Dex410 or Xb4 ?

[shannow95]

Hello everybody,

First I'm very sorry to ask something like this because it's one very repeated question (b44.2 or k1? etc etc...) but I'm truly hesitating a lot between them and any input is very helpful.

My 4wd 1/10 background is :
-B44(first one) didn't like it because of cheap and nasty american size screws mainly.
-zx5 fs which was ok apart from spares that were difficult to get hold of and expensive.
-And the last a cat Sx3 which is truly beautiful, handles ok, a little bit too much on the nervous side. My biggest problem with the sx3 is setting it up... I have 1h30/week playtime with it and changing the sway bars , links etc is a real burden (and an extra option for the later). The belt drive is nice and silent but as they're not protected when I smell something hot/burning at the track I'm always thinking "that's it, something rubed the belts and cought fire, quick to the stop pit..." . And a little heavy (1688gr rtr)

Now I know that both these cars (and the previous ones I owned) are very good in the hands of champions but I wanted to know if one is better than the other in terms of reliability, ease of setting it up and perhaps easier to drive for somebody that has a rather smooth driving style. I'm the sort of driver that has the worst time lap but they're pretty consistent and if there's nobody barging into me I very rarely get off the track.

What information I gathered at the moment is that:
The xb4 is a very classic (boring?) setup easy to maintain, kit is a bit expensive and so are the spares but they probably last forever. A bit worrying is the fact that for exemple the new 2014 edition has changed many part such as the wishbones already ... Normaly the diff wear problem and chock tower fragility has been taken care of with the 2014 edition.
The dex410 seem to be tough (apparently not the first verisons?)and fairly cheap. Setting it up from the manual "seems" nearly as simple as the xb4 (apart the direction servo). There's very little spare room for the electronics.
In sum the thing that makes me lean towards the 410 at the moment is that it still wins some championships so it's extremely capable, it's cheap, easy to change the set up and looks good.

By the way in 2wd I have a TLR22 v2.0 and enjoy it a lot. The 22-4 I'm not interessed because of ball-diffs mainly and it's not due out before a few months apparently also in france (where I live) spare will come at least 1-2 months after the kit release witch I discovered at my expense with the 22 v2.0... The k1 is the same problems as for setting up the sx3 plus the sway bars and plates for the links position are not compatible, truly beautful car but by no mean practical. The yokomo and kyosho are a problem for spares here.

thank you again for your time a patience.

Also I'm french so sorry for the bad writing.

Jonathan