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I had an issue with a wraith radio, Picked up the phone and called customer service problem solved! I recived the unit in 5 days, good ship time from cali to indiana. As far as gp now owning them, I didn't here that but I did notice horizen was no longer carring the product. Thats a shame. horizen hobbies has the best costomer support in the business.

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Buy out or not customer service shouldn't be affected period! Companies change ownership all the time without customer service being horrible! My first crawler was a redcat rs10 i fried the esc after two months and there customer service had me a new one in 4 days there customer service was alot faster and there the so called "Black Sheep" of the rc crawling world!

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Dec 5 I posted on here about my defective radio-the morning after I purchased my wraith. Mailed my radio back to Axial after calling them, have yet to get a response to follow up mail and voicemail.

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Just spoke with "Scott Kerkes". They are sending a new speed control out today!

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Scott is great, I put a new set of universals in my Wraith and ran it for the 1st time today and after about 5min or so 1 uni broke just running in short grass in my backyard, He told me to send a pic to his email and he would send a new one out, Will see but if so that's GREAT CS

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That is a complete load of BS. I know for a fact that you can turn on the lipo cutoff WITHOUT the Catle Link on the Sidewinder using the blinky LED menu system using the radio's throttle/brake to change selections. I did this with my Sidewinder in another vehicle before I had a Castle Link.

Start reading at page 20 of the Sidewinder manual here. It gives instructions on how to do that.

Give it a try and see if it works. I would be surprised if it didn't.

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I have not had problem one with them, they have a phone number for a reason dude... Just saying. I would have called them before I complained this long or just ordered a lesser product. If you are ordering from a retailer then that explains your price hike. I am not trying to be a dick, I have had a long wait for an email response. I just email the guy that responed to me and that solved the problem.

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Axial Customer Service Rocks!!! On Jan. 11th I inquired via email about the availability of the Wraith universals. Literally 3 minutes later Scott responded saying that a bunch (a couple hundred) had been shipped to distributors. Since I had mine on back order for three plus weeks I was hopeful that I'd get a set. Unfortunately it didn't work out. Fast forward three weeks to yesterday, I emailed Scott again inquiring about the universal availability. In that email I mentioned the name of my local hobby shop that I placed the order with back in December. Later in the day he responded with "call me." I talked to Scott this morning and was blown away when he told me that a set was shipped directly to my hobby shop with my name on them. Wow!!! Now that's customer service!!!

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update from above post. got a new radio back last thursday, opened the package and they did not send me a receiver back which which i included in my original parcel. they did include a half sheet of axial stickers. they were closed friday and i called today, they will ship me a receiver.
so for the approx $20 cdn shipping I had to pay, on top of the price of the new truck, after two months i still own a vehicle that was not driveable from day one.
yes i have another radio that i have been using, but what if i was new to the hobby...pretty disappointing.

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I hear you, I have been seeing this on all the forums. They are in need of some PR over there, with the TF2 around the corner we can see who is listening.

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I'm still waiting too. Scott said he sent me a new Wraith universal to replace my broke one after 5min of easy running. That was on 1/23 and still not here.

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I recieved a new kit last week. It has missing parts fro the shock tree and no left hand frame.
Axial didnt want to know about it, worst attitude i have expierenced in this hobby. Lucky for me Tower are taking care of it.
This taught me a lesson and i cancelled my AXO and Dingo order

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I've had issues with customer service from other companies in the past, and ultimately, this was taken care of, so I can get past it. But the price increases at Axial lately are keeping any of my future Axial purchases on hold.

I ended up spending the money I saved for another Wraith and SCX10 purchase on a new RTR Plane and Simulator (Never flew prior to this). I have been looking for an excuse to get into planes anyway, so I guess I can send a thank you to Axial for the price increase! It's the best thing I have done RC-wise in a long time.

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We talk about the customer service being good. How nice. What about a quality product? I broke another bloody part last weekend. Ordered upgrades. Trying to install them I broke another part just trying to take it apart. Now I need a new rear drive shaft and can hopefully salvage the bevel gear shaft because I cant get the pin out for the driveshaft. I have never had to upgrade an r/c like I have this axial Wraith. Everytime I have run it, something has broke. I hate this thing. But I have spent so much money on trying to keep in running, it would be a shame to shash the crap out of it with a hammer.

Worst purchase I have ever made. Sad thing is, I convinced a friend to buy one before this started happening.

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RC4WD is the way to Go...I never liked axial's stuff or their CS (and I have owned a few)...and personally I always thought their stuff was overpriced for the quality. TF2 in my future...done with axial:flipoff:

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After seeing build pics of the tf2, for the first time I'm inclined to side with you. As for Axial, I usually buy the pieces used and build up, so any probs I've had have either been dealt with already or I fix as I build sorta thing.

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Email or call again, they are awesome.

LIK

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Got my Wraith universal yesterday. I love my Axial crawlers, I love working on them, and upgrading them so most of the problems are just a excuse for me to buy more parts"thumbsup"

Axial stuff reminds me a lot of my jeep. I love jeeps, but stock they suck and break. Now that all is left of the jeep is the body and part of the frame, it's great. Still, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Thank goodness there are companies out there like VP, so we can build this stuff up so it won't break every-time it's driven.

For this reason, I am going another route for a go-fast rig. The EXO is out for me.




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Be careful dogging the driveshafts on this forum! People seem to have a hard on to say all you need to do is lock-tite the screws, ans use 2 screws! I am so sick of hearing this Jerry-rigging argument! It is a BS design, and this is one of the odd area's of RC where the Jerry rigging method is widely accepted!. Switch to Maxx Shafts and all your issues will be behind you!