I also owned a LRP brushless 3-star set up and I got it used the esc went bad and LRP replaced it for the previous owner and when I got it, it worked fine, the speedo did get very warm but it didn't die on me, I guess I was lucky with it and I end up trading the LRP brushless set up for something else. Thank God I never had too go through any nonsense with LRP's customer service.