Tomley, props to you. I'm a massive RC4WD fan (apart from their faffy way of getting the body on and off) but I also massively appreciate your honesty with how you found the truck and the quality of it despite it presumably being sent to you graciously by them. Some would sing their praises just because of that fact, but it's much more endearing to not. Makes you and your chanel a much more trustworthy source! 👍
The shocks might feel a little bouncy because the first spring is soft for flexibility and the 2nd is for impact/weight to prevent bottoming out when you take a jump. I don't know why ALL race off road vehicles or trail trucks don't have them. KT has an issue with his raminator bottoming out, bending shocks because he's using the shock instead of springs to carry the load. Shocks are ONLY supposed to dampen the spring action. The springs are supposed to carry the weight of the vehicle. Most passenger vehicles and light trucks ALL have dual rate springs. Take a look: loose/few windings at the bottom then they get closer together at the top....that's so when heavy aunt bessie gets on board you don't bottom out the suspension lol.....
I love the C2X, but only after I switched the electronics over to a Momba Micro X2 and a Holmes stubby 2200kv and a Reefs Raw 500 servo. I swapped the shocks over to Proline Scaler 90mm and the tires to the Proline Krawlers in predator compound wrapped around aluminum beadlocks. I added the Scalerfab winch front bumper with an RC4WD winch and it is one of my favorite trucks now.
I love my c2x, I bought the bed, shock mounts and sliders from ierc and swapped the axles for Capra portals and Dlux fab shocks and it is an absolute beast. Probably my favorite rig that I own.
There's another reason I've been a loyal follower of this channel and that's that I really enjoy your taste in music. It's rare I don't enjoy the accompaniment. Is bass guitar 'your' instrument, Phil? (old hand guitarist, here)
Sitting here reading all the Traxxial fans get upset cause this isn’t a plastic piece of crap with portals. Love it!!! I’d take this thing on blocks before I’d ever own another plastic fantastic Traxxial garbage.
A great looking truck, and a really nicely considered review. Good and bad, is always good to hear. Love the colour combo, with your green over the stock grey body. Really nice. 😎🤘🏻
This is an excellent review. Your team colors looked good, I don't know much about crawling, but that pin about ready to fall out would be the biggest problem in my opinion. It's a very good looking rig.
I find with RC4WD products you need to go over all the hardware and make sure it’s tight. I have the Marlin crawler and straight out of the gate upgraded the steering servo and ESC. Their leaf spring kits are super scale but need mods straight out of the box to perform. Get used to losing those corner lenses. I’ve replaced both sides and even glued them in and still lost another one! Cheers!
I thinks its a good fun starting point but maybe for UK Class 1, would just need 4.19 tires and maybe a better servo then you are good to go - was a good day out too, thanks for the invite.
It’s hard to find a clean Toyota truck here in Iowa too. They all turned into rust here in the Midwest because of salt on the roads in the winter.. I’d love to have an 80’s hi lux lifted with 33’s on it.
Really honest review, i dont think its worth the 499. If you save up for that (whatever age you are) open it and find rust and easily catchable quality control failures, it would make me doubt the quality of the things i cant see.
You've got to have a trip to Australia. I could walk 5 minutes down the street and find one of those hiluxes easily. It's quite funny how hard it is to get hiluxes everywhere except here. It's interesting how these rc4wd cars still run on nimh batteries.
If the current price I’d 499, then I’d rather get a TRX4. More features and portal axles from factory. Even the trx4 sport is 100 cheaper and has portals. Anyway, thanks for the content Phil.
If you don't shim the gears in the axles they will go bang very quickly, also you will need to helicoil the steering hubs they strip very easily. But other than that its not a bad rig at all
Thank you I had seen the box in the background in a previous video super happy for the review thank you I’ve been looking at this as my first RC4WD. I’m hoping to maybe see it on sale it was around the holidays it’s kind of pricey would you say it was worth the $ overall. I’d definitely be replacing the electronics so that’s something to figure in.
if you use grub screws in the body mount you can just stretch the body over them instead of unscrewing the screws all the time, Rc4wd don't know what loctite is so be prepared for a lot of loose screws.
Nice video Phil, thanks! 👍 🙏 I'm not sure how much "300oz/in" stands for in kg, but the servo may not be the main culprit for the weak steering. I believe the Hobbywing 1060 can't offer high voltage BEC, so a different ESC may be able to use the servo's full power..:)
Ya know ,, for straight out of the box it didn’t do too bad , I think with a few tweaks it could be decent, not sure if it’s just my eyes but I feel it could do with the chassis extending .
Stick Class 1 hyrax on it, and it would certainly do better in Class 1. Looks stunning, like the dual spring shock (shame about the oil situation) Ni-cad battery will also not hold up in comp, i am guessing 2s lipo wakes it up a bit. The Treal wheels look sweet and that extra low down weight will really help with the hard body. Really does remind me of "Brawn" my RGT ex86010 jk with a hard body swap.
Hey there Phil, love the front two thirds but the rear bed leaves me wanting, I really don’t like that rear bed, imho it just looks silly 😜, i know it serves a purpose for competitions, buuuuutttttttt? Niiiiiiiiiiice old video Anyoldwho.😊
Que tal amigo Phil...excelente crawler muy acertado en los colores verde/gris con unos mejores neumáticos seria más capaz en espera de un próximo video saludos desde México 👍
I think that for 500 thats too steep considering the changes that need to be made servo etc, looks great just not as much bang for the buck as id like, id prob choose another model
Buy a WPL for $60 a never worry about the hardbody , and get 5x as much fun for the money. and then after you thrashed it you can spend hobby class money for upgrades into a metal comp crawler. and for the price of this thing? you can do it 3 times over and still have enough money left for lunch at a steakhouse
I'm looking for something to exercise my dogs, going to be a field so there is a few rocks and could be tall grass. Never owned a RC that's not complete garbage... Any suggestions? Budget maybe £500 but if I don't have to spend that much I'm happier :) Thanks.
Tomley, props to you. I'm a massive RC4WD fan (apart from their faffy way of getting the body on and off) but I also massively appreciate your honesty with how you found the truck and the quality of it despite it presumably being sent to you graciously by them. Some would sing their praises just because of that fact, but it's much more endearing to not. Makes you and your chanel a much more trustworthy source! 👍
Thanks dude. I try to be fair… but will never cover up and issues.
The shocks might feel a little bouncy because the first spring is soft for flexibility and the 2nd is for impact/weight to prevent bottoming out when you take a jump.
I don't know why ALL race off road vehicles or trail trucks don't have them.
KT has an issue with his raminator bottoming out, bending shocks because he's using the shock instead of springs to carry the load. Shocks are ONLY supposed to dampen the spring action. The springs are supposed to carry the weight of the vehicle.
Most passenger vehicles and light trucks ALL have dual rate springs. Take a look: loose/few windings at the bottom then they get closer together at the top....that's so when heavy aunt bessie gets on board you don't bottom out the suspension lol.....
Good info 👌
It looks cool with the flat gray and green colors! Those colors are made to match up!
Tomley's channel just keeps growing, remember i was here from the very beginning!!
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Really like it,these things look great on the trails as a scale truck, oh and bad weather is the best weather for crawling/trailing 😀😀👌👌👍
Yes, although not got on rocks… they get a bit slippery 😅
I love the C2X, but only after I switched the electronics over to a Momba Micro X2 and a Holmes stubby 2200kv and a Reefs Raw 500 servo. I swapped the shocks over to Proline Scaler 90mm and the tires to the Proline Krawlers in predator compound wrapped around aluminum beadlocks. I added the Scalerfab winch front bumper with an RC4WD winch and it is one of my favorite trucks now.
I love my c2x, I bought the bed, shock mounts and sliders from ierc and swapped the axles for Capra portals and Dlux fab shocks and it is an absolute beast. Probably my favorite rig that I own.
Hi Phil I have the Marlin crawler (🙏🏻RIP)This Company make great trucks parts/ upgrades. Thanks for posting Phil AMAZING QUALITY Company 🇬🇧🇺🇲🕊️✌🏼👍🏼
Yes.. RIP indeed. There quality control seems an issue… but they certainly make some awesome looking rigs
There's another reason I've been a loyal follower of this channel and that's that I really enjoy your taste in music. It's rare I don't enjoy the accompaniment. Is bass guitar 'your' instrument, Phil? (old hand guitarist, here)
Sitting here reading all the Traxxial fans get upset cause this isn’t a plastic piece of crap with portals. Love it!!!
I’d take this thing on blocks before I’d ever own another plastic fantastic Traxxial garbage.
Some of the hardcore Traxxas fans are pretty hard to convince 😅
So cute. Little men playing with their kids toys.
So cute, little men commenting on a video of little men playing with their kids toys 😍
A great looking truck, and a really nicely considered review. Good and bad, is always good to hear. Love the colour combo, with your green over the stock grey body. Really nice. 😎🤘🏻
Yes, turned out nice. Not the best performer… but looks really nice and scale and does ‘okay’
Perfect lunch break vid while students were away. Cheers
Great looking truck but quite expensive compared to a lot other stuff on the market.great review as always mate
There is a learning curve to rc4wd crawlers. But you end loving them for sure. My TF2 is not the most capable but the most enjoyable in my fleet…
Pretty nice looking truck indeed, Phil! 😃
Fantastic ride and review!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks dude.
The green wheels look great on there with the green stripes
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It's a Toyota! of course it's rusty already.. lol! Beautiful truck and great video!
Haha
I KNEW IT, I spotted it on your bench in a previous video. I've been looking at these as my next crawler
Excellent overview, it certainly looks the part...few points to consider as you clearly mention, great video 👍🏻
Nice new crawler Tomley!!
This is an excellent review. Your team colors looked good, I don't know much about crawling, but that pin about ready to fall out would be the biggest problem in my opinion. It's a very good looking rig.
If that pin had come out on the rocks… it’s the end of your day out… so yeah, not great
5:21 the stripe is SO 80's toyota.......very retro look there phil!!
I love your crawler videos. Always learning something from them.
Cheers dude
Nice work Phil, looks ok. Do find RC4WD expensive..
One thing for sure, this thing looks awesome 👌 especially when you added some green.
Nice looking truck, good job Phil.
Maybe you could do a video on what makes a Comp 2 or Comp 1 vehicle?
It’s about tire/wheel size, and how far the wheels stick outside of the fenders basically.
As a dealer I can honestly say the C2x is a real allrounder!
cmon you could have a arrma granite and a rlarrlo ak 787 and a batterie for what they want for this truck lol
@mikeeklund18 who gives.. it's always your own likings.
Haven’t even watched the video but I like that crawler!!
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I find with RC4WD products you need to go over all the hardware and make sure it’s tight. I have the Marlin crawler and straight out of the gate upgraded the steering servo and ESC. Their leaf spring kits are super scale but need mods straight out of the box to perform. Get used to losing those corner lenses. I’ve replaced both sides and even glued them in and still lost another one! Cheers!
Because of you (and my local Hobby Shop having one in stock) I bought an Element BUSHIDO after watching this video and seeing that clip again 😂
I thinks its a good fun starting point but maybe for UK Class 1, would just need 4.19 tires and maybe a better servo then you are good to go - was a good day out too, thanks for the invite.
Yes agree… not really going to be competitive, but looks good 😅
Looks like a Wild Willy figure driving it. Looks awesome.
Good vid as always. It does look cool. It may not be an issue, but I don't like those open gears. Muggins here would be bound to get crap in there.
They’ve been using that design for over 10 years now… I’ve owned probably 20+ of their trucks and never had a single gear fail. They’re pretty stout
It’s hard to find a clean Toyota truck here in Iowa too. They all turned into rust here in the Midwest because of salt on the roads in the winter.. I’d love to have an 80’s hi lux lifted with 33’s on it.
Well… shortly after this video… I may have found something. You’ll have to wait and see 😎
Really honest review, i dont think its worth the 499. If you save up for that (whatever age you are) open it and find rust and easily catchable quality control failures, it would make me doubt the quality of the things i cant see.
They have seen the video… let’s hope they try and make it better
Another great fun and useful piece of content. Thank you
Cheers Chris
I have several of their trucks and love the scale looks- great review as always Phil!
Just WOW. When you spend almost $500 on a truck you should at least expect it to have a LiPo
Have you tried out the Vanquish RTR yet? Similar price point but seems better...
You've got to have a trip to Australia. I could walk 5 minutes down the street and find one of those hiluxes easily. It's quite funny how hard it is to get hiluxes everywhere except here. It's interesting how these rc4wd cars still run on nimh batteries.
Visiting Australia will help with identifying the "what ever that one is" power adapter too 😆
If the current price I’d 499, then I’d rather get a TRX4. More features and portal axles from factory. Even the trx4 sport is 100 cheaper and has portals. Anyway, thanks for the content Phil.
awesome video,Love what you did with the body.
Cheers mate… came out nice! Although got scratched pretty quick on them rocks lol
If you don't shim the gears in the axles they will go bang very quickly, also you will need to helicoil the steering hubs they strip very easily.
But other than that its not a bad rig at all
As with any Rc4wd best to strip it down and thread lock every bolt and grease the diffs
Stickers were perfect 😂👍🏻
That's looks absolutely mint..👍🇬🇧😎
Thank you I had seen the box in the background in a previous video super happy for the review thank you I’ve been looking at this as my first RC4WD. I’m hoping to maybe see it on sale it was around the holidays it’s kind of pricey would you say it was worth the $ overall. I’d definitely be replacing the electronics so that’s something to figure in.
love this rig!!
Interesting review I have not been a fan of the metal of RC4WD but they look nice. And good morning/afternoon from Indiana
Yes, nice looking… just lacking a touch in performance
if you use grub screws in the body mount you can just stretch the body over them instead of unscrewing the screws all the time, Rc4wd don't know what loctite is so be prepared for a lot of loose screws.
Truck looks sick bro
Nice video Phil, thanks! 👍 🙏
I'm not sure how much "300oz/in" stands for in kg, but the servo may not be the main culprit for the weak steering. I believe the Hobbywing 1060 can't offer high voltage BEC, so a different ESC may be able to use the servo's full power..:)
Ya know ,, for straight out of the box it didn’t do too bad , I think with a few tweaks it could be decent, not sure if it’s just my eyes but I feel it could do with the chassis extending .
Australia plug
You could import a Hilux from Australia right hand drive here to !!
Great videos always watching 🦘⛱️☀️
That second plug is an Australian power outlet adapter fyi.
Some nice creeping and crawling there m8
Second plug was Australian 😃
Or mainland China, same layout.
Lcg Capra Axel's ☠️🏴☠️ ROCK PIRATES build my favourite and most capable truck 🤩✌🏼
If you want a Hilux get them from New Zealand rather than Japan. They were built here and we have way more. Also that plug is an NZ/ AU one.
Better foams in tires would help.
That transmitter looks like a Team Associated.
Definitely a cool looking truck Phil, but for the money, build quality would be
the issue for me 😏
Yeah… it’s not really what you should be getting out the box
Love the body on that truck.
man i wish i had more money, this looks so cool
Stick Class 1 hyrax on it, and it would certainly do better in Class 1.
Looks stunning, like the dual spring shock (shame about the oil situation)
Ni-cad battery will also not hold up in comp, i am guessing 2s lipo wakes it up a bit.
The Treal wheels look sweet and that extra low down weight will really help with the hard body.
Really does remind me of "Brawn" my RGT ex86010 jk with a hard body swap.
It was running a Lipo in the video. Needs work.. bit looks good
@@TomleyRC i thought you would be running a lipo, sorry i wasn't able to come out and join you !
Nice review, as usual. Please fix the MT10 it look sad hanging there broken 😉
That second plug adaptor was Australian or mainland China.
We had snow here lol fuck its been pissin down here so bad southwest im thinking about a boat or hovercraft nxt purchase 😂😂
Hey there Phil, love the front two thirds but the rear bed leaves me wanting, I really don’t like that rear bed, imho it just looks silly 😜, i know it serves a purpose for competitions, buuuuutttttttt?
Niiiiiiiiiiice old video Anyoldwho.😊
My crew affectionately refer to them as RC3WD😂😂😂
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Look great 🎉
Will that body fit on a trx4 and can u buy just the body that body is dope man
Howdy! What is the motorcycle at the beginning of your video?
thats a crazy cool truck!
Pill looks like you go an old stock truck . Back when that was manufactured it was probably a decent Servo back then but now probably crap
Yeah, it’s a few years old… but it was struggling on them rocks.
Anything rc4wd take out every screw you can and put loctite on them and lenses need to be glued in
Nice rig.Good to have options that are not 600-800
Que tal amigo Phil...excelente crawler muy acertado en los colores verde/gris con unos mejores neumáticos seria más capaz en espera de un próximo video saludos desde México 👍
Hi Phil, cool crawler and cool video! What do you think about the element ecto🤔 cheers to you 🍻
amazing crawler bro
The second plug was an Aussie one Phil, cmon mate .....
I've only got one 1/10 crawler. The others are 1/24. I'm looking for other bigger ones. Will this be the one? Let's find out.
8:40 "we used to call em Indian Underwear". Why? creeping up your behind! lol
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Is this the same rig that was released 3 years ago? Because it needed serious modifications to functhen well as a class 2 rig
Yes it is…. And I agree. Although it doesn’t say anywhere is a capable class 2 lol
Nice👍👍😁😁
Might have been better with the truck bed in the rear not the scx10 look rear end.
Are gas powered RC trucks still a thing? Some times I really miss my old stadium truck. HPI Nitro MT. Never should have sold it...
Ooooo like these videos 🎉 love a toyota 🎉
I think that for 500 thats too steep considering the changes that need to be made servo etc, looks great just not as much bang for the buck as id like, id prob choose another model
You need to make a leroy or mullet for cleetus mcfarland.
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Looks great but in my experience those axels are not very strong. Especially the steering knuckles
The D44s? They’re fine. Sure not like “AR44” axials stuff(crap)… but decent enough to run.
Haha I was going to say that the steering is definitely on the wrong side... :D
Im watching this 6 months later and this was my dream truck but the price is £680 now and that is way to expensive its a shame as its $499 in America
Looks great but it seems like it should cost 329.00ish👍
Buy a WPL for $60 a never worry about the hardbody , and get 5x as much fun for the money.
and then after you thrashed it you can spend hobby class money for upgrades into a metal comp crawler.
and for the price of this thing? you can do it 3 times over and still have enough money left for lunch at a steakhouse
This and a WPL are not really a comparison
liked the music in this one, relaxing. decent truck but weak bec on the esc combined with a crap servo makes this a crappy rtr
I'm looking for something to exercise my dogs, going to be a field so there is a few rocks and could be tall grass. Never owned a RC that's not complete garbage... Any suggestions? Budget maybe £500 but if I don't have to spend that much I'm happier :) Thanks.
1:39 - doxy doxy.
It’s a farkin Aussie plug bruz