TLR 22 Chassis, issue?

[DCM]

Right, ever since I have had my 22, it has always been a little wayward on the rear and aggressive on the front end. I have tried lots of things to try and remedy it, but all to no avail, so I have come to a conclusion that it must be the car at issue, not the setup.

I stripped the car back of all components and decided to put a straight edge on my chassis, front to rear, side to side, and diagonally. Seems there is an issue, and would like to ask if others could check theirs please.

What I found, from front to rear, the chassis bows up in the middle by about 1.5mm and only really drops down where you have the chassis bend for the front kick up and the joggle at the rear to lift the chassis.

[andys]

I'll check mine as it's coming off at the weekend to be replaced by the rossmod chassis.

I've always thought is was twisted - as when looking at the car front on it looked a little off. Might just be me, but i've looked at others and they looked twisted too - might just be an optical illusion - but I intent to measure it and check it too when I get it off the car.

[Nige]

This guy also had chassis issues --> http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74221

[DCM]

different issue by the looks

[chapuza]

My problem was slightly different - but hey, how difficult can it with "30 years of experience" under the belt (TLR marketing slang) to manufacture a perfectly straight, untwisted and level chassis? With today's machinery that's EASY. The problem is that nowadays everything comes from China and has to be cheap, cheap, cheap... If the guys at Team Associated and Losi back in the 80s and 90s had thought that way, we would never have seen an RC10 or a Losi XX equipped with Hydra-Drive, etc.

But maybe it's just me getting old... the good old days!

[fastinfastout]

the problem is, these days when your buying an AE or Losi, your not really buying an american product anymore.

But buy a jap car and you will not have any issues like these.