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I went through and searched for a similar post, but couldn’t find anything. Forgive me if I missed something….

To all the Losi 5T owners out there- What is your average running/operating cost to run and maintain a 5T. Since everyone’s use varies, give me your best guess of $/hour excluding fuel costs.

Please and thank you.

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dirby said:
this all depends on how you run it and how often you run it.
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Assuming an every other day use. Use case would be general bashing nothing too hard, no constructed jumps, but cartwheels and oops there’s a tree would be common.
 
I never thought I'd see a question like this be asked about rc cars. This isn't a fleet operation running 10 OTR semis, it's a hobby and there really isn't a price equation for happiness.

To sum it up for you there's no dollar per hour with 5th scale, it's the bill when things break and that can happen often depending on how you drive and treat the 5ive or it can be fairly wallet friendly if you don't abuse the crap out of it. Mostly the money starts to add up when you modify it.
 
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Rep732 said:
I never thought I'd see a question like this be asked about rc cars. This isn't a fleet operation running 10 OTR semis, it's a hobby and there really isn't a price equation for happiness.

To sum it up for you there's no dollar per hour with 5th scale, it's the bill when things break and that can happen often depending on how you drive and treat the 5ive or it can be fairly wallet friendly if you don't abuse the crap out of it. Mostly the money starts to add up when you modify it.
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Well think again because I asked it… but really I was just trying to get an idea of true cost of ownership. I have a Traxxas sledge. I beat the poop out of it, fix it, and beat the poop out of it again. It’s not a healthy relationship. But I digress, I have a general idea what that car costs on an ongoing basis between tires and parts breaking… just looking for some basic guidance. If it’s easier to say it’s not $500/hr than that works too. Is it less than $100/hr?

Or you could just say, “booger fart poop” and I will get the point that it’s like asking what is South of the South Pole.
 
There's not cost per hour which is very strange you ask this, what's your sledge cost per hour? It's a hobby rig man and like i said for the last time it's the incured cost at the point of the bill when something breaks. I get it we are free to view things as we like but your view on cost per hour is bogus and it's the wrong mentality coming into 5th scale to run a 5th scale like a business as cost per hour as your view just simply does not exist in this scale hobby.
 
Rep732 said:
@dirby
I challenge anyone here to give an accurate cost per hour to run a 5th scale. I bet nobody can because cost incured is when things break and need to be replaced and since he excluded fuel there's nothing until it needs replaced
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I’d estimate the Cost to be higher for me in the winter. $2500/hour. Just guessing though.
 
since you're familiar with the sledge just compare prices in parts and it adds up quick. as far as per hour that's pretty hard. an hour without breaking anything will be a quart of gas and few spoons of 2 cycle oil. an hour with broken chasis, suspension arm and blown engine completely different.
 
I purchased a wrecked DBXL. The previous owner hit the base of a light pole in a parking lot at full throttle. So far I am approximately $200 dollars in parts to repair it. Just ran it for the first time yesterday. Now if I would have used upgraded parts it would have been a lot more expensive. They are tough rigs.
 
Not that this should even matter, but I've gone on quite a few outings and nothing broke. Lately it's been a bunch of wide open parking lot running since the park is closed so just the cost of fuel amd keeping the battery charged. If I compared it to four wheeling back in the day it's dirt cheap. A 2 day wheeling trip to Rouch creek would typically cost around $500.00 more if a tire got damaged beyond repair or anything broke on the truck, let alone fuel cost foe the truck and tow rig. This hobby is dirt cheap.
 
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