X6 meets wall....ooops, Suggestions needed please..

[Team No Idea]

Hello hello. Its a sad day.. after coming back from the F345's without needing to carry out any repairs to my X6 i was pretty pleased with myself. However after a bit of loving fettling with the car today (refreshing the shock oils) i took it for a test drive...
I put the car on the floor pulled away and then withing seconds the car was up to full speed, i had no control at all, the steering and brakes didnt work, there was no response at all from the transmitter to the car.
The car carried on flat out about 50 yards up the road all i could do was stand and wait for the inevitable. Then came the brick wall.

R.I.P X6.

So now its car replacement time, when i find some money.... but the thing on my mind is how could this happen? does anyone have any idea how it could have taken off but then not responed to anything i tried to do?.

All the batteries in the trasmitter and car were fully charged, Im using spektrum and havent had interference issues all year..

It was bloody spectacular though.!!! I still havn't found all the parts!
I think its going to be cheaper to buy a used X6 rather than repair this one.

[mark christopher]

if u have spektrum your fail safe should have cut in, unless you have it set so when you turn off your radio it defaults to max power, sounds like you have done that to me

[rc_penguin]

what actually broke martin? or whats left?

[ben]

Please can we see pictures???

[Dazzler]

Pictures please +1

[MRD]

Stick me down for a few pics

[MRD]

My guess would be Spectrum fail safe. If you bind the unit with throttle applied, thats what it will do when the transmitter is off. Ive done it when Ive bound the car, then found out I have to reverse the throttle and recalibrate. The fail safe is still set for the original setting. I'm probably wrong but its worth looking at .

Edit: You just pipped me to it

[pete2222]

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31115

I started a thread the other day to try to find out the best adhesive for RC repairs . Looks like you could benefit from this too. (assuming someine will reply to it).

I just crashed my B4 into the wall of my house.

In my case I think I had the battery wire mounted touching the speedo/receiver wire which caused a major "glitch" when I tried to gently drive it on my small front lawn. I only broke a front arm though.

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by Team No Idea

Hello hello. Its a sad day.. after coming back from the F345's without needing to carry out any repairs to my X6 i was pretty pleased with myself. However after a bit of loving fettling with the car today (refreshing the shock oils) i took it for a test drive...
I put the car on the floor pulled away and then withing seconds the car was up to full speed, i had no control at all, the steering and brakes didnt work, there was no response at all from the transmitter to the car.
The car carried on flat out about 50 yards up the road all i could do was stand and wait for the inevitable. Then came the brick wall.

R.I.P X6.

So now its car replacement time, when i find some money.... but the thing on my mind is how could this happen? does anyone have any idea how it could have taken off but then not responed to anything i tried to do?.

All the batteries in the trasmitter and car were fully charged, Im using spektrum and havent had interference issues all year..

It was bloody spectacular though.!!! I still havn't found all the parts!
I think its going to be cheaper to buy a used X6 rather than repair this one.

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31251

[mikeyscott]

How much to bring it up to a X6 Squared spec?

[Mike Hudson]

probably a whole new conversion kit as buying what would be needed seperately probably wouldn't be worth it

[dodgydiy]

i remember seeing a friends tamiya bigwig meeting a steel girder at a fair turn of speed years ago, now that was impressive, took whole side off the car, including sides of gearcases, chassis and part of my 9.6 volt battery that was being used! the only useable parts left over were the right hand suspension and a servo. motor, receiver and so on were all junk

[Paul_Sinclair]

Full punch into a wall, ouch! As others have commented, I always try to bind my spektrum stuff in neutral. Full brake is tempting, but then if you have a split-second radio hit during a race it upsets the car terribly; neutral has been the safest bet for me.

From the pictures, I'd say you could fairly cheaply go 'half-squared'. If you bought a 1005/1006 Squared Chassis, 1223 Battery strap, and 6142 hinge pin bushings you'd have everything to put the old rear end onto a new chassis (along with some miscellaneous hardware like the 1" battery hold-down screws).

Then, at your leisure or when you break a rear arm, you can put the 3012 squared control arms and 3313 squared CF tower on and have a full-version Squared.