M18MT RTR Likes Durability Acceleration even with stock electronics Skittish handling - an absolute riot on loose surfaces Small and lightweight - both car and controller fit in a laptop bag Minimilist design - easy to work on compared to other micros with miniscule parts Dislikes Plastic pivot balls - the slightest bit of dust and the outer carrier balls wear out. To be fit for purpose, outer balls (Type B) should be nickel-plated metal, with the M18T Pro having nickel plated metal balls all-round Front battery hold-down for 6-cell side-by-side packs - Hard crashes generates tremendous leverage on the hold-down, wrenching the screws through the chassis Micro battery connector - even with stock electronics it can arc and seize up, consider Deans Plastic shocks - at the very least these should be o-ring sealed, and on the M18T Pro they should be aluminium threaded as standard. Bore and shaft size could do with increasing too Skittish handling - too unpredictable over loose surfaces for racing. The car needs a little more weight, and given the chassis flexibility, adding thickness to this is an ideal place to add that weight. Also, heating and leaking in the shocks leads to inconsistent performance
Overall, it is a well designed truck. With the shock absorbers, I get the impression that the accountants made that decision since a fine engineer like Hudy should not have let that be. The M18MT was a breath of fresh-air compared to a previous Losi M-LST2 since that seemed to have been built to a advertiser's specification, leading to a complicated truck with components that had simply been scaled-down from 1:8th scale with no consideration to how small and fiddly some parts may become.
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