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Originally Posted by Chris Doughty
Tony, thanks for the feedback.
I'll not reply to everything individually as I know I will end up spending all day on here playing forum tennis with everyone. but here are a few points.
the c-clip thing - the single biggest thing with this is over-crimping the clip - this is very bad. the orientation of the clip and small details like this can slightly help to compensate for this so our build guide and tech tip mentions this to ensure the best chance of it working well.
if you use the correct c-clip pliers and very very careful to not over-crimp the clip, It will work with the clip both ways round.
The body does not need to be used with the cowls, you can simply cut out your rear section for your motor plate.
The reason we went with the option for the cowls is that you can use a single painted body with ALL configurations, when you change to rear-motor (for example oOple race) you use the same body, just with the rear motor cowl, no hole in your body for where your motor plate would be...
also, no Ugly bulges to cover the motor plates.
Darkness of the diagrams in the manuals, I understand, we will work to make sure that the diagrams of multiple plastic parts aren't too dark in future manuals.
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It's great that someone is wanting to know what think.
On the quality side of things I have the following issues:-
1) Rear wishbone slop, this would have been noticed by any TD driver when building the kit. This should've been rectified prior to release.
2) The HD ball cups still have slop in them like the old ones, still like to pop off when changing camber but don't seem to pop off as easily so still not great. I think its to do with them not wrapping round the ball enough.
3) I should've spoke to TD customer support but needed to get the car ready, I had an oversized idler gear shaft so the bearings were tight and are going to be a pain to get off.
Now the spec:-
1) Metal shock stand offs, these were on all TD cars including the R range so are and were expected.
2) Alloy shock caps, as per above and they are on the 410v3.
3) Gold shock shafts, they are on the 410 but not the 210. They've been introduced on one model and not the other.
4) Plastic Steering rack, fair enough if you have a servo saver. A pressed steel one would be better.
5) Plastic hexes, they would squash over a short period.
The above would make it the same spec as the 410 and people would be a lot happier.