rear suspension arm

[robsm]

Had my 22 rtr literally 10 seconds and the rear arm broke, cant beleive it. Very low speed knock from another car, my 22 wasnt even moving. Glued it back together but only lasted about 3mins before it snapped. Not impressed with the quality of plastie. Are there any stronger options out there? This really was a very low speed impact, and for a car with such a racing pedigree i had expected better. Any advice or should i just replace with stock parts? Cheers

[Razer]

Originally Posted by robsm

Had my 22 rtr literally 10 seconds and the rear arm broke, cant beleive it. Very low speed knock from another car, my 22 wasnt even moving. Glued it back together but only lasted about 3mins before it snapped. Not impressed with the quality of plastie. Are there any stronger options out there? This really was a very low speed impact, and for a car with such a racing pedigree i had expected better. Any advice or should i just replace with stock parts? Cheers

The stock arms from the kit are solid as hell, so it might be that it's a different material used in the rtr. Replacing it with the stock TLR 22 arms should sort it.

[atsang]

Originally Posted by Razer

The stock arms from the kit are solid as hell, so it might be that it's a different material used in the rtr. Replacing it with the stock TLR 22 arms should sort it.

I second that!!! my 22 has had some abuse and in all fairness i have had to replace one of the rear arms but the amount of abuse that it got was unreal like my 22 has had a very bad roll through its horizontal axis so every arm wheel got a real bad bashing and i can safely say i cant fault the plastics

[jaywestwood]

Third that... Car is mega strong

[Gnarly Old Dog]

So much depends on many variables including ambient temperature, the angle of the knock, the impact speed (as mentioned by the original poster) and the resistance to the impact speed (does the car slide on a low grip surface or does it resist the impact on a higher bite surface like long grass or astro) that in many instances, there is simply no rhyme or reason to why an innocuous impact can break a part when a much heavier impact seems to impart no damage.

It won't make robsm feel any better but I only broke 1 rear arm in over a season's use with the 22 - and I didn't even realise it had broken until I stripped the car down afterwards as part of my post-race maintenance.

I also ran for nearly the entire season last year on 1 servo horn and then broke 2 in the space of 2 meetings. No explanation - other than I did clip something on each occasion - but no harder than I normally clip things

The car is proving to be very strong but almost anything will break and often, in the most innocuous of circumstances.

There would be no reason why the RTR would break any differently to the TLR kit - if a different plastic is used (and I'm not sure that one is), then often the RTR plastics are more flexible as they tend to have less glass filled content in their composition.

Like I say - it won't make you feel any better but I think you were very unlucky. The 22 platform is amongst the strongest of cars in its class but sometimes these things do happen. It's of scant consolation but you should at least be able to pick up a spare part quite easily from one of the many Losi / TLR stockists around. At least it'll help you get back on the track quickly.

[woOdy]

I had a head crash with a Durango 410 indoors on carpet and I came off the winner as the Durango shock broke and got oil all over the track