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Originally Posted by metalmickey0
I`m now confused as i just got myself a Mad Monkey as cant afford high price stuff, but now dont seem to be able to find Hop-Ups for it. And in my opinion its a well built impressive car and i like shiney stuff. Just waiting for the shell to come back from my sprayer and it`ll be running at my local outdoor club and close in door club. So any sites that sell spares would be usefull for me to add to my favs list for use later, as no doubt a tree will jump out at me. 
Rych |
daft as it sounds, download the X2c manual - all the major parts to fit the car are listed in the back & if you cross reference the manual for the monkey as i discovered there is a different set of part numbers although 90% of the parts are interchangeable but the X2c ones are listed with different numbers to those as shown in the mad-monkey parts list as i'd imagine they are made of different materials, however it's 2 bites of the cherry for spares & the parts are not much different in price, so all those people complaining they can't get spares, simply look up the numbers in the 2 versions of the same car & order whatever is in stock - at least it keeps you racing.
Granted the Monkey shell, battery strap & chassis tray (which aren't interchangeable) wouldn't be much use as a spare part for an X2c user unless you wanted to run with stick pack configuration as opposed to saddles or vice-versa, but the principle is there & there are twice the spare parts if you look & i'd imagine it's the same story for all the X pro Ansmann cars & their entry level counterparts.
Besides, what's the harm in buying a mad-rat kit - or even a couple - to rip apart for spares as the most likely parts that break on the monkey / X2c / X2 etc (namely wishbones, tie rods, kicker plates, idle gears, drive-shafts etc) would transfer over & i'm sure someone on ebay would always be looking for gearbox cases, motor mounts, spare chassis, shells, kit tyres etc for their broken rats once you have taken all the goodies you need to keep back as spares for yourself & there will always be someone at a club who needs a pinion or a silvercan motor for an old Tamiya or Mardave knocking around if you find you are getting a stock of clash 21's & 21t pinions to recoup some of the cash.