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Originally Posted by cmgreen
X-Factory,
I bought the X-5 about 2 months ago, and thought it would be the perfect upgrade to my xx4. I have had 3 xx4 over 10 years and never really had a problem with it, except prices of parts. After 2 months of ownership (maybe more) the x5 squared will now be replaced by a b44 when it comes out.
The reason : -
The x5 squared it the fastest car i have ever driven, but also the worst. I have broken one rear shock tower every week, and a spur gear every time i go racing, one belt, and several pulleys. It will now come to a end from sunday night, when i start rebuilding the xx4, which i rarely had any problems with. And with spur gears at £11 quid each (in the UK) is it becoming very expensive (shame cause there only $11 in the states, another X-factory ripp off)
I my opinion the car is S**T, It is just 2 cars put into one and re badged, like the super aguri team in F1 ( a honda copy).
I do apolgise if i offend any x5 lovers, but this car is really P***ing me off.
Just to finish, X-factory build a car from scratch and stop ripping the uk off!
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It's a shame you didn't maybe speak more to one of us team guys in the uk to take a look at your car some more before you jumped on the forum and totally laid in to a small company trying to take on the big boys, and in my opinion doing a very good job of it.
As you knew when you bought the car it was a conversion kit so really not sure what your issue with that it. Obviously there is dremelling to be done but I have never ever had a car that doesn't require dremeling in some form even when it is a production kit.
Can't see how you can blame X Factory for the rear towers, the are not made by them. If you have broken them where you dremel them then I'm afraid that is your fault as you must have removed too much material, I have broken 2 this year, one where I dremeled too much and the other was totally unrelated to the dremeled area.
As for spur gears that can only be because the motor is not clamping tightly. I take it you don't have the squared chassis as we spent a lot of time, and believe me a massive amount of money, to sort the chassis out to make it a lot better, one area that was worked was this to make the motor sit better.
In the whole year I have done one belt and one set of pulleys, both my fault as the belt was skipping due to me setting it to quickly at the euro's and it was skipping, as it was the A I kept on going and hence done the parts in.
Price wise again that is harsh, Losi parts are known to be expensive, now obviously the spur is pricey but you have to look at how much it costs to make, then import duties etc to get to the prices. Maybe they should be made in China out of paper mache and sold for free but like many people are finding stuff made in China is certainly not the best.
You last comment about building a car from scratch is also a little rich, you say you are going to buy a b44, is that not a copy of 2 other cars on the market!!! I seriously hope AE get the car right, or at least the Chinese do making it, otherwise you will be running them down as well, and I seriously hope you don't need a dremel on it either or you might sue them.
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