Originally Posted by fast-ho-cars
years ago when fronts were $18+ and rears were $20+ (standard foam yellow,green,& blue compounds) one could save alot of money by saving rims and buying donuts. donuts were cheap compared to the overall price of pretrued/mounted tires. due to more competition prices have come down, but not on just donuts
when you look at stormerhobbies site and see JACO purple, grey, white donuts for 9.99 and pinks for 11.99. then do to kthobbies, they sell JACO mounted/trued tires in the same compounds front or rear...for 12.99! why bother.
Why Bother? Well RC Champ in Tokyo sells them for less than $7usd a pair( in packs of 3 pairs ). A friend bought a pack of 3 pairs from them in person earlier in the year and they seem to be working very well at our local track. They're a Xenon P/N, ( though on the Xenon site it says they are actually Jaco pinks ) but when I emailed about getting more they said they only had one pack in stock and infered they might not get anymore
. IF they had some in stock, at that price they are cost effective considering 1/12 wheels and tires are rare as hens teeth in Australia, so you have to mail order anyway. I already emailed KThobbies, they wanted way more than stormer for postage, a bit of a rippoff actually. I'll see what CRC can do. Seems like a waste ending up with a bunch of left over rims. But Thanks everyone for you're input.
