TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

Photos of a heatsink with fan on an L969.  L959 buggy should be similar. The heatsink is available from Banggood here .  I'm not going to say it makes a difference since I have not tested it.  However, the heatsinks alone seem to do a poor job because none of them fit the motor tightly enough and they tend to move / get loose.  As the motors get damn hot, and as I've already been sidelined once due to a burned-out motor, I think the fan is probably a good idea to stretch motor life. Note the stock motor cover may not fit with this heat sink in place.  (I don't think the cover does anything anyway.) I could not find an appropriate tee / Y-adapter that had the correct plugs to connect the JST-plug fan to the T-plug battery of the L969.  You can easily make one by splicing some T connector harnesses and JST connector harnesses together.  I had bought a bunch of charging adapter cables and so had all the parts lying around anyway. With this ...

Source:  Amazon (Canada) Fit:  Fits stock L959 once rear axle hex nuts are removed. Pros:  Chrome finish.  Pre-glued.  Foam inserts.  Car rides on middle 2/3 of tire, not edges.  Much better rear-end grip, car actually steers rather than skids out, rears stick better than fronts.  Car no longer bottoms out.  Top speed is faster, acceleration better due to improved grip.  Jumps can be more interesting since fat rears lead to interesting takeoffs. Cons:  High-speed turns may be wider since rear end doesn't skid into turns any more and fronts tend to skid sooner, leading to understeer.  Car flips more easily since rear tires grip rather than slide.  Bigger diameter means motor works slightly harder and may not last as long.  Car doesn't handle curb jumping as well: big soft rear tires tend to bounce on takeoff, flipping car end for end.  Arguably not as much fun since it is extremely hard to slide th...

Available from:  eBay Canada (seller: fopower ) Fit:  Fit stock L959 setup. Pros:  Foam inserts.  Much better rear-end grip, car actually steers rather than skids out, rears stick better than fronts.  Car no longer bottoms out.  Top speed is faster, acceleration better due to improved grip.  Jumps can be more interesting since fat rears lead to interesting takeoffs.  Good pricing, you get four instead of two. Cons:  Not pre-glued, you need to glue them.  High-speed turns may be wider since rear end doesn't skid into turns any more and fronts tend to skid sooner, leading to understeer.  Car flips more easily since rear tires grip rather than slide, and without new rear spacers the rear wheels tend to sit a little too far in.  Huge diameter means motor works harder and may not last as long.  Car hesitates frequently due to thermal overload, especially on grass.  Car doesn't handle curb jumping as well: big soft ...

Update:  L959s are still available new as of July 2020; all other models discontinued.  Parts are now generally restricted to Aliexpress.  Still a good entry-level model for those interested but not willing to spend a lot up front. Update:  There is a WLtoys L959 parts store here , but it's unclear if it's actually run by WLtoys. After wading through 50 pages and counting of people discussing the WLtoys L959 buggy, I've decided to summarize the thread so that others don't need to do the same. Note I am not dissing the RCGroups community, without which this list would not exist.  However, the information is - at best - organized ad hoc and is very difficult to read and understand. Hopefully this version is more immediately useful. This information is not intended to be very pretty, and Blogger is actively preventing me from cleaning it up.  But I've tried to include every relevant link, picture and posting that I could find. If you know any...