How to Maintain RC Car Tires

Video Transcript

"Robbie, speaking in behalf of Expert Village. A little more on tires. We're going to talk about maintenance and different applications for the tires. The main thing is, is there's, tires are all, when you get beyond a general purpose tire, you'll have a very specific one. A good example would be one like this. This is a pro line tire, it's called a hole-shot, and if you can see it, it has a real small pin design on it. That's built specifically for like a clay or very hard packed type of track. You would put these on your truck; you'd go out and race it. Main thing you would do is just keep these on a track. If you were to put these on the concrete or the asphalt, you're going to wear them out, pretty much instantly. We've had customers who actually go through a set of tires in fifteen minutes. o when you get into your tires, the main thing to do is just make sure you use the right tire for the right application. Give you another example, this is a really good hard tire right here. It's called a max masher, has this chevron design just like you see on real monster trucks. Much harder compound, these you can drive more on the concrete, asphalt, stuff. The only other real thing you have to do is each one of them has to be either bead-locked on or glued onto the wheel. So as far as keeping your tires in shape, you don't want to get them soaking wet when you clean them, it'll rot the foams on the inside of the mouth. And from time to time, the centripetal force of these tires spinning will cause them to come unglued. So you got to get in there, clean them, glue them back on. So, other than using them for the right purpose, keeping them glued to the wheels and not soaking them in the water. That's about all there is to keeping your tires in good shape"