Relubing bearings? what, you people do that? lol I haven't done it in a very long time (years) and haven't had an issue. Jim I am yet to experience that with the Ver 2, I hope it doesn't happen! I haven't done any checking to see how much side to side slop the gears have in the Ver 2 box yet. And really, I doubt I will, I just love dumping the mini on the track and it driving well

With bearings, I have always run the cheapest crappiest bearings, always bought two sets so I have a full set of spares, and when I was racing TCS etc, I used a harmonic cleaner with some solution to remove the grease from the bearing and used a drop of Elf high speed bearing oil. Then replaced as necessary.

I remember the days of having a long line of bearings on your table after every race, making sure you had the smoothest drivetrain. It was the only way to extract more speed from a M03, F201 or TT01 at the TCS (well after magnet zapping and dyno about 40 motors too....) Oh how times have changed. Couldn't care less now lol. The motor tuners, comm lathes, comm drops.... battery equalizers.... battery zappers..... Now its a single BL motor, batteries that I got second hand 2 years ago, and relaxing and talking to friends in between rounds! The Lipo technology is amazing!

I LOVE RC these days!