Does the New Arrma Grom have what it takes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2023
- This is the New Arrma Granite Grom. A 1/18 Scale Mini RC Basher. Will it live up to the Arrma Tough name? I tested it to the absolute limit.
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And people say I purposely try and break my cars😳🤣
Lol
Everyone trying to be like Kevin Talbot
@@dieseldabz7104talbot got his start just being abusive same as whistlindiesel. For attention. This fella don’t make it his identity. Hardly any vids by tomley like that. Oh well. I just wish thought of it first.
11.5t brushed motor & 29-turn pinion on my Tamiya "The Lunchbox"! She's only good for straight lines on pavement.........
I never seen a reason for using rc vehicles in a skatepark at all lol!!!
You're easily the hardest working RC channel this Christmas, thanks for the awesome content
Thanks mate. It’s been a busy few weeks that’s for sure!
I’d say not just for Xmas but most of the year to b fair. 100% one of my fav/top channels that I enjoy watching the most
Super excited for the Mini Typhon Grom 👀
Arrma requested the measurements of the WLtoys 144001 about 2yrs ago 🤞🏻
Maybe they should ask RLAARLO for their red 1/14 buggy measurements lol @@TomleyRC
Fantastic bashing and review, Phil! 😃
What the heck of a little truck! Really tough!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
And happy holidays!
Cheers mate 😎🤘
I wish a million potential RC enthusiasts get these for Christmas .
I LOVE Arrma, more than I can say....but....MJX has this corner of the market on lock and for good reason 😉
Good videos buddy. I like to watch these. Merry Christmass Tomley RC
this has been a fun series! i have watched each one almost daily!
Amazed your Grom lasted that long and took that abuse! That H style drive cup shaft on the diff’s is the number 1 weak point on these trucks. Mine exploded on 2nd pack taking way less abuse than you showed here. Horizon did warranty it for me and even sent me 2x spares. Hopefully a HD diff comes out soon cause as long as those plastic cups thread into plastic spider gears this problem will remain.
Great video.. definitely one of the better grom reviews.
This is an excellent review and test. I bought one on a Black Friday sale at my local Hobbytown. I am glad to see Arrma trying to compete in this market. Also, the Gorgon is another attempt to get into a more reasonable price range. You gave it a real bash test and it might've shown a weakness that Arrma can correct.
I'm watching this while getting ready to go out with my GROM and a mini ramp. Love the grom, and it hasn't broken yet, and I city bash.
@Tomley RC you're smashing out this daily Christmas content 👏
Cheers mate
@TomleyRC i need new brushless setup to make my jumpshot a flux model
We have officially been properly introduced to Tomley's inner Talbot! Or his TiT for short 😂
Tit for tat😅
Got mine earlier this week also. I like it. Got a few issues but on the whole, I think this is a good platform.
I love my Grom. Yea at first I thought the buddy mount system was kinda goofy too. But once you get used to it, it’s actually not bad at all and very easy to remove and remount. The steering is a bit squirrelly too I agree 😂 The only problem I’ve had is one of the plastic teeth on one of the rear driveshaft cups ( I think that’s what my local hobbytown said happened) stripped out. Looks like that’s what happened to yours too, Phil. Most likely from me doing doughnuts in the basement concrete floor 😬😂 So that’s my fault. But my hobbytown even warrantied it and fixed it. Those guys are awesome. Other than that, this thing is a perfect basement basher for me. My body is all scraped and scuffed up. But that gives it character 🤘🏼😂 Great video!
definitely one of the better rc channels rather than some of the other ones that promise content and never deliver, just random skate park crap
Good test. Just what I needed to see I have the grom under the tree. I did brake the hyper go in cold temps not being hard on it. Love the calender
It’s very tough 👍
Excellent video as always.
I would 3d print that cup, personally.
Hey Phil, been loving these Christmas calendar videos. Because of your videos, I do end up getting some of these cheap small scale cars and they are generally great cars. Some sometimes will end up having leaky shocks but all cars can and do. At the beginning of the video, you asked if this more expensive car holds up to the mjx i think it was? Here is my findings here is Arizona. To be frank, I guess you could call me a fanboy of Arrma and traxxas because my rustler 4x4, summit, and Infraction are my favorite cars I have but thats not what Im comparing. I also own the mini ERevo and the Grom and a few of the cheap minis you have featured. After giving them all a good bashing, a lot of these cheap cars perform really well and in the case of Rlarrlo, maybe better until something breaks. Its not easy to get parts for some of these cars and It took over a month to get an axle for the Rlarrlo desert buggy where when I break something on my ERevo, Im just a hop, skip and a jump away from my hobby shop. I always find myself unconsciously being more timid and careful with cheap cars but I run the ERevo and the Grom like Kevin Tolbot. To be fair, I run them harder then the Rustler 4x4 because they are so cheap to fix.😅 This rant was by no means disagreeing with you or throwing you any hate. Just my thoughts and findings to the question of what holds up to what and maybe its unfair because the VXL ERevo is $300 but still mini.
Cool Review! I just got mines and haven’t been able to whip it out.
I never tire of the Allen guy, laughs every time
That’s a tough truck! Great video Phil..
Cheers dude
The advent calendar was a great idea . You've been working really hard . Many of us appreciate that .👏🏻
Great lil truck from Arrma . While a long time fan of micros and 1/18 scale . I think the new resurgence and proliferation of this size is partly because the larger scales have become more expensive . These are more affordable to mod as well and you don't need a huge place to run them . 👍🏼🎅🏻🎄
What a little beast!
I hated the steering trim on my MJX hypergo 14 for the same reason. Plus I'd bump it. Now its running either my Dumbo or a Flysky gt2b just so I can get straight drives.
Also, you are so lucky to have skateparks with nobody on them.
It's a fun truck and indeed if you immediately floor it it won't go straight for some reason. But if you accelerate a bit more gradually it's surprisingly stable. It's pretty well balanced for jumping and I guess they build in weak points on purpose with RTR cars for upgradability. Very curious how the upgrade diffs hold up. Mine will get a brushless conversion soon so diffs will probably have to get upgraded pretty soon. 🙈
Yeah, I think the short wheelbase doesn’t help either to keep it going straight. Especially when it’s a bit slippery
Great job on the Christmas countdown…appreciate there’s a lot of work gone into this
Cool review 👌🏻
how d''you squash a GROM , stamp on it with your foot 🤣🤣🤣
RC cars are Not for cold weather!😅 Snap,Crackle, and Pop!🧨🤣😂😆
It took a beating, pretty dang cool 👍🏻
Day 16!!! Yay! I really dig these Christmas videos… great idea.
Wow, what a tough little truck. And the green pops. But for the money I don't think you can beat the MJX trucks. They are beasts with 3s in them.
Going strong ‼️👍👍🦾🦾🤘🤘
I still miss my mini E Revo was such a fun little car just really hard to find parts for where I live I really regret it though since they've stopped making them I just had a very bad problem stripping differentials I would run through front and rear differentials very quickly
I had the same steering trim issue with my Grom so i was going to change out the receiver and connect it to my spektrum Dx5C transmitter and then realized that it is a 2 in 1 esc. So... now its brushless with a gyro and it drives straight and goes 52 mph.😆
Cheers Phil
I'm waiting for them to release the upgrades and them to be in stock before I maybe pick one up I'm a sucker for the 3s range as well
Took mine to the skate park, didn’t even get through a whole battery cycle before my rear differential went. Luckily my local hobby shop had a pair of all-metal upgraded ones. Bless them 🙏
Day 16 hits on a Saturday morning so I get to sleep in a bit. Nice got an Allen in😂 Love the hat fits right in I had an idea can we get the finger pointer you use to poke open a calendar day just the finger only poking through like on the videos 😂
the GROM feels like a grommet that just hit my groin area 🤣🤣🤣
I got an absolute chuckle out of the Grom attacks 😂. Arrma tough baby. Awesome
Haha
I have watched every single one of these rc advent calander videos religiously and I love the idea!! So new and unique, so tell you wife this was a great idea!!!❤❤❤
The easy to get parts is a myth, it's over a year since I can't find a 4x4 kit for my Granite Boost...
I think this is very cool and only £20 more than a tracer. Gotta b worth it surely. I like it. Can easily upgrade it to brushless later on. I’m sure a lot of kids would b happy with this at Xmas.
I like my Teton with the $30 Amazon special brushless setup in it. Slap some RPM A-arms on there and you're good.
Man that's a tough little truck
This thing needs an upgrade video!
Hola Amigo como estas , hoy fue un dia de prueba de resistencia de este pequeño mostrico verde es indestructible , 16 dias del calendario , saludos y mucjas gracias Mr feliz dia
Great little truck, but as you said, tough market for Arrma to drop into! My son has the HBX16889, and he's beaten the absolute snot out of it over the last 3 years, and all that's broken is the shell! It'll be interesting to see if the ever get to a V2?!
Yeah, some crazy mini stuff out there
Put mine to the test at the skate park last Tuesday it took a beating 👍
Just bought two of the for my kid and I . thanks for the video
How does it stack up compared to the FMS Colorado? Apart from the obvious that the FMS is smaller. But they're roughly the same price.
nice little truck indeed only issue i have so far is the pins of that clipless body bending and breaking .. havent seen/heard much about that so maybe i just had bad luck or im doing something wrong
Do you need the CAD data to 3D print your own spares? It‘s always the same part that breaks and I made a CAD clone an print it myselve.
Vorteks and Granite are DISCONTINUED😢!do you know their replacement?any thoughts?
Damn good price really. And a built in weak link saves everything else from breaking. Acceptable.
Good price? It's nearly double the price as the MJX.
@@janklaassen6404at least if you buy this you are still supporting your local hobby shop
@@janklaassen6404 I don't know MJX, which one?
@@wordreet The one he's comparing with at 2:30.
@@janklaassen6404 Oh haha! I wasn't paying enough attention and thought 66 was the price of the MJX! 🙄 DOH!
phill finishing the video with 2 black eyes and a broken leg 😂😂 the attack of the grom 😂 ...but i am with you Phill the price puts me offf but keep watching videos i will get one and make it brushless 😂
Haha.. yeah, a few close calls!
tuffffff little bugger, nice review. I'm hoping the ftx outback mini Texan x evo is behind one of the remaining door's, I'd love to see it in action before buying. I've got the original and have done a fair few upgrades and is still running well.
There’s certainly an ‘Evo’ behind one of the doors 😇
I'm pretty sure this is the number 1 selling RC car right now over the Christmas holiday.
For filming yes the green may look better, but that blue 😉😜
skatepark and -3c don't mix 😂 took a beating considering 👍
I got 22 with mine 😊
I love the grom.. remember it's Brushed phil.. let that motor fully break in it will hit 22 😊 .. nice video
What runtime do you get out of the lipos that come with them?
A few of the TH-cam folk are talking about spares availablity of the Chinese stuff Vs Arrma but in my experience my MJX rarely broken for long. Mine has an FTX body and body posts from my local shop. The arms look like Tracer too. On the shelf at the model shop. The front uprights are special MJX because of the big, metal CVDs so they took two weeks to get here, but only because I wanted cheap because mine weren't fully dead yet. There's an English site for MJX bits, everything is a quid or two dearer obviously but it's in your hand in two days. Be it a diff or whatever.
I can imagine the Arrma will be better for upgrades in the not too distant future. Especially where that diff' is concerned. Plus spares availablity can only get better can't it. Proper cool little truck that 🙂
1:58 I love you! LOL
I bought this as soon as it was released. Great little truck. My only complaint is the body release mechanism. They could have done it a little better since it's so weird in regards to how easy Traxxas makes their body mount release system.
Yeah, I found it a bit fiddly
Sshhhh! 🤫 u can’t mention Traxxas around Phil he’ll get all crossed eyed and sweaty 😂
@@TidyRC my bad I forgot 😆
LETS GOOO❤
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Did you look to see if appliance electronics had it in stock?
Rear diff is the Achilles heal on these
love my Grom, I brought it to the beach and put the HyperGo sand paddles on it, absolute ripper! kills the skatepark too! Getting my 6yr old nephew one of these bad boys
Rich duperbash needs to get his hand on it it'll probably have a hobbywing combo in it 😂
Idk Phil, for 1/2 the price, you could buy a lot of parts for that MJX. I would probably go for that, if I’m buying for my kids.
I like it because it looks fun it’s a ARMMA & it’s tuff.
Im gald you said something about the fingers getting burnt. I said something in my video about it but you get more views lol!
I know this video was months ago, but they released metal diffs for this model, however even those are back ordered right now. .
RE: the trim issue. I've got the same problem with my MJX and my Hosim. Do you think it's an underpowered servo? Or the funky servo saver? (Or a little of both??)
Hi! Could you answer me a question? Is this Arrma Grom a better option than the FMT24 or worse? Which one do u like the most? Thanks!!!!
Wow, you kicked the crap out of that, it did well!
I have a Traxxas 18th scale latraxx Tenton... how does this compare? The Tenton is my favorite little travel all RC I bring it everywhere.
Tetons a bit dated now
sorry i can't help the comments below , i just can't hold back on my 💩 sarcastic humour 🤣 🤣 🤣
I’ve tortured my grom so much, and I mean SO MUCH! Worst that’s happened was the shock cap popping out, and that was after a huge jump. Body is pretty damaged, but it’s brushless now. I wish you luck with your grom!
Yeah, it’s pretty tough!
On the 16th day of Christmas Santa playing a trick on my ....with this tiny Arrma rc .. still better than a traxxas
The UK looks appealing right now!
This is a video I have been waiting to see since I saw them advertised on modelsport phil,looks like its bigger brother/sister just been shrunk being arrma I am imaginingit will be tougher than the one in my question for you. Could you answer my question though please. Either the grom or brushless ftx tracer monster truck it's for blasting around with my little lad who has the maverick ion mt
Yeah Arrma not the best for parts support. Hobby shop told me that center diffs for the 4s Mojave are on backorder till July.
That thing took that on a freezing day!? Damn
That looked like a tough one to me.
I was never happy with the handling of my Gen 2 (I think?) Granite. Tough as nails, but I could never get any speed out of it because it handled so poorly. Still loads of fun, and I kind of want to get one of these mini Granites.
Much like the cheaper Chinese crap like MIX the fit and finish isn't great and too much front end play making it dart everywhere. Easily fixable
arrma grom not turning right far enough. any suggestions ? it turns left very tight turn. turning right it makes a much wider turn. what is the problem ?
What dumbrc remote do you recommend? Thanks
Great video as always. Seems like a good truck but I feel that you get a better bang for your buck with thr Chinese offerings in this segment. I don't go bashing every day so I don't mind waiting a little for parts. Also I am a cheapskate or rather I think that the big brands are way way too expensive.
I think Exocaged RC fitted his with vitavon parts. I guess vitavon has their fingers in everything.
I like Mini Bashers - got 4 MJX. They are not perfect - BUT - they are not expensive, brushless and spare parts are available!
The Grom is to expensive for what it got.
Nice Vid!
Can you get left handed controllers (generic for any RC car?). I think when I but my first one in Jan, the controller is the wrong way around for me. Thanks
Noble nb4
Thanks
Arrma tough babe
The hbx 1/16 IS the king of the 1/18 or 1/16 scale, first of all for the price, the best product-price ratio, durability and availability of spare parts. It is even compatible with the Redcat Volcano 16, which is a car that shares the same base. I think it is above the new Arrma Granite Grom and others like the Latraxx Teton, which you pay much more for, this one is cheaper and even in the brushless version, it is also above the other Chinese competition like the Hyper Go, etc. , you could compare this car with the ones I mention on the channel
Put your hyper go metal parts on the grom...more of them fit than you would thonk. Im doing it now lol
why did the meerkat talk to the key , because it was called , ALAN , ALAN , ALAN 🤣🤣🤣
That thing is just as bouncy on the wheels as it is the roof🤣
Yes, shocks sucks 😔