I hear you bud, maintenance is what makes people drop RCing. I discovered RCs through Traxxas and put way too much $$ in my Slash. My kids started to loose interest too and I made the greatest or worse thing I could do and bought a used EB48.4. First time I felt like I'm getting worth my money!
Suddenly downtime wasn't due to a faulty design of poor parts quality, it was on me and on my maintenance schedule only. I sold every RC I had and replaced it with a Tekno truck.
I'm probably a way better driver today than in my early RC days, but I'm in a spot where I leave the track with my stuff being (most of the time) still functional. Of course, I have to cancel a faulty switch here and there, change a sensor array, cleanup stuff all the time... but my stuff keeps going and going.
Just finished my
EB48 2.0 build and need to paint the body. The only reason I got it is because all my other stuff works flawlessly. So decided to get in the fun, retire one of my .4 and get the 2.0. Very happy with my choices so far.
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