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Why not do wrenching right out the box??? Because it will be too hard? If so then the hobby is not for you.If this is your first R/C I don't recommend doing extensive disassembly unless you're very mechanically inclined. I used to know a hobby shop owner who commented on the number of customers bringing in new RTR cars for repairs after they're rendered less RTR by a novice attempting to do a bunch of preemptive maintenance they read about 'on the internet'. The other basic stuff people have mentioned here like checking screws for tightness, checking the gear mesh and setting steering end points is worth doing and hard to mess up.
You will absolutely be doing it anyway at some point. Why pay a LHS to do everything? And I find they never teach you anything. It does not benefit their business model.
You have to learn anyway. Why not out the box. Children/very unskilled labor assembles these. Why be afraid to wrench on them yourself. ? Why be in a hurry to drive it like a kid at Christmas who rips open the box and can't be patient enough to read the instructions. Wanting that instant gratification. That is how things needlessly break. Many of the AF Newb issue type threads here are proof of this.
7 Arrma 6s rigs later and every single one of them were horribly built. Some completely undriveable out the box.
Just consistent atrocious QC. A pattern of this.
And I prefer unassembled kits anyway for just this reason.
Many here have never had anything but RTR rigs. Never built one from parts out of a box. That's how I learned. Forcing me to learn to wrench a whole kit in this way.
>>>How do you become mechanically inclined (if you are not) without doing the wrenching yourself??
Nothing is extensive with these Hobby grade rigs. Just dive in. You won't learn by just driving.
But I guess driving right away until something gets bricked is the norm these days.
Breakage and maintenance seems to be an after thought.
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