Team Corally Kagama 4s XL
This post is mainly for awareness and information if you're looking to buy a Team Corally Kagama 4s XL. First off, it's the perfect size and power for larger yards, street driving and parks. I'vr driven mine for about 12 mins and three things have broken without going off any jumps. I've had a Kronos XTR and Shogun and both were decent cars except were brittle in a few places like hubs and spoiler. However I went a whole summer without breaking anything doing minor jumps (10' high) with them. So I pulled the trigger and got this on sale for $319. So far it's been a complete dissapointment. I wanted a more powerful car than my 3s Rustler and Vorteks since they are fairly light and don't really work well at the local parks near me (very bumpy/hilly grass). The 4s lineup was my target. I listened to the YouTubers and used shrink tape on the axles to prevent them from coming off and it holds really well. Unfortunately, the first time out the servo saver broke going about 15mph on a turn in my backyard. So I ordered an aluminum one and installed it yesterday. I charged my battery and off we went again. Not 3 mins through of street driving (it's icy on my street so it was a ton of fun drifting around) the servo broke. The servo saver was still fairly soft to prevent anything from happening like this. I took it apart and sure enough the gear was stripped. I'll be filing a warranty claim for that. Dissapointment #3 is when I picked it up from my bench by the wing and the middle part snapped. The plastic TC uses is complete garbage and I'll probably find a replacement elsewhere. I've owned close to 25 RC's from Traxxas, Losi, Arrma, Team Associated, Kyosho, Tamiya, and TC but this has been the most disappointing one so far (besides my brittle Widemaxx). TC should be ashamed of the car but as long as it makes money, they probably don't care. I just hope this post helps someone decide not to buy it if they're on the fence. I think this car could have had some great potential but they chose to replicate their brittle plastics and not fix what they knew was crap. I'm hoping that they do what Team Associated did and provide a service pack to replace parts with known issues like they did with the MT8 (not a popular opinion but it's better than my Maxx).
I also enjoy wrenching on my cars more than actually driving them but not for constant repairs like this. It takes the fun out of the hobby.
This post is mainly for awareness and information if you're looking to buy a Team Corally Kagama 4s XL. First off, it's the perfect size and power for larger yards, street driving and parks. I'vr driven mine for about 12 mins and three things have broken without going off any jumps. I've had a Kronos XTR and Shogun and both were decent cars except were brittle in a few places like hubs and spoiler. However I went a whole summer without breaking anything doing minor jumps (10' high) with them. So I pulled the trigger and got this on sale for $319. So far it's been a complete dissapointment. I wanted a more powerful car than my 3s Rustler and Vorteks since they are fairly light and don't really work well at the local parks near me (very bumpy/hilly grass). The 4s lineup was my target. I listened to the YouTubers and used shrink tape on the axles to prevent them from coming off and it holds really well. Unfortunately, the first time out the servo saver broke going about 15mph on a turn in my backyard. So I ordered an aluminum one and installed it yesterday. I charged my battery and off we went again. Not 3 mins through of street driving (it's icy on my street so it was a ton of fun drifting around) the servo broke. The servo saver was still fairly soft to prevent anything from happening like this. I took it apart and sure enough the gear was stripped. I'll be filing a warranty claim for that. Dissapointment #3 is when I picked it up from my bench by the wing and the middle part snapped. The plastic TC uses is complete garbage and I'll probably find a replacement elsewhere. I've owned close to 25 RC's from Traxxas, Losi, Arrma, Team Associated, Kyosho, Tamiya, and TC but this has been the most disappointing one so far (besides my brittle Widemaxx). TC should be ashamed of the car but as long as it makes money, they probably don't care. I just hope this post helps someone decide not to buy it if they're on the fence. I think this car could have had some great potential but they chose to replicate their brittle plastics and not fix what they knew was crap. I'm hoping that they do what Team Associated did and provide a service pack to replace parts with known issues like they did with the MT8 (not a popular opinion but it's better than my Maxx).
I also enjoy wrenching on my cars more than actually driving them but not for constant repairs like this. It takes the fun out of the hobby.