Wltoys 12429 Review. Cheap
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2020
- Hello and welcome to the channel!
A very exciting day today i've been looking forward to this, we are reviewing a brand new and unopened Wltoys 12429 crawler / buggy! I've been looking forward to getting my hands on one of these for a while. But will it turn out to be a bargain basher of a terrible truggy. We are about to find out!!
Link to item on Banggood:
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I had bought one off of Amazon for $170.00 here in the states and its a month and a half delivery time that is until I saw your video and discovered that you paid half of that so I promptly cancelled my order thanks Mate.
The video is a couple of years old now, and prices have gone through the roof! You could pick up a 144001 here in the UK for £49.99 at one point, now you would struggle to find one for less than £95. Everything has gone up spares, brushless kits, everything! 😩
Great review & sharing my friend! Good explaination. Liked & subbed! I also hv this wltoys 12429 & really enjoy it run😁👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks very much. Yeah need to take mine out again soon it's languishing in a corner, and overdue for a run out! 👍
Great informative video , Love my WPL stuff , I mean its not one of the bIg boys , BUT THEY are fun in just the same way ... thanks for sharing.
Cheers 🥂 Great job 🖖
My pleasure. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. 👍
From experience, if you want to add oil to Wltoys Shocks, you have to replace the 'O' Rings in them, they leak otherwise.
9mm x 1 - 1.5mm for the top, and a 4mm x 1 - 1.5mm for the bottom.
Then they hold the oil 😊
I actually converted the shocks in a later video. Using some little o rings. Worked really well! 👍👍
Ah, well there you go 👍🏻
Sweet video
Thank you very much! 👍😆
Looks nice and comes with metal shaft I think is got potential after some mods
Yes I would have to agree. It's quite capable now but with some tweaking it could be even better! 👍
yup the 540 motor known to shred rear drive shafts and diff gears too if plastic, the newer are metal rear shaft and both diffs metal geared too.
Hiya mate, I've got the same model as this and it's awesome too.
Battery is a bit of a pain to take in & out all the time, but besides that it's cool. 👍 👍 👍 👍 4 thumbs up from me pal.
Yes it's a good little trail truck. I've used it quite a few times. It's had a extra set of lights added recently for night trailing! You may like my other video where I use duel batteries. This means less faffing around with the batter compartment!! 👍😄
Hi - it is a good car. The top speed is though only around 17 MPH (I have tested mine and saw other guy on YT having the same result).
Not the fastest thing in the world. But the 144001 motor in mine helps! 👍☺️
yup, same as 12428, she's a basher not a crawler, top heavy and roll over turning fast.
to do list:
the shocks ARE made to be oil filled but they don't have seals. put small servo grommets on a 3 mm diameter screwdriver shaft, carefully slice the button ends loose from the center tube, they install flat side up against the shock bodies under the lower threaded cups. you know the deal, remove lower eyelets, install them wet with grease, go finger snug to the lower threaded caps, then fill them with oil (mine does well with 10w-40, its a 390 powered Virhuck V-01). the front shocks are much shorter bodied with MUCH stronger springs, do the same thing but fill them with spare WPL yellow grease. you'll be able to drop the thing 16" and it'll flop down like a wet dish rag.
next up, attention to steering. these DO have some pretty silly bump-steer, with the balls on the top side at the steering knuckles and bottom side of the inboard slide, it'll go away. I used ball end links and threaded rod on mine, can set the toe in nicely that way. now look at the arm on the servo, the ball is on the outer hole... move it to the inner hole. it's barely less steering but the servo has more torque to do it with, less leverage working against it, also helps prevent stripping the small plastic internal servo gears.
the V-01 came with 3 pinion gears, WLtoys likes to impress with top speed numbers, its harder on the motor and the ESC, so you'll want to look at the pinion gear count the teeth and pick one up that is 4-5 teeth smaller, then play the games to mesh it properly. it was very easy with the Virhuck 12428 copy (390 powered may be different style motor mount). the smallest pinion it came with was a 22t (0.6 modulus), I dropped mine down to a 12t, then mounted 108 mm crawler tires on 1.9" rims... also trimmed 1.5 turns from all 4 shock springs, can lift any tire 4" off the ground with other 3 still down flat. the other mod (TY Steve ShenRC!) was heating and twisting the front A-arms to put the steering king pins vertical, is less stress on the steering servo in a "crawler/bouncer" configuration. if you've watched some of his 12428 modification and run videos you've seen how capable they can be set up like that. my clone can go from 0 to top speed (maybe 11-12 mph) in 10-12 feet to do a short jump if needed, torque and wheel speed is enough to practically run up a wall like the full size bounce cars can do.
no need of going ALL the extra to make it a crawler/bouncer, but definite need of a smaller pinion gear to help save the stock ESC. with the tall pinion it'll pull really hard on the 2S 18650 battery pack, voltage drops and the LVC kicks in to shut the car off... OR, you slap in a 1500mah 25-30C Lipo that overloads the ESC to burn it, because of the tall pinion gear.
yikes, another "wall-o-text" of info nuggets! these chassis have their good and bad points, rolling over when turning fast is annoying, but they ARE built pretty tough and fairly simple to work with or modify. not a great racer or basher, but can be a really great crawler/bouncer without spending too much time or money on them. cheaper 108 mm tires and rims were 13-14 bucks in eBay, gives quite a bit more center clearance to get over rocks etc.
details.. the (edit: they come with WPL kits!) servo grommets are a neoprene rubber, when you slice them they have a flat inner wall to ride the shock rod. the inside of the lower shock cap have a concave around the hole that compresses the rounded side of the cut off grommet making that flat inner wall seal to the shock rod. if it leaks turn the bottom cap 1/8 or 1/6 of a turn tighter should stop the leak, it doesn't need a whole lot more pressure to seal.
Model Nutty do you know off hand where I can get standard size motor brass pinion gears, for MN's and WPLs the last lot I ordered were wrong 😔
Say again 😄
Very weird place for the battery.
I do like the monotone scheme with hints of red on this one and the new body looks great.
The 12428-B (Blue one) has front and rear lights in the body I believe and the body looks good on that one too.
If you are going to put oil or a grease in the shocks check to see if they have a diaphragm and o-rings otherwise they leak really bad ;) Silicone grease works well especially in the rears.
It is a strange place, but given the body style it's fairly logical. And yes it looks great in white, I'm sure I've seen a version which had working headlights. My next job will be to tear those shocks apart and see! 👍😆👍
Headlights and tail lights all in the body and a controller with a digital display with the 12428-B, I think it may be a future purchase for me ;)
th-cam.com/video/g4n4Aj_v4LU/w-d-xo.html
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 oops, just got ya covered :)
I like this chassis and I'm going to get the desert truck version of it and make it nicer. Are parts still around for these?
That would be a nice idea. Are you in the UK? Parts are still readily available. So there's no issue with sourcing them.
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 Good to know.. and I'm in the east coast US so I'd have to wait a bit, but that's fine. I just discovered the Kyosho Rampage that comes RTR for around $200 so might just save a bit more and go for that. My local shop should have it, so no waiting.
Any chance of video of fitting orings and oil to shocks?
Already done one! th-cam.com/video/nJqWDFvYQEM/w-d-xo.html 👍
Now they cost about 145-169 USD via amazon or Walmart site
Tell me about it. Everything has shot up in price. Banggood were selling those Wltoys infraction looking RC's for just under £300 at one point. Ridiculous!!!
I knew you would like it ;) 1st
It's mint! 😆👍
If you don't mind me asking, do you know what the wheelbase is on the 12429?
My apologies. For some reason I've only just seen your comment. 👍
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 No problem. 👍 I found the info. somewhere.
Is ii to possible to put stronger battery?
I intend at some point to fit a higher capacity battery to it. But as yet I'm unsure if it will take a battery with a higher voltage. I will look into though. Thanks for your comments! 👍🙌👍🙌
So I'm guessing there'd be no hope getting my 2600 2s batts in ? That's kinda a killer for me.
I did convert mine to a two battery setup (see later video). But you would have to get creative in order to fit those in. 👍👍
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 well, I already have 2 of the 1500 lions. It will come with one more. Perhaps tvis one for the boy, and the 3 x 2s lipos w 12416 for me.
@@matt79hz sounds like a plan! 😄👍
Between this and the 12428 Which would you choose?
Well I've really only had experience with this one. And because the only real difference between the two of them is the body and the wheels. I would say the 12429 simply because it suits my intended use a little better. The smaller wheels on the 12428 probably aid acceleration and give it a lower C of G. But you could always buy a set of 12428 wheels and bang em on your 12429! I think it's going to come down to which ever you like the look of. The new blue 12428-B looks amazing. 👍
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 thats the thing though I suppose by the time you buy a 12428 and stick bigger tyres on you've got the 9 and visa versa. Its a shame theirs no space for larger battery, i'd consider taking the seats out and mounting it their, in theory lowering centre of gravity at the same time
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 hard to tell in video, the stock tires of my Virhuck V-01 (12428 clone) are the same red chrome looking rims, with 95 mm tires mounted on them. are those larger?
@@modelnutty6503 these are 105mm dia. 👍
Looks like a bargain
There not bad actually. They gone up in price recently. 👍
I watched the funny and informative video well. You have a good hobby. Want to be a close friend.
우리 친구해요.~😀😀😀
Thank you very much sir. 👍🙌
Get rid of the screw drive there a joke
Not sure I follow? 👍
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 that sctew driver they give in bag..like u said why bother
@@stevemdelacruz5602 I get you now! Absolutely Wltoys give you the worst tools with out question. If you've watched my Motivator video you get two batteries and a great little screwdriver/nut spanner in with the RC and it's under £30! It's hit and miss wether you can get the wheel nuts off with the plastic wrench they give you! 👍😄
@@theminiatureconstructionco4556 Thats exactly right