How RC Crash Crew works

Yes — 100% free, forever. No subscriptions, no premium tier, no ads selling your data. Building your rigs, logging crashes, finding places to run and asking the RC AI all cost nothing.

A lot — all free. Build searchable rigs in the Rig Builder (pick a factory model and specs prefill); give every LiPo a Battery Passport and every motor/ESC/servo a Component Passport; save and clone tuning Setup Sheets; log runs, crashes, repairs and builds; look up real parts and part numbers in the Parts Catalog; find tracks and bash spots on the live map; see who is running right now; discover hobby shops; buy and sell in the Marketplace; join crews and events; read and write guides; and ask the members-only RC Crew AI about your specific rig.

No — that is the whole point. Log one run and it updates everything for you: each battery you used gains a charge cycle, every component installed on that rig clocks its runtime, the rig's total hours tick up, and any maintenance countdowns move. One action, everything stays current. No spreadsheets, no double entry.

Every rig keeps a living dossier — what it started as plus every part, setup, battery, crash, repair and run. When you ask the AI a question it reads that real history, so instead of generic internet advice it can say things like "you already upgraded to a steel spur after stripping the stock one." It answers from YOUR truck, not a forum thread.

Yes — RC Crash Crew is a progressive web app. On Android/Chrome tap the "Install" hint (or the menu → Install app); on iPhone use Share → Add to Home Screen. It opens full-screen like a real app, loads fast, and the pages you've visited still open when you're offline at the track.

You can browse rigs, guides, the places map, the parts and model catalogs and hobby shops without an account. Join free to build your own rigs, give your gear passports, log runs and crashes, sell in the marketplace, and unlock the members-only RC Crew AI.

All of it — cars, trucks, crawlers, drift, monster, short course, boats, planes, drones and FPV, plus mini and micro. If you run it, break it and fix it, it belongs here.

Yes. Anyone can add a hobby shop to the community map for free, and shop owners can claim their listing to get a verified badge, post coupons, and manage their page. It can even become the shop's full website at no cost.

A free, members-only AI assistant that knows RC. It can read your saved rig and explain what works, what won't and why — from gearing and LiPo safety to tuning and troubleshooting.

Some of it. Alongside articles written by trusted crew members, RC Crew AI researches real RC parts and topics and publishes its own wiki articles every couple of days. Every AI-written article is clearly tagged 🤖 so you always know what you're reading, and any trusted member can edit or improve one — same as any other article.

Yes — hit "Message" on anyone's profile to start a private one-to-one conversation. The envelope icon in the top nav shows unread messages, and you can report a message straight to the moderators from inside the thread.

A trusted member proposes a bulk-buy deal — an item, a unit price, and a target quantity. Other members commit how many they want, and the deal auto-marks "funded" the instant committed quantity hits the target. It's non-custodial: RC Crash Crew only tracks who's committed to what — payment and shipping happen off-platform between the organizer and everyone who committed, same as the Marketplace.

The mod team runs a themed contest with three windows: entries open, then close as voting opens, then voting closes and the winner is decided by vote count. Your entry photo comes straight from your own photo library — no separate upload. You can't vote for your own entry, and one vote per member, changeable until voting closes.

Only if you turn it on. The weekly digest is off by default — flip it on in Settings and, once a week, if there's actually something new (your notifications, fresh crew activity), you'll get a short email. Nothing new means no email that week. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Head to Feedback (members-only) — submit a bug, feature idea, or general thought, vote on what other members have submitted, and follow the discussion. The team sets a real status (open/planned/in progress/done) and can reply right on the item.

Yes — on Identify My RC, upload a photo and the AI describes what it sees, then matches it against our real model database. If there's no visible brand or model text, it honestly says so instead of guessing — same rule as everywhere else on the site: real matches only, never invented ones.

On your rig's edit page, the AI Rig Inspector lets you upload a few photos — chassis, electronics, whatever shows the details — and it tries to identify the chassis/body, spot likely upgrades (motor, ESC, wheels), and draft a condition report. It never saves anything on its own: you review what it found and click to copy in whatever's right, same as everywhere else the AI touches your data.

Yes. English is always the default, and you can switch to Español, Français, Deutsch or Português from the footer or the language menu — it translates the menus, buttons and homepage and keeps you on the same page. Member-written content (Wiki articles, forum posts, marketplace listings) stays in whatever language it was posted in and is never auto-translated, so nothing technical or safety-related gets garbled by a machine translation.

Yes. Any claimed, verified shop gets a full storefront — a page builder with their own colors and logo, a product catalog, cart and checkout — free. Payment runs through the shop's own Stripe, PayPal, or manual/in-person setup, so every dollar goes straight to them; we never touch the money or take a cut. Their own admin panel handles products, orders, employees, shipping rules, a contacts list, a newsletter and a blog.

Yes — Crews are free, public or private groups by region with a real members list and a group wall for updates, meetup plans and photos. Anyone can start one; public crews are discoverable and searchable, private crews just stay off the public directory (hand the link to whoever you want to invite) — either way, one click joins.