RGT RC Crawler 1:24 Scale 4wd Off Road Rock Crawler 4x4 Truck Mini RC Car (Red)

This truck has amazed me over and over again. The battery can be easily replaced with a drone battery, giving it a much longer life. I also added some poster putty to the rims. It looks ugly, but does a great job! I also fastened a couple of fishing weight to the shock mounts. This is a fantastic car when compared to any of the others that I own, including the ECX Barrage, Axial SCX24 Deadbolt, and the Basher Rocksta.

First, the instructions are non-existent. You have to figure out where to plug in the charger and where the turn on button is. Furthermore, to get to the plug in and the turn on switch you have to remove the plastic top (the truck part) and it means removing 4 very, very small cotter pins which are easy to lose. This has to be done every time you want to charge the unit or if you want to turn it on or off. I guess you could leave it off, but then why buy an RC car with a body? For a child, this is a deal breaker.Then the quality seems suspect. The plastic for the body is very thin and seems like it would easily break. On the unit I received the battery pack was already broken off of the frame of the car. A little piece of tape and it went back in place, but I shouldn't have to deal with that right out of the box. The decals for the lights are not straight. Not what I should get for $100. The charge light goes off almost immediately after plugging in, but the unit must not be charged as it won't go. It barely has the strength to turn the front wheels. I've seen better quality and ease of use on a $30 RC car. Once fully charged it is not very fast at all. (You have to guess when fully charged is as the light doesn't work.)I would not recommend this product. Furthermore, if I can't get it to charge properly it will be going back. I might just send it back due to the battery pack being disconnected right out of the box and the decals not being straight. Avoid this product. I'd give it 0 stars if it were an option.

At the end of the day this is an incredible trip for the price BUT for $10 more I would hands down recommend an axial truck over this. I’ll try and break it down as simple as I canPROS:-very fun-simple-scale is great-our right fun-you can add different batteries for very long battery life-stock the truck is very fun and very water resistant.-can be used inside or out.-RTR! Pull it out of the box and run it!CONS:-one trucks servo went out, only goes forward- both my trucks drive shaft pins that lead from The motor fell out and I couldn’t find them (TERRIBLE DESIGN), easily fixed with a small piece of metal wire.-ESC’s all needed to be reglued or have double sided tape reapplied.

Right out of the box, the ECU was loose from the frame and flopping around. It's just double-sided tape holding it in, so I re-stuck it and went from there. No big deal. However, about halfway through the second battery charge, the truck stopped moving because a pin had come out of the main driveshaft and disappeared. I fashioned a new pin from some wire and ran the truck some more, and the second original pin also went away within a few minutes. It took a few tries to get my homemade pins to work properly and stay in place. There were also no operation instructions whatsoever, and I had to figure out how to install controller batteries, hook up the lipo battery, etc., on my own. So far, I have yet to run through a complete battery charge without having to stop and repair something. I am using this indoors, and not abusing it in any way. This is far from a cheap toy, and I'm not pleased with the quality.

Would have given zero stars, ordered one a few months back... worked 3 times then esc went out... ordered another thinking i got a dud... and plugged this on in first time and smoked/shorted out... came to find out one of wires on esc was loose from factory...Given all my issues, i contacted the company before posting a negative review, you deal with direct chinese customer service, takes days to respond on e mail, then when they do and give you links to follow, they lead me nowhere... very bad Q.C. and awful customer service, would give zero stars if i could. Avoid at all costs! If you want quality scale 1/24 crawler, spend $15 more on axial scx 24