Mad force cruiser ve

[Chadworkz]

Originally Posted by ikpthegame

yes i total the buggy, but that was cause of my radio being messed up as we found out.

I know about that first hand!

When I completed the final build on my first Full-Blown Nitro Supermaxx, I took it out to break-in the new LRP Z.28R Spec-3 Big-Block Engine, and all went well for the first few minutes...after that, all hell broke loose! I was running a brand-new 2.4gHz Airtronics MX-3 FHSS Tx & Rx, as well as a Venom Fail-Safe which I know worked fine because I had been using it in the SM before it became a full-blown SM with a big-block. Anyway, after a few minutes, the truck started glitching and would just come unbound completely every now and then. After re-binding, all went well for a couple minutes, and then the glitching started again, followed by the unbinding. I thought it might be the Rx batteries or the Venom Fail-Safe, so I removed the Venom Fail-Safe & setup the MX-3's internal fail-safe, and also replaced the Orion 1600mAh Rx battery with another fully-charged Intellect (IB) 1600mAh Rx battery, but the same thing kept happening.

Well, after adjustment after adjustment, and re-binding after re-binding, I tried one last time to get it working correctly, which turned out to be a bad thing to do...as I was bringing the truck back to me to just turn it off and be done for the day, the truck just all of a sudden went full-throttle and had no throttle or steering control! It flew by me WFO, hit & jumped the curb, hit and jumped the 5-6" raised sidewalk in my neighbor's yard, and finally slammed into my neighbor's truck, landing upside down while still running WFO! I quickly got over to it and put the toe of my shoe over the end of the exhaust pipe, which finally stopped the engine!

After installing the Tx/Rx into other vehicles, and many phone calls to Airtronics, as well as a few posts on the forums, it was determined that the radio was defective. Shortly after all of this, the Airtronics FHSS 2.4gHz system was replaced by the FHSS2 system, and I have heard that it is great. As it turned out, I wasn't the only person who got a defective Airtronics MX-3 FHSS system, almost all of them were defective!

Anyway, the truck sustained a broken front Rockhoundz Skidplate, a broken front Hardcore Racing Bulkhead, a broken front lower UE Racer-X A-Arm, and a broken front UE Supershock shock shaft & rod-end.

I switched to Spektrum & Losi DSM (same as Spektrum) and haven't had a problem since!