Originally Posted by BrettL

The key to buying used is finding a seller with good buyer feedback, asking a lot of questions and knowing what to ask. Or of course, buying local. Look for an ad with pertinent information and good pics. If theyre not well documented, ask tons of questions and ask for lots of pics. Ask for close-up pics of the drive cups and dogbones coming out of the gearboxes. Ask for pics of the pins on the center shafts as well. Ideally, you dont want to see flat spots forming on the pins. Theyre hard steel and it takes a lot of use to wear on them. Some manufacturers use softer steel than others but ive found Tekno shafts to be relatively tough. Ask for chassis bottom pics. Ask when the car was last freshened up with new fluids. Ask when the tie-rod ends were last replaced. Ask how many gallons the buggy has on it. If it's had a gallon, the fluids should have been freshened several times. Tie-rod ends are high ware items too. Look for a buggy that was raced, theyll be better maintained than a basher. A guy that knows his stuff will probably have pics and information like this in his ad. NEVER use paypal friends and family. That's probably obvious but you'd be surprised how many people still get scammed. Sorry if most of this was obvious or an information overload.lol

Tekno is going to release the 2.2(more numbers lol)late summer. That willdrivecdown the cost of used buggys even more. Youll be able to find parts for the 2.0 for 5 or 6 more years at least. The 2.2 is going to be a modified 2.1 so that takes care of that. I have a 2013 Losi truggy that I can still find any part except the ring and pinion. Even those gears pop up occasionally on here or ebay. Losi has always been incredibly popular so parts arent an issue unless you're talking about a 10 year old model. I've found that Losi is an exception. Theres a lot of guys like me that have tons of new parts for the 3.0 and 4.0 Losi stuff. They shared a lot of parts, making it pretty easy to find parts. My point is that if you can find a nice 3.0 or 4.0 Losi, parts wont dry up for several years. All told though, the Tekno 2.0 or 2.1 is the way to go in my opinion. With the 2.2 coming out, there's going to be some nice 2.1 buggys come up for sale at a good price. 2.0 buggys are already in the $150 range.

Originally Posted by RazorRC

Don't get the Losi RTR, half the parts are discontinued and it's SAE. Hobao parts you can get anything you want at hobao-usa.com. Ships out of TX.

Any race buggy will be 2x as more durable as their RTR counterpart, the RTR's all have cheapened metals, etc. Buying used is always questionable as the previous owner may not know WTF they were doing (especially with nitro). If YOU know what you're doing, it could be OK, but it's a lot better for an experienced hobbyist.