How are the Rx8 & T8's holding up?

[hubbaman]

Originally Posted by kalbien

I was racing yesterday, got new rotor from tekin some time ago, no problem so far. It was long main with nitros and I was like "well we will see if it will hold up" I was first after changing batteries, so I slowed down not to rush things.
Well long story short, car started to go slow and I didn't reallized that it is rotor out from magnet again. I guessed it's because I put wrong batery in (it was long day) so I went slow about 1 40 sec lap. It was 2mins to end of main so I hoped to finish really slow.
My bad, magnet was out from shaft, therefore temperature went to skies and I guess rotor is demagnetized a bit now.
Still finished second, but quite a dissapointment.
here is pict

Yep my new rotor's just gone as well, 2nd time out total of about 27mins running, not even racing yet, just taking it (relatively) gently, have e-mailed Tekin, hopefully they are as good as everyone says.

[whitrzac]

Originally Posted by hubbaman

Yep my new rotor's just gone as well, 2nd time out total of about 27mins running, not even racing yet, just taking it (relatively) gently, have e-mailed Tekin, hopefully they are as good as everyone says.

email takes 48hrs+ call them tomarow and you should have a new rotor before next weekend


I must say, that the RX8 has held up awsome against my abuse only had to send it in twice

[Kajman]

I wouldn't call it reliable ;) I wanted to buy tekin again, but from here, in europe it would be a disaster, 1 race, 1 month or more waiting nad 20-30$ shipping. I chose Neu and MMM and no problems at all. But it is a pity, rx8 seemed to be mamba killer, but even esc gets quite many failures, mostly because of electronics getting loose during crashes (sensor plate and so on).

[kalbien]

Originally Posted by Kajman

I wouldn't call it reliable ;)

Well tekin was my first "real" racing equipment and I can thank them for great time I had, but I just don't trust the motor anymore and with that in your head "it can die anytime now" you don't have proper mind setting for racing. So I have already neu for replacement and after winter I will buy any new neu that will come to market...

[Jagemon]

Looks like one dead ESC here. Simply wont "command" the motor, no chimes or turning the axle. Leds work fine as well as HotWire. Too bad they wont move my car

Going to see when the tekin support replys to my email. Wont be calling to their support from Finland