Kpowell911

yeah shame there isnt many uk rc brands and with declining local hobby shops around anymore makes it worst unless you like places like antics that dont seem to know anything about rcs at all,reminds me years ago when i had my traxxas stampede vxl i had a problem with the way the leads were soldered to the main board on the esc it was widely known back them until they changed it as they kept snapping off and i didnt solder back then so i dropped traxxas a email to see what they would do and fairplay they gave me a contact email to get it fixed i fired off an email  a nice guy replied saying he would help and sort it he gave me an address at the time which i thought was wierd not a hobby shop or industrial site was a normal house address lol it was local so asked if i could pop round instead of posting the guy was awesome and said yeah after 6pm when he got back from work i started thinking WTF and yep it was a normal house of a family who proceeded to solder it out on his kitchen table while his wife and kids ate in the living room haha was bizarre 😂turnt out he was the local traxxas tech for the south west lmao 👍

@Bajadrehow long ago was that? I appreciate people think my Traxxas obsession is bizarre and potentially unethical, but my reasoning is Ive always been a Traxxas guy, since when they was arguably the tiny up and comer in the UK. The same way people have an affection for Tamiya, I was a Traxxas lad, with a Rustler, complete with MSC, and a clear body shell. I dont think they had a UK Distributor, and the internet wasnt massive (I used to have to phone Modelsport, order my bits from the catalogue, and pass my Dad the phone to give his card details). But you could literally phone Traxxas UK, and they would sell you parts directly. They’d often remember your name as you phoned. They were a tinY entity in the UK. I eventually upgraded everything on that Rustler. As when I got a bit of money, Id ring them up and order whatever part was broken, or an upgrade. The only way Id know its an upgrade is wqs buy looking on the sheet of paper snd looking for the part numbers in bold. I had that Rustler for probably 12  years, it eventually ended up with a ‘state of the art’ Novak SS Brushless system. As time went on I used to frequent the (at the time) extremely popular Traxxas Forum, and get upgrades from Tower Hobbies whenever I could afford. I I bet if RC cars had a mileage counter, that Rustler would have more miles on it than my 200 odd RCs since put together. 
 

Traxxas are erm, a different company in 2022, and theyve got a loyal UK Customer here waiting for an XRT and 2x TRX4Ms, and he is that annoyed with the current state of play he is considering sacking the hobby off completely after nearly 30 years…..

way way back K prob a few months after they launched i got it ex display  from msuk webby they had amazing deals back then in the day etc came with a 7cell nimh and charger haha seemed fast as hell back then 😂i was lucky as they did a odd few parts on here i think only thing i ever broke on it was the wheelie bar part they took such a beating 😎she ended up getting converted to a rustler in the end then swopped for a baja pipe off a mate for his young son lol