I am starting a small RC fix, tune, and cleaning business out of my garage. I wasn't expecting much $$ from it but WOW I have gotten so many responces already from it.
Here's my question to you guys.
How much would you pay for someone to completely strip and clean your car?
Change all diff fluids, shock fluids, clean and reoil (where you can) bearing?
All the local hobby shops here charge $30-$35 an hour. I was thinking of charging $20 an hour just for repairs only.
I thought about having just a set price for complete cleaning though. Any thoughts on pricing?
PLEASE HELP!

indoor clay, medium high bite and large high bite. but I just want to have them to swap out when I feel they'd be useful.

never understood this statement Led...

The statement just means the 2 things are the same.

Yep, i see it now. It was too late to think clearly last evening when i wrote this

This could turn into a headache if you strip something out. And you have to go over the buggy when you get it with the customer. Otherwise you may find yourself dealing with someone that says it wasn't that way when they gave it to you. Just pay close attention to what you take in.

Buggy8, sorry if I confused you, I confuse myself sometimes If you can buy them all try them out, post the results. High bite tracks are tricky.. most of the time it comes down to tire choices from what Ive tried. Ive only ran indoor clay a few times.. its much different from the outdoor mud tracks we normally run. That being said I like to run a "most forgiving" buggy I can. If I set it up too aggressive I just cant hang onto it. The stock sway bars seem to be pretty good for my driving. I did slide the post in a little bit to tighten them up. The buggy does lean alot, but for me Id much rather be leaning than to be spinning out because the bars are too big.

I would take mine in to a hobby shop and see how they handle it.

Buggy 8- I race at WCRCR with my RC8BE and have switched to gold swaybars front and rear. With the setup I run the car carries very good corner speed and changes direction very well. Worth trying out. Worse case scenario, you don't like it. But I like a lot of steering and fast direction changes, or twitchy as some people call it. I don't like my car to sit in corners for very long.

no worries I appreciate the info. the right tires are a huge factor!

This sounds like more of what I'm after. More and more I'm liking sensitivity and response. I run at LRH once in a while and I hear the clay is similar to wc. I've been hearing a lot of good things about west coast, which days/nights are best for practice?
I have a hyper and a jammin that are dialed in and I love running them! I know I can dial this buggy in and get it where I want it, thanks a lot for the info.

I'm also going to look into cf chassis as part of a weight loss plan.

West coast has actually been really busy on practice days, which is good. There isn't really a good or bad day to practice, everyday at the track is a good day. They run a controlled practice format that is actually really cool, despite what some say. And they race four nights a week. Just check out there sight for hours. I try to race on Sundays, schedule permitting. But try things. People spend too much time asking opinions about things rather than trying setup changes. Believe it or not, there are set up changes that some don't feel or feel they are different than what someone else says. Best advice I ever got was to keep things close to even, i.e. don't make the front ridiculously soft and stiffen the rear a great amount.

I run the steve hartson setup on our indoor clay track and it's super dialed, lol. My question is, why isn't there more setups On the AE site?

Good question. Only Associated could answer that. The Hartson setup is good. It's where I started and made a couple changes to suit my style.

tires are everything
does he run a sway bar in the front???

Yeah. Silver.

On our indoor track I've taken the front off and gone to the thickest rear (2.8)...

It was the only way I could get the car to rotate like I wanted.