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    RC Turnbuckle Jr. REVO Jake's Avatar
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    What was the most costly repair you have ever had to do to your car?

    Mine is 125 dollars, and i didnt break it, a freind, that i let drive break it

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    Mine was $40 dollars. ESC was broken.
    selling Stampede.

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    Im looking at 250-$300 for my old style t-maxx. I want to get a revo.
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    120$ Canadian, after i hit a picnic table going around 25 mph.
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    $100 clams for a brand-new trx 2.5 in my T-maxx. Thats when I sold the T-maxx and got a electric stampede
    E-Pede w/Novak 5800 TLT under construction!!!!!

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    $114 for whem my pede's ESC blew and I got a novak super rooster.

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    Hmmm... that's a toughie. I think the worst of 'em was $8 for new castor blocks and hinge pins
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    The worst for me was when i twisted all my shafts and blew out both of my diffs. I dont remember the cost but i bought all the stuff brand new.

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    I got a STACK of bills worth of RC stuff. Each one was a minium of 40 an average of 50 and the most I could remember is like 75 or something. I got about 500 bucks worth of stuff. My nitro rustler is a 97
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    my most costly one was a new engine and ez-starter when the one-way bearign collaspsed on to the crankshaft and jammed inside the ez-start main gear and wouldn't come of anything we tried didn't work so it came out at 100 GBP which is bout 150 USD
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    I'm a good driver

    from doing front flips I broke my front body mount on my stampede it was like $5

    no no accualy I converted my micro rs4 into a rally car and I dented the motor can and the magnets got crushed that was about $10 for a new motor but I got it for free do it doesnt really count

    but when I get a brushless this fall or next month I bet it will all change
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    Around $100 for me, but it wasnt even my fault. The LHS dropped my radio on the floor and it landed on the antenna. That broke the antenna and messed up the internal boards pretty badly. Then the guy goes to turn on my Nitro Rustler, it turns on, but the radio doesnt do anything. So he opens it and sees it's all screwed up. Then he makes ME pay for a new radio. I was like are you serious! It worked when I gave it to you, then you drop it and it doesnt work, its you who broke it! I ended up gettin a Futaba radio and the guy that did that got fired. Serves him right!

    The normal LHS guys are always real cool to me and now everyone that works there knows what they are doing and are very smart at which type of RC they help people with.
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    Hmm...
    Over the winter I took my npede pretty much all the way apart for cleaning and found some hidden damage (probably from hitting trees when i was a noob).

    Bent chassis, bent front hingepins. Of course i stripped some screws and started replacing them with hex (just about done now). Plus i blew the pro .15 a few months before that and got a 2.5....and conversion parts.

    So thats, 130 dollars in repair i suppose? Not including the linkage and exhaust parts for the engine.

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    Busted esc, about 120 for a super rooster. Of course there's regular upgrades, you can't put a price on those (too much).
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    130 bucks for a used 1/8. it was pretty much junk when i bought it but i made it a lot better then i got a new 130 engine then blew it up and now it just sits in my garage
    try me

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