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🔧 Troubleshooting
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Why your RC car pulls to one side
Symptom: The car drives roughly straight but constantly drifts left or right,…
A drift to the left or right is almost always trim, binding, or a tweaked chassis — here is how to find which.
🧰 Maintenance
🔧 fix
Cleaning your RC after a wet or muddy run
Symptom: The car ran in water, snow or mud and now feels gritty, or you want t…
Dry it out and protect the electronics and bearings after running in mud, snow or water.
📖 Glossary & Terms
LiPo cell count and voltage (2S, 3S, 4S, 6S)
What 2S / 3S / 4S / 6S mean, and the nominal, full-charge and storage voltage for each.
⚙️ Drivetrain & Gearing
🔧 fix
Setting gear mesh with the paper trick
Symptom: Gear whine, a chewed-up spur gear, or grinding from the gearbox
Set pinion-to-spur backlash with a strip of paper so the gears run quiet and last.
🔋 Batteries & LiPo
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LiPo battery storage: the 3.8V rule
Symptom: A LiPo pack is puffing, or losing capacity over weeks of sitting
Store LiPo packs at about 3.8V per cell — not full, not empty — in a cool, dry, fireproof place.
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