This thread gives me hope! I built my ebuggy this winter for our outdoor season. I'm worried that Tekin isn't going to replace my ESC because of the warranty time frame being from purchase but it's first use was May 28th when our outdoor season kicked off. I've had 2 race days on it and it smoked up :/ Luckily my car is fine, but I've never had any issues with all my rs's or rx8 gen1... No idea why it did this :/