just b/c I could not afford to finish it.

Anyway I feel better just typing this. I dont know what to do. Call castle and tell them what happened or just buy a medusa...a motor that is better suited for this rig anyway and one that I dont have to run a sleeve with.

Disgusted *sigh*