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Originally Posted by Mozzy
I hate to take you down, but, these knockoffs are exactly that!
The plastics are weaker, clutch & spurs melt, engine is....ok, but, pullstart breaks easily, servo's are crap & literally stop working after a few hours or the spline shears off the steering servo.
Best part is that the alloy bends & bends back without breaking! Good for two bends only. 
I've had both an original HPI & these crap things in front of me & driven both. They're not worth it.
You will spend hundreds if not thousands of $$ over a short period to bring it up to HPI standard each time it breaks.
& for the record, HPI plastics are made in the same factory as a few other high end nitro buggy & truggy brands, just can't remember which one's, in Taiwan.
China rips things off because the copyright, patent & legalities that apply in other countries don't apply & can't be enforced in China. Shenzen, China, is the place where most of the knock off crap comes from.
Quite a large can of worms opened here. |
I guess it all depends on the user and his/her driver style... Ive heard they are every bit as good as the 5b rtr version. The baja 5b ss is of higher quality but thats not the point... I would not mind having one.