I drive a D8 and love it but i do maintance my stuff before i have any issues and for the D8t Tye Tessman just won the Nitro Challange with it and i know alot of people who swicthed to the D8t from losis, mugens so i am sure there good. the only issues i seen with them was the pin coming out but if you read the D8T thread u will find all the info u need.