So you just bought your first RC car for your doing a little bit of research right now before you buy your first RC car and you want to know what mistakes you should avoid well I think you found the right video I'm Greg with RC Driver .com and we're going to give you our ten common newbie mistakes that you should avoid let's get right into it so mistake number one not buying the right vehicle I know this a scale nitro racing buggy right here looks really cool but it's really not the best place for you
to start I put this aside find something that's more suitable for getting into RC something like a trail truck like this Axial scx10 - or those Traxxas Slash these are both electric they come ready to run and they're really easy to use they come with great instruction manuals and just be true to yourself when you're walking into the store I know something like that big cash truck right there looks really cool but you know there's a lot of responsibility that comes with it and you know if you've never worked on an RC car before you
might find it a little scary once you start getting into things so find the right vehicle for you talk to your hobby store they'll point you in the right direction and start off with something you can manage common newbie mistake number two not reading the manual no I know you're really excited you just got your first RC card you want to head right outside and drive it but take the time to read the manual trust me the manufacturers put a lot of time in these things to make sure everything you need to know is explained
right in here so take the time it'll it'll tell you about you know your electronics charging how to simply turn it on and off although we did a video on that - how to do repairs there's a lot of valuable information and if there's multiple manuals like this one here for the radio system that comes with the truck read them all just be familiar with everything on your RC car and that way when you do go outside it'll be pure fun common newbie music number three I just felt like doing a dramatic intro anyway it's
gluing your tires now I know you're ready to run came with the tires pre-mounted but when you buy your first set of aftermarket tires most likely you're going to have to glue them yourselves so what you need is you need some tire glue and you probably need some cleaner as well what you're going to do is you're going to use this cleaner to clean the bead of the tire and the rim and then use a good quality tire glue such as this from proline to seal that bead up and that way when you go out
and give your car full throttle your tires don't blast off in any direction newbie mistake number four not charging your battery now these are not like the batteries that come in a grocery store these are not charged you need to charge them I've seen so many customers come back to a hobby store and they're in a rage and the mike Carley work for a few seconds or five minutes and then it's stopped well nickel metals they pretty much come dead they need to be fully charged when you first get lipo batteries they come about half
charge so you could get some use out of them but they again need to be charged as soon as you get home so get yourself a good charger and when you go home charge up your batteries make sure that you're fully peaked and then you could go outside and have some fun on to newbie mistake number five over oiling your RC car folks your RC car is not like your real car it does not need a huge quart of oil inside the transmission on your RC car if you do take the transmission apart for maintenance
you just need a light coating or grease on the gears if you do take the differential apart and it needs oil just put the right amount in you don't want to overfill it to where when you start using it oils going to start seeping out of all of the seams and if you go and rebuild your shocks there is a certain amount of oil that goes in them as well what you want to do is take a look at your instruction manuals see what the manufacturer recommends as far as how far to fill it and
you won't have any lockup once you put your suspension back together newbie mistake number six is geared towards our new racers so when you head to the track for the first time you going to put your car down for practice do not I repeat do not put your car down on the front straightaway we've seen so many new racers go they're really excited about running and they go put their car down on the straightaway and then go walk up to the driver stand and in the meantime somebody else is blasting down the street rear-ends the
car and takes both cars out damages both cars this is a common mistake we see time and time again usually tracks have areas where you could set the car down on if you don't see that right away just take your time see where other racers are placing their car and that's where you want to place your car you don't want to cause any damage to anyone's car or your car on your first race day so you went ahead and bought your first nitro RC car well these next two newbie mistakes they're gear towards you the
first one is is not charging your Glo igniter this needs to be charged up before you could go fire up your engine now most load matters come with their own charger so put it on charge for about four hours before you try to start up your engine we've seen so many customers go back to a hobby shop with Popeye arm because they've been wrenching on the pole start for an hour and they're they're furious that their card insert all the hobby shop owner does is take a charge glow igniter goes out and fires it right
up save yourself some time save yourself some strength and go charge this first sowhat's nitro new via mistake number eight well breaking your engine in properly I know when you go and finally get it fired up for the first time it's going to sound really cool and you're going to see the smoke pouring out you just want to go run it but take the time to break the engine improperly and almost every single manufacturer includes braking instructions with a nitro vehicle take the time to read through these instructions and follow exactly what they do make
sure you have the right fuel make sure you're giving it the right amount of throttle make sure your needle valves are set properly this lousy manual right here instructs you to drive in a figure eight in order to keep the stress on the engine low while the engine breaks in so take the time do it right and your engine should last a long time okay we're nearing the end here on to newbie mistake number nine over tightening your hardware now let's say you do need to go ahead and wrench on your RC machine you don't
need a big automotive ratchet like this to tighten down the hardware most hardware on RC cars just needs to go a little past snug now there are a few exceptions like your motor or pinion gear or a nitro engine those need a little bit more force to tighten them down to make sure they're secure but most Hardware on the suspension or on the chassis just needs to be tightened down a little bit past snug if you go too far you risk the chance of stripping out the hole or you may trip out the head on
the on the screw and then it's much harder to remove that Hardware later on oK we've made a newbie mistake number 10 and this one has to deal with not properly setting up your charger to charge your lipo battery I can't stress to you enough how important this step is and we probably should have put it earlier up in the newbie mistake list you need to set your charger properly to charge a lipo battery first make sure you get a good quality charger second step is to make sure that you put all the settings into
the charger so it charges your battery properly if you don't it could have some disastrous effects I've seen a lot of lipo fires in my day and I've actually had one here at my house I can't stress you enough how important it is to make sure you set your lipo battery properly and never leave it unattended while it's charging ah so you thought we were done not just yet I have one more tip I want to share with you and that tip is to support your local hobby shops when you're getting into RC well you're
going to have a lot of questions and the owner of that local hobby shop or its employees well they're going to be able to help you now this is the point in the video where I ask you to subscribe to our YouTube channel and I hope you do so but if you could do me one more favor and just share this video so hopefully you helped one of your friends get an RC with success as well
