Review on ARRMA RC Truck 1/8 KRATON 6S V5 4WD BLX Speed Monster Truck With Spektrum Firma RTR, Red, ARA8608V5T1 by Josh Graham

If you are reading reviews, you are probably looking to either compare this truck to another truck you are trying to decide between. This is not a review for you. If you have decided on the Kraton, here's what you should know:This thing is FAST! you can take a turn at full speed, and it is AGILE and will make the turn instead of tipping over and rolling. It comes with the optional high-speed pinion, but honestly, why use that if you can't keep it on while off roading? The difference in speed is about 10mph, and with the off-road pinion, you still go about 50mph and can bash, jump, crawl, do everything else too.Radio --> calibrate it! Out of the box, my left-turn limit on the servo was not the full left-turn travel of my wheels, and the right-turn was MORE than the travel, which was straining the servo. Calibration is easy, so do it. The throttle and brake were set to full (that's standard), but this thing has so much power that I set the reverse travel to a lot less so that when I back up the truck doesn't reverse 10 feet in half a second.Spare parts! If you are not jumping very high (not high = 5 feet or so imo), so long as you are landing on all four wheels, you will probably be able to jump for a year before parts break. But you didn't get this truck to hold back. The truck has the high-end parts that are most expensive to replace made of metal. My suggestion is to NOT replace the parts made of plastic - you want something to absorb the shock of a bad landing or very hard landing by flexing, and honestly by breaking before the expensive parts break. If you replace it all with metal, then you lose the flex and the expensive things will break more than they would otherwise. The parts that will break the most from bashing - shock arms (rear more than front in my experience). I bought several sets, and mud guards for the rears (mud guards keep rocks out of the moving/spinning parts in the rear).Last, buy the RPM or Arrma extre bash skid plates and front bumper. This thing doesn't have a front bumper, which is a huge risk because if you go full speed into something or land on the nose accidentally, the bumper flexes and takes the hit. Without it, your servo, steering arms, and the momentum of the entire car has nowhere to go but the solid front of the car - you'll break really expensive things if you crash without a front bumper.Have fun!