PiccoLow

Not that I condone or support bashing your investment. However, it happens right..So post em up, this should get interesting quickly.

malibuboats4

i was driving my budweiser nitro boat and brought it in to tune it and turned off hte electronics. i then started it up and forgot to turn the receiver on in the boat. luckily it didnt go perfectly straight, so it just went in circles and i had to paddle out in my kayak... no fun. the i ran into a curb my first run after breaking in my tmaxx. broke front skid, bulkhead and bent shock shaft.

69eyes

my first run after break in, i was going WOT and my radio crossed with another kids and my truck hit a tree right front wheel first, broke too much to list

Danju

the WORST think that happened to my revo was the turnbuckle broke. i hit a small 1 foot ramp going at half throttle and attempted to do 2 backflips and ended up landing on the rear end. i snapped the pivot part of the turnbuckle....thats it.... not that exciting but its still the worst that has happened to it...

morrowcat

i once landed my savage upside down smashing the engine plate.... splattered it in 4 places

dight1

oh boy. I have a few to list so ill list most of them.

War #1 I was in the process of break in something happened my electronics failed. the thing sat there for like a minute. Then it picked up a signal and went WOT and it looked like it was gonna hit my dads navigator. Then it missed it by a inch. Then it hit my dads garage door and flipped. It stalled. I was suprized the bumber took all the impact. It just acted like a spring and all i did was accidently pinch my battery wire. heh learnt that.

war #2 It was a normal day. My friend and I were jumping our trucks. I had my maxx he had his savy. Well i did one to many jumps. the throttle got stuck WOT or something and it went straight top speed into a curb then turned around did a donut then kept going then turned into another curb. I chased it and it stalled right before i was about to catch it luckly. I had alum parts on too. I bent all my left front stuff all the way back. Broke the top a-arm, and just bent other stuff. my dad and I fixxed it with a hammer, hack saw, and punch. We then sent it to get welded and its good as new, well for the time being.

war #3 It was winter out and i just finished doing what ever to my truck, a run down to make sure everything was in running order. Sure enough it was all opperating good. I took it out and it was very sandy on the road so i hooked up half decent. I went into a sharp turn, pinned it, and guess what. the throttle got stuck WOT. It went full throttle off a 8 foot hill did 2 back flips, landed on the front end hard and broke some stuff. Then it took a turn and almost hit a parked car, luckly the truck was broken so it turned a bit. Then it turned and went across the street WOT. it jumped did a flip landed front end heavy. Then drove into a bush, the spur melted, and the thing had no load on the engine. That was probably my worst crash yet. Broke my chassis, front and back bulkhead only 1 of each, bent some stuff, broke my steering if i remember? Yeah.

War #4 It was right after i got my new engine in my .15 maxx and those things were tanks back in the day compared to the newer ones. Well my dad and i were driving my rc. Then it stalls. What ever. We start it again drive it the spur breaks. Then it goes WOT since we lost signal. The spur melts, engine has no load on it. We said BLAAAH. My dad phoned the hobby shop that broke in our engine for us. He told us to eff off and called my dad a effer. That was a bad experience.

Those are all my wars. If i remember any others or have any others ill post again. Those are the only ones i recall that are bad, or just not so good for others.

Enjoy!
Mitch.

JC_Dirtdog

Here's one for ya,

I used to work at my lhs about 4 years ago. One night me and my ex wife were there turn marshaling a slot car race. about two hours before the race , there were about 5 people including me out in the parking lot running our nitro cars and trucks. At the time, I had a brand new Sportmaxx. There was this little punk kid out there with an all aluminum T-Maxx. He kept getting closer to my truck, and I noticed that it seemed as if he was trying to hit me, so I decided to bring my truck in before it got destroyed, well, I turned the truck around and headed back towards where I was standing and I went WOT trying to get it back to me before he could get to me, but he had circled around and before I could do anything... BAM!!! he slammed head on into my truck at full speed!!! The impact broke my front bulkheads, skid plate, steering bell cranks, bumper and mounts, shock tower, one chassis brace, and bent the two front shock shafts!!!! I was mad as heck!!! I then noticed that his dad had seen the whole thing! he ran out and grabbed the radio out of his hand, brought the truck in, and shut it off and threw it in their car. He then made his son come up to me and apologize to me. Then his dad went inside the shop with me and bought me every part that I needed to fix my truck. My boss (owner of my LHS, where I worked) then asked me what happened to my truck, so I told him. He then told the kid to NEVER bring his truck back around there again!! I was ROTFLMAO!!! I got my truck fixed, and the last laugh!!!

dight1

lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Bad story. But funny. That kid should have a kick in the anus.
These things arent ment to bash like that, unless there like diamond that wont break. And you should go steel his a-arms and put stock crappy ones on just for a joke then be like. Thats what you did to me except i gave it back you didnt.

Haha good story though.

PiccoLow

I'd probably say the worst I had didn't break anything, but it really ended the day for me. I was doing some big high speed laps in my yard, I came in hot trying to drift out in some loose dirt. The front tires bit and it flipped and shot up about crotch level aimed right at my future Revo Owners. I must've jumped 6 feet into the air to manage to save myself a lot of pain.

SS-Maxx

The worst i've ever done is hit a curb at WOT. The truck then jumped the curb, got airborne, and ended up barrell-rolling through the neighbor's yard. I got away easy with a broke right-front A-arm. During break-in, I drove it up under an Accord in a Kroger parking lot. I had red paint streaks all over my brand-new body. Then my dad ran the truck through a deep puddle in the yard and about flooded it.

ttoks

all, and i mean all of the parts that have broken on my truck have broken on the rear left wheel lol, that is every single one that i can think of.

fatkidjoey

the 1st day i got my t-maxx 3.3 broke in i took it to a park and in 2 min i went wot and smacked a tree the car went one way b/c i small stick got on the gas control and kept it on so it went about 50 feet b4 stoping with it hit the restroom house the tree cost me 1 upper arm 1 lower 2 shocks 1 wheel 1 drive shaft few more small peaces and the house cost me bumper and skidplate 2 bulk arms and shock tower . and one more drive shaft.... yea my wife was pissed that i just spent a lot of money buying it then broke it right away lol

happywing

FIRE! I was testing my 1/8 buggy conversion at an indoor track. It stopped, then started smoking...badly. The thickest nastiest smelling smoke I've ever experience. Myself and a friend removed the body to see flames! We pulled the batteries (LiPo) and the flames stopped. Turns out I had one of the MTroniks Truck "bad" ESC's. I'll say it was bad.

jarett 92

i was flying in 2nd gear at WOT and there was a really wide turn and i thought i cleared it and...i didn't. it couldnt turn sharp enough so it smashed into a wooden fence.

LSTVega28

Yikes! I think my worst crach would have to be with my old savage 25


I went WOT purposely into a tree ( don't ask lol) with the glow plug loose. When I made contact with the tree, glow plug shot up 25 feet in the air...also stripped my head as well.

rcnitrohead

LOL^^^^^^^^

BRUSHLESS BASHER

The worst that has happenned was I was driving my RC18T when it had the stock electronics, and a new 7 cell battery, I was testing it out in our rec room, and it started to smoke and the body started melting, I threw it outside and let the fire die, it destroyed the battery, melted some plastic, and destroyed the ESC, but my mamba was in the mail, and I bought a new battery at the LHS, so it was fixed pretty quick.

h22a4

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Not traxxas related but the pics explain them selves. 35lb truck vs. parked tow truck axle.

keepontruckin

is it just me or did i read about alot of T-Maxxs breaking in this thread??

well i was out bashing in front of my house with my friend, (me-T-Maxx, Jordan-Muggy) and inbetween filming us jumping them, i decided to do a couple of high speed runs in the street, so i drive it down the street about half-throttle, turn around, and gun the throttle, shifts nicely, and when i glanced to make sure i wasnt gunna hit the ramp, or my friend, WHACK!!, i slammed into the front end of the 2007 BMW parked on the other side of the street. i got lucky, and didnt break anything(don't know how that happend), and the BMW made out alright.

i guess the R/C won this battle

Danju

forgot one more:

on my way to the parking lot, i was kicking my rusty along the asphalt cuase i ran outa battery. all the electronics were turned off. before making it to the parking lot, there was a little hill i had to go over first. i went over the hill, and started coming down...and before i knew it, the rusty went sliding down the hill towards parked car..i had no control cause the car was turned off so all i could do was pray that i dont hit that nice BMW over there....well, it turned out the rusty slid right under the bumper of that car and was kinda stuck under there. i pulled my car out and heard stuff getting crunched and metal hitting metal (oops)...... but i manage to get it out..

69eyes

about a month ago, i was driving at the marina and a squirrel jumps infront of my tmaxx and got too close to my wheel which ended up sucking alot of hair off the squirrels tail, pretty funny until i had to pull it out of my wheel[:'(]

tommythecat

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Was driving my maxx across a stream at the local park and it got in to deep, started to float off the bottom and get washed away. I got really lucky and got to it before it got down into a pipe, where it would likely have gotten stuck.

Another one, had mounted rocket tubes on my rustler, set to ignite 2 solid fuel rocket engines when you opened the throttle the whole way. Worked great with c sized rocket engines, btu when I put d's in it, it broke traction with the rear tires and went into a slide, cracked a curb at well over 30mph, shattered the front bulk, left rear bulk, bent all four hing pins, busted an axle carrier and a stub axle, rear shock tower, and possibly more things I am forgetting about.