I bought one , changed tires to 1.9 hydrex w/ metal beadlocks. Trim the body up a bit and added a DSM Kinetic Recovery System. I love it and had no problems with it!👍👍😎
I installed 1.9 hyrax predator with heavy wheels and lowered the height with 3$ shock keys now it can eat heavily modified scxii and and trx4 for lunch
@@laundrieshanging9077 it's a small piece of metal looks like a key with a lot of mounting holes on it ... you can search on banggood or ebay just write scx10 shock key
That is the rig I currently have, but I have extensively upgraded mine. It's a very strong base for a build. That Stealth-X transmission is much stronger than you would think and holds higher power well. I did switch to 1.9" from the factory 1.5" wheel/tire combo. Good video.
Yes, it is suprisingly strong when built right. Mine has an aluminum case from Hot Racing, Factory Team metal gears, along with the Hot Racing overdrive 02 to the front axle. Which gives it 20-25% at the front wheels instead of the stock gears that just underdrive the rear. It has worked out very nicely. Hooked up to MIP driveshafts and Beeftubes axles, it is a stout system while also being durable. I couldn't be happier with the results.
Got my Trailwalker a month ago. Very surprised at the capabilities of this truck. Bought it as a Class 1 or even just as a trail rig. Fixed the body rub by mounting smaller tires! - RCWD 1.5 Wrangler MTRs. Smaller tires add to the scale factor and don’t hurt performance. Also installed a Reefs 422 winch. The out-of-the-box overdrive is a great feature. The lightest and best balanced of my rigs. This weekend I swapped out the rear plastics for the hard stuff (will do the skid and front later) and installed a Reefs anti-sway bar kit - torque twist is virtually eliminated now (it was bad before, especially driving up steep inclines). I’m keeping the stock electronics as long as possible. I’m adding the rear canopy shell, inner fenders, and Lexan interior for looks.
A buddy of mine recently bought one of those. Thing is amazing! I haven't seen it for about a month but we are planning on meeting later for a crawl session
Switch that SC400X to an SC480X ESC. The latter has an optional program card with a reverse adjustment. It'll also run a lower turn motor(10t 3-slot) as opposed to the stock esc(16t 3-slot) on 3-s. Did it with mine and was much better. Currently running a 12t Radon on 3-s with no issues.
Love the wood section of the track. That's kind of what I have planned for my 1/10th scale crawler track out back. I need to finish my 1/24th scale Adventureland first!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Since you ask: I gave the transmitter and/or receiver a fair shot, contacted customer service two or three times about it cutting out, before tossing the combo in the junk drawer. My TW is bound to my DX5C now. (I put a 1080 in it and Holmes motor too, while I was at it, just like my other trucks. This combo spoils you for anything else.)
Great truck out of the box. I am running the stock tf2 wheels on mine. Did a small amount of trimming. I have also replaced the servo and motor. The servo I am using is the eco power wp120 with a 27 then rc4wd motor.
With the trailwalker on sale for $250 for black friday and still on sale some places online, its definitely a better buy than the enduro builder kit for $240. I grabbed one, put some 1.9 beadlocks and 4.7 hyrax and a VS410 halfcab body on mine since the stock body is too tight around the wheel wells for any decent tire size above stock.
Great review and honest opinions. Sorry you had one of the broken grill sets but you soon sorted it and soldiered on like a top class reviewer without bias. First class. Subbed.
13:10 👍 cool,, not to bad for stocks RTR. Well but the radio . I know what I would upgrade first. Good wheels & Tires and Husky Links. Cool stuff big like 👍 .
If you team up with a buddy, you can get 2 of them for $499.00! A ton of potential for $250.00! The body w/ some tree miming and detailing, actually looks ok. The shocks, BTA steering, steering angle, transmission(overdriven out of the box, and 4mm stainless links. Outweigh its shortcomings for sure.
I got mine and had the same thing happen to my grill. I tapped the nubs that were left and added longer screws. Other than that it was pretty impressive.
Thats cool of Mark to let you do a Unboxing&Drive. I bought one extremely early when they came out. Your right...that motor is weak. It's not the esc..its the motor. I put a Mamba X in it hoping to keep improve torque-density with more "throttle-steps" from the X...it didn't help. So I put a Revolver in there. Today I have a huge Pullrr Pro R 540L 4100kv Stroker(stroker because it has a 560-ish size rotor)in it. It does everything awesomely. A little disappointed in Associated for sending a rig out like that. That a quality issue I've never seen happen or mentioned on any forum. Must've been a "Hangover Monday" rig or a "Friday" rig. Hahaha
Thanks for the review. I am very new to rc world, only have some scx24s. I want to enter the 1/10 crawler world..just trying to figure out the best way to get started. Everyone says kit and get good electronics. It's all so confusing to me trying to figure out what kit goes with what components...without wasting money on unnecessary parts.
I almost bought one of these recently but decided on the Axial Wraith 2.2 instead. The reasons I went with the Wraith was that I had never heard of Element before and wasn't sure parts were going to be available for a good amount of time, and the stock wheels are only 1.55 size instead of 1.9 or 2.2. But it was a tough choice. Then later I wallowed out the pin slot in the back of my wheel hubs within the first 3 minutes of running the axial and now I'm waiting for aluminum 12mm hexes.... lol
1 reason to replace motor with stock is this has a 5 pole motor stock. Seems like most RTR motors are traditional 3 pole. I can't vouch for sure that it's a better motor or not but it's a great price and is running great in my Capra.
@@ExocagedRC daaang that's cheap! Is that with ball bearings on both ends? That's the only thing that could possibly make it a better choice for $10 more. But if the holmes has ball bearing on one end only, that'd be a tough decision...
Loving this channel. Gonna have to start popping in here before I put in my orders from amain from now on. Any plans for more videos with the scx10 iii in the future?
Apparently the broken grill was a factory issue, i bought one and it was the same way right out of the box, broken exactly the same. I just used longer screws to put it back on
Hello can you please help with a dilemma? I want to buy a new crawler truck. I already have a trx4 with minor upgrades like servo, esc, lighter proline body, better front bumper, locked diffs and I really love the performance of the car. It's not gonna win championships but that's not my intention. My budget is like 500 euros to begin with, afterwards I can upgrade but I want a decent car to start with. I prefer a kit cause I never build a crawler and I can use the experience. I was thinking the redcat gen 8 pack, élément enduro kit or maybe mst cfx w. I live in belgium so prices are little different. The redcat and element are each 250eu as kit. The mst is like 359-399 depending the body. I really love the mst body's, awesome. Or maybe just another trx4 (sport or not). It's just so hard to choose. I want a decent car to begin with. I already have a decent 4ch transmitter and 6ch receiver so I just need a hw1080, motor and a servo, that's around 80-100€ so I have 400 left for a kit. Please give me your opinion or give me at least a direction 🤣 thanks mate. Happy new year and stay safe
@@1LACOSRC scx 10.2 kit is like 200eu. It's not a bad car but it's older and it's just way to expensive for what you get.. And the 10.3 is not really my thing with the ugly body and it's also expensive for what you get. Trx4 is almost 5 years old but is still the best rtr crawler and nooo I'm not a Traxxas fan 🤣 element, gmade, hpi, Tamiya, Traxxas, axial, rc4wd, crossrc, carisma, mst and so much more.. It's hard to choose the best for your money 🤔🍻
@@harrysrcchannel5651 If you were to get the TRX4 Sport kit you could swap some parts between the TRX4s to save some money and get the right build for you. I hate wasting parts. For rock crawling the magic mod is overdrive/underdrive gears. Just an FYI. Have fun!!!
@@loum7008 the element enduro builders kit already comes with stock overdrive options so that's positive. The mst has such a nice body but little bit of play at the drivetrain. The redcat is just to expensive compared to America. Trx4 is great but I want something else. Maybe the sport kit with a mst body. Sport rtr is 399, the kit 319 🤔 hard choices 🤣
The not including hard plastic parts is a very common thing in racing 1/10 buggies but just absolutely dumb in crawling but element is team associated after all. They thought they could get away with the same crap everyone pulls with racing buggies. X-Ray started that trend and then everyone followed suit. It's been marketed as a "tuning option" on the buggy racing side. Hopefully they learned their lesson since the gatekeeper is now hard plastics stock.
7:00 Yup, as I keep telling everyone, don't buy this truck if you live where rocks are the size of baseballs, or there are roots and branches to crawl over. Those pumpkins are awful, and the small tires make trailing a nightmare. BUT, if your terrain consists of big smooth, rolling boulders, go for it. LIke most people, I took out the Lexan scissors and slapped 1.9s on mine. Great value for the buck, but you do have to replace the steering servo.
@@daveminor8762 I installed it in a new Gen8 PACK prior to realizing a design flaw where the servo horn is upfront and exposed to striking rocks. The main bearing got destroyed, and a new bearing only helped a little, since the indentation in the upper casing that holds the bearing was egg-shaped. Redcat's fault, not the servo. I have since fabbed up a servo horn protector for that rig, too late, alas, for the 35.
Just picked up one of these trucks myself. Just posted a video of taking it for a woods ride with some bigger tires and beadlocks......feel free to check it out !
I'm actually kind of disappointed with these trucks. I know it's a class 1 but I don't think it does as good as many of the other class 1 rigs out there. I also think that body isnt to great. Like it isn't quite on par with a trx4 sport body. The body rubbing is terrible. A box stock rtr shouldn't run like that.
I'm with you. A TRX4 Sport with servo and tires is hard to beat for a RTR. Since I have a heavily modified TRX4 Sport and a lightly modded TRX4 Merc 4x4 this does look like a great option for something different at a lower price point. The new Redcat V2 seems like a great choice too.
@@old-rcplane-phart The Sport out performes the Enduro, old technology or not. Thats like saying since something is new its better, just because its new.
I bought one , changed tires to 1.9 hydrex w/ metal beadlocks. Trim the body up a bit and added a DSM Kinetic Recovery System. I love it and had no problems with it!👍👍😎
Not expecting that... Pretty impressive for a box stock "class one" rtr. Got to get one of these...on sale.
Great video also.
I installed 1.9 hyrax predator with heavy wheels and lowered the height with 3$ shock keys now it can eat heavily modified scxii and and trx4 for lunch
Whats a shock key mate??
@@laundrieshanging9077 it's a small piece of metal looks like a key with a lot of mounting holes on it ... you can search on banggood or ebay just write scx10 shock key
That is the rig I currently have, but I have extensively upgraded mine. It's a very strong base for a build. That Stealth-X transmission is much stronger than you would think and holds higher power well. I did switch to 1.9" from the factory 1.5" wheel/tire combo. Good video.
I like the trans quite a bit. I’ve put one in a few trucks but haven’t left it in there.
Yes, it is suprisingly strong when built right. Mine has an aluminum case from Hot Racing, Factory Team metal gears, along with the Hot Racing overdrive 02 to the front axle. Which gives it 20-25% at the front wheels instead of the stock gears that just underdrive the rear. It has worked out very nicely. Hooked up to MIP driveshafts and Beeftubes axles, it is a stout system while also being durable. I couldn't be happier with the results.
Got my Trailwalker a month ago. Very surprised at the capabilities of this truck. Bought it as a Class 1 or even just as a trail rig. Fixed the body rub by mounting smaller tires! - RCWD 1.5 Wrangler MTRs. Smaller tires add to the scale factor and don’t hurt performance. Also installed a Reefs 422 winch. The out-of-the-box overdrive is a great feature. The lightest and best balanced of my rigs. This weekend I swapped out the rear plastics for the hard stuff (will do the skid and front later) and installed a Reefs anti-sway bar kit - torque twist is virtually eliminated now (it was bad before, especially driving up steep inclines). I’m keeping the stock electronics as long as possible. I’m adding the rear canopy shell, inner fenders, and Lexan interior for looks.
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A buddy of mine recently bought one of those. Thing is amazing! I haven't seen it for about a month but we are planning on meeting later for a crawl session
Ur video helps me justify running these at my age im glad im 30 and not the only guy that loves crawlers!
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I just got one the other day and i put some 1.7 wranglers on some 1.9 beadlocks and it performs amazingly well👍
Definitely been eyeing this rig as my next purchase back into crawling
They respond extremely well to 1.9 tire mods and a esc/motor swap. Great wheelbase
@@laundrieshanging9077 appreciate that information 🤘🏾💯
Switch that SC400X to an SC480X ESC. The latter has an optional program card with a reverse adjustment. It'll also run a lower turn motor(10t 3-slot) as opposed to the stock esc(16t 3-slot) on 3-s. Did it with mine and was much better. Currently running a 12t Radon on 3-s with no issues.
Love the wood section of the track. That's kind of what I have planned for my 1/10th scale crawler track out back. I need to finish my 1/24th scale Adventureland first!! 👍👍👍👍👍
I love my Trailwalker. Mine was binded. Scalerfab front and rear bumper are a must.
Since you ask: I gave the transmitter and/or receiver a fair shot, contacted customer service two or three times about it cutting out, before tossing the combo in the junk drawer. My TW is bound to my DX5C now. (I put a 1080 in it and Holmes motor too, while I was at it, just like my other trucks. This combo spoils you for anything else.)
Yeah awesome pieces in there
I actually bought the body to this truck off of a buddy of mine . Cause I like how loud it is . Great Review 👊👊👊👊
LMAO
12:47 was a beauty of a shot. I like the faux antenna, it adds more realism than I thought it would, should be more bendy.
Nice video! Love the X-Maxx!
Saw a couple out on the trail today. Did nicely with C2 tires.
Great truck out of the box. I am running the stock tf2 wheels on mine. Did a small amount of trimming. I have also replaced the servo and motor. The servo I am using is the eco power wp120 with a 27 then rc4wd motor.
With the trailwalker on sale for $250 for black friday and still on sale some places online, its definitely a better buy than the enduro builder kit for $240. I grabbed one, put some 1.9 beadlocks and 4.7 hyrax and a VS410 halfcab body on mine since the stock body is too tight around the wheel wells for any decent tire size above stock.
Great review and honest opinions. Sorry you had one of the broken grill sets but you soon sorted it and soldiered on like a top class reviewer without bias. First class. Subbed.
Love the noises when it's rubbing!!!! Course looks absolutely awesome!!!!! 👍👍👍👊👊👊👊
13:10 👍 cool,, not to bad for stocks RTR. Well but the radio .
I know what I would upgrade first.
Good wheels & Tires and Husky Links. Cool stuff big like 👍 .
If you team up with a buddy, you can get 2 of them for $499.00! A ton of potential for $250.00! The body w/ some tree miming and detailing, actually looks ok. The shocks, BTA steering, steering angle, transmission(overdriven out of the box, and 4mm stainless links. Outweigh its shortcomings for sure.
It is a neat truck.
I got mine and had the same thing happen to my grill. I tapped the nubs that were left and added longer screws. Other than that it was pretty impressive.
Well you ve convinced me👍😀 on order and waiting for the proline cliffhanger body to go on it👍👍😀
Thats cool of Mark to let you do a Unboxing&Drive.
I bought one extremely early when they came out. Your right...that motor is weak. It's not the esc..its the motor. I put a Mamba X in it hoping to keep improve torque-density with more "throttle-steps" from the X...it didn't help. So I put a Revolver in there. Today I have a huge Pullrr Pro R 540L 4100kv Stroker(stroker because it has a 560-ish size rotor)in it. It does everything awesomely.
A little disappointed in Associated for sending a rig out like that. That a quality issue I've never seen happen or mentioned on any forum.
Must've been a "Hangover Monday" rig or a "Friday" rig.
Hahaha
Yeah it’s rare i unbox like that but I’m glad I did. LoL.
Thanks for the review. I am very new to rc world, only have some scx24s. I want to enter the 1/10 crawler world..just trying to figure out the best way to get started. Everyone says kit and get good electronics. It's all so confusing to me trying to figure out what kit goes with what components...without wasting money on unnecessary parts.
Looks like a decent little truck for the money, quite like the body even though it's not licensed
I really like the body on this truck
I almost bought one of these recently but decided on the Axial Wraith 2.2 instead. The reasons I went with the Wraith was that I had never heard of Element before and wasn't sure parts were going to be available for a good amount of time, and the stock wheels are only 1.55 size instead of 1.9 or 2.2. But it was a tough choice.
Then later I wallowed out the pin slot in the back of my wheel hubs within the first 3 minutes of running the axial and now I'm waiting for aluminum 12mm hexes.... lol
Hmmmm broken radio and headlight mount, I suspect the box was dropped a few times. I like this rig!!!
Most likely
1 reason to replace motor with stock is this has a 5 pole motor stock. Seems like most RTR motors are traditional 3 pole. I can't vouch for sure that it's a better motor or not but it's a great price and is running great in my Capra.
Well, the Holmes has 5slot 540 motors for $15.
@@ExocagedRC daaang that's cheap! Is that with ball bearings on both ends? That's the only thing that could possibly make it a better choice for $10 more. But if the holmes has ball bearing on one end only, that'd be a tough decision...
My grill was broken in a similar fashion. Had to use a longer screw to fix it .
Loving this channel. Gonna have to start popping in here before I put in my orders from amain from now on.
Any plans for more videos with the scx10 iii in the future?
I have one. This truck can hang and beat the big boys.
Nice truck 👍😊
Apparently the broken grill was a factory issue, i bought one and it was the same way right out of the box, broken exactly the same. I just used longer screws to put it back on
Great video!
As usual a good review!
I got the same truck for my older son.he went to unbox it.his grill was broken as well.
Ranger with a scout looking grill
It's upgradeable for stronger built parts, like a custom truck with pure speed and climbing trial testing, cool ideas for the (ENDURO.☕🤔)
Not bad atall👊🏾
Put a link in the description for the motors
Which one do you want?
@@ExocagedRC do every motor link, all that you use
@@ExocagedRC and they ESCs,
@@ExocagedRC also can you do a review on the "redcat ridgerock" if you haven't already done it
Is exponential like supposed to pulse the throttle.
My radio has it but I think it has 1 exponential setting 🤔
No, expo isn’t supposed to do that
@@ExocagedRC
Sry one of the settings on my controller pulses while braking. My bad I looked at it. Why I wonder.
It’s a flysky gt3b
Turn off ABS
@@ExocagedRC
Ohhhhhh Yeahh Lol oops.
Thanks dude. That was a great help. 👊😀👍
Hello can you please help with a dilemma? I want to buy a new crawler truck. I already have a trx4 with minor upgrades like servo, esc, lighter proline body, better front bumper, locked diffs and I really love the performance of the car. It's not gonna win championships but that's not my intention. My budget is like 500 euros to begin with, afterwards I can upgrade but I want a decent car to start with. I prefer a kit cause I never build a crawler and I can use the experience. I was thinking the redcat gen 8 pack, élément enduro kit or maybe mst cfx w. I live in belgium so prices are little different. The redcat and element are each 250eu as kit. The mst is like 359-399 depending the body. I really love the mst body's, awesome. Or maybe just another trx4 (sport or not). It's just so hard to choose. I want a decent car to begin with. I already have a decent 4ch transmitter and 6ch receiver so I just need a hw1080, motor and a servo, that's around 80-100€ so I have 400 left for a kit. Please give me your opinion or give me at least a direction 🤣 thanks mate. Happy new year and stay safe
I'm in the same boat as you my friend I think I've decided to go with the scx 10 2 raw Builders kit gonna try to build my own superlight 👍
10.2 & element kits are both solid foundations with huge parts support. Cant go wrong with either kit🤙
@@1LACOSRC scx 10.2 kit is like 200eu. It's not a bad car but it's older and it's just way to expensive for what you get.. And the 10.3 is not really my thing with the ugly body and it's also expensive for what you get. Trx4 is almost 5 years old but is still the best rtr crawler and nooo I'm not a Traxxas fan 🤣 element, gmade, hpi, Tamiya, Traxxas, axial, rc4wd, crossrc, carisma, mst and so much more.. It's hard to choose the best for your money 🤔🍻
@@harrysrcchannel5651 If you were to get the TRX4 Sport kit you could swap some parts between the TRX4s to save some money and get the right build for you. I hate wasting parts. For rock crawling the magic mod is overdrive/underdrive gears. Just an FYI. Have fun!!!
@@loum7008 the element enduro builders kit already comes with stock overdrive options so that's positive. The mst has such a nice body but little bit of play at the drivetrain. The redcat is just to expensive compared to America. Trx4 is great but I want something else. Maybe the sport kit with a mst body. Sport rtr is 399, the kit 319 🤔 hard choices 🤣
The not including hard plastic parts is a very common thing in racing 1/10 buggies but just absolutely dumb in crawling but element is team associated after all. They thought they could get away with the same crap everyone pulls with racing buggies. X-Ray started that trend and then everyone followed suit. It's been marketed as a "tuning option" on the buggy racing side. Hopefully they learned their lesson since the gatekeeper is now hard plastics stock.
Those headlights..... Need some help. Could be the daylight??
Mark watching the video like👁👄👁
7:00 Yup, as I keep telling everyone, don't buy this truck if you live where rocks are the size of baseballs, or there are roots and branches to crawl over. Those pumpkins are awful, and the small tires make trailing a nightmare. BUT, if your terrain consists of big smooth, rolling boulders, go for it. LIke most people, I took out the Lexan scissors and slapped 1.9s on mine. Great value for the buck, but you do have to replace the steering servo.
What happened to the servo? I might be having issues with mine and I’d like to narrow down what problems mine is having.
@@daveminor8762 I installed it in a new Gen8 PACK prior to realizing a design flaw where the servo horn is upfront and exposed to striking rocks. The main bearing got destroyed, and a new bearing only helped a little, since the indentation in the upper casing that holds the bearing was egg-shaped. Redcat's fault, not the servo. I have since fabbed up a servo horn protector for that rig, too late, alas, for the 35.
Just picked up one of these trucks myself. Just posted a video of taking it for a woods ride with some bigger tires and beadlocks......feel free to check it out !
I'm actually kind of disappointed with these trucks. I know it's a class 1 but I don't think it does as good as many of the other class 1 rigs out there. I also think that body isnt to great. Like it isn't quite on par with a trx4 sport body. The body rubbing is terrible. A box stock rtr shouldn't run like that.
Associated (Element) should keep this at $250
I'd buy 1 right now at that price 👍
@@sprather84 still on sale at RPP Hobby at $250usd - they claim 1 in stock
@@JustinDDavis good lookin out bro gonna check into it
@@sprather84 follow the affiliate link posted in the video
@@sprather84 even AMain still has them at $250
It got named to Trail Wanker!
LoL yeah
These trucks need very little mods.
Looks decent, but id rather have a trx 4 Sport.
Why? Old technology.
I'm with you. A TRX4 Sport with servo and tires is hard to beat for a RTR. Since I have a heavily modified TRX4 Sport and a lightly modded TRX4 Merc 4x4 this does look like a great option for something different at a lower price point. The new Redcat V2 seems like a great choice too.
@@old-rcplane-phart The Sport out performes the Enduro, old technology or not. Thats like saying since something is new its better, just because its new.
Underwhelming and that controller is the worst. Maybe a kit would make me get one.
Remember everyone: NO portal axles! AE/element is proof you have been brainwashed about portal axles! NOT a "need" factor IF u have quality! 👍
What’s quality have to do with portal axles? Lol The element trucks are easily the least quality feeling trucks out of the box.
Give me 1 off yor rc,, iwnt