good news

[dragracer17]

some of you my remember i was having trouble with my rustler....well i finally got it fixed and am now back into the hobby with a 4 year old stock xl-1 rustler(great) but i think ill be buying a "V" rustler when they come out....by the way i love the guys at my hobby town usa there so cool....there very helpful and are young and race cars themselfs....but when i told the guy what part i need he goes o no thats rough...i hate when that happens...i just think its cool when they do that stuff i dunno im weird i guess

[cooleocool]

I should check out a Hobby Town if I can ever find one not to far away. They sound like they've got pretty good people working in them!

Glad to hear that your truck is up and running again!

[carcrazee]

kinda bummed with our hobbytown, just took out our only local track, and it seems at ours unless you spend a ton of cash on a nitro, they do not need you as a customer, anyway, welcome back to the hobby!!

[mrkavanagh]

my hobby town sucks!!! i stopped going! They never had anything for the rusty, were always rude! I wrote corporate a letter told them i wouldn't be shopping there ever again.

[dragracer17]

o...im sorry to hear that...i like the guys working near me...and thanks for the welcome

[Rustler'06]

My LHS is OK. They didn't know there was a 90 tooth spur for the Rustler even though they had that spur in stock.

[newtorc]

I don't think it's a big deal if a lhs doesn't know all the part numbers, etc. for a specific model of car. There's a lot of cars out there, can't know them all inside out. I judge a lhs based on their general knowledge, and willingness to search/find a part. I'm lucky in that the one lhs I mostly deal with has a young guy (well, young to me) that knows his way around Traxxas vehicles.

[Pet Rock]

Hobbytown has quite a few different types of hobby they look after and I am sure it takes years to become all round knowledgable. I was only able to talk to one guy that had RC car knowledge. He has gone back to school. I now find a lot of info from this forum. Thanx Guys

[kilana]

kinda bummed with our hobbytown, just took out our only local track, and it seems at ours unless you spend a ton of cash on a nitro, they do not need you as a customer, anyway, welcome back to the hobby!!

my hobby town sucks!!! i stopped going! They never had anything for the rusty, were always rude! I wrote corporate a letter told them i wouldn't be shopping there ever again.

I too, been experiencing similar, if not exact, situations with my LHS. Fortunately, not all the employees there are rude. At least two of them are very helpful, but unfortunately, they also know the least about electric cars and would still have to ask the rude guys. The rude guys would just say to them that if they can't find it, then they don't have it....and that's without even trying to look it up in their computer. One time I called on the phone to ask about the aluminum idler gear, and the guy said they don't have such a thing. That same day, I went in and saw a bunch of it on their wall. I bought it anyway because I was desperately in need of one.

The other bad thing in my situation is that they do have a fairly good selection of Traxxas parts with reasonable prices and are open 7 days a week, and located about two blocks from my work. I just wish they weren't so prejudice.

[RustlerDude3]

My LHS is great. they always hold annual races and have great service.

[dragracer17]

great to hear...mine doesnt hold races....just the 2 guys in the back with the cars race them selfs and have nitros and electrics them selfs also....so they know quite abit about them...and there young so they know whats goin on

[lancec2c30]

My hobbytown hates rc vehicles. lol , he had them stolen from his shop several times and refused to stock anything related to them from then on out.

[dragracer17]

wow, how does that happen...it would be impossible to take something from mine