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I respect your reply, and your more positive spin. Though I can easily sum up your main points here:
In the end, I'm glad you're happy and have reached a point of more reliability. And I do 100% understand the business case, I'm a business owner myself. However, if I put out after 3 revisions this kind of product especially on a big launch like the Grave Digger when even Dennis Anderson is getting a hold of them, I myself would be a little ashamed. There's no way these issues are new, and they aren't ... just scroll the forums on this site only. Other places like the Facebook group share similar complaints.
So all in all, I'm not bashing you ... but your response here is a little off base, and mildly "offensive" simply because you've contradicted yourself in your own post and there's ample evidence I'm not the only one with these issues. A couple granted are very minor, but on the whole, with all problems and solutions together it's a big deal. Especially the issue with servos dying mid-run, and wiring harnesses sporadically burning out. It's F'ing dangerous on an 80lbs truck!
- You say from the start I was "trying to hunt for ... and engineer solutions that hadn't arose yet". You stated in your very own reply here, you did the exact same thing looking around on forums and applying solutions while spending time carefully assembling and "did the mods most of us identified and saw a need for". You simultaneously state that essentially my experience is not the same as the group? My experience even by your standards is exactly the same as the group. Even John Park's build threads prove that, as well as others on here.
- I'm glad you've gotten yours to the point where every 5-6 months you do a full teardown and it's reliable (aside from I guess you're admitting you have to strip the front and rear to replace busted shock bushings on a semi or regular basis?). My list here is of major issues to solve, short of upgraded things like the engine. Everything else I'm confused ... the servos are a known issue, another member mentioned all the glitching issues with the wiring harness and the fact that you have to toggle the stock switch multiple times to turn the truck on sporadically. It's all here on the forums. How am I unique in this and "hunting for new solutions?"
In the end, I'm glad you're happy and have reached a point of more reliability. And I do 100% understand the business case, I'm a business owner myself. However, if I put out after 3 revisions this kind of product especially on a big launch like the Grave Digger when even Dennis Anderson is getting a hold of them, I myself would be a little ashamed. There's no way these issues are new, and they aren't ... just scroll the forums on this site only. Other places like the Facebook group share similar complaints.
So all in all, I'm not bashing you ... but your response here is a little off base, and mildly "offensive" simply because you've contradicted yourself in your own post and there's ample evidence I'm not the only one with these issues. A couple granted are very minor, but on the whole, with all problems and solutions together it's a big deal. Especially the issue with servos dying mid-run, and wiring harnesses sporadically burning out. It's F'ing dangerous on an 80lbs truck!
It's OK, not great. By comparison ... I have a DBXL 2 and short of me playing around trying to tune the suspension to work better, and fixing the leaking gas tank and a couple other missing screws supplied out of the box, I've never actually managed to break a single thing and I take the thing out multiple times and drive it HARD, shut it off, and pull it back out again. Don't have to replace a single damn thing on it. Truth be told ... the DBXL 2 after way less money is 10x more reliable. I have absolutely no concern or worry I'll pull that out, and then "poop ... I have to pull it apart AGAIN to replace something?".
