A pair weeks in the past we did our first evaluation of an IMEX RC automobile and this week we’re doing our very first Rlaarlo evaluation! Rlaarlo (pronounced Ray-La-Low) is comparatively new on the rc scene, however have already made an enormous splash with their scale crawlers and monster vans. For the previous few weeks we’ve been testing their 1/12 XTS-P12 RTR Rally Automotive to see the way it stacks up. The XTS-P12 was designed to have a extremely scale reasonable look, whereas additionally being extremely succesful, on-road or off. Scroll on all the way down to get the inside track of us!
From: Rlaarlo
Direct Hyperlink: Rlaarlo 1/12 XTS-P12 Rally Automotive
Assessment By: Cubby
Photos By: T-Cash
Specs-
RTR or Equipment: RTR
Age: 14+
2wd or 4 wheel drive: 4 wheel drive
Shaft or Belt: Shaft
Electrical or Fuel: Electrical
Scale: 1/12
Width (measured by BSRC): 6.35″
Wheelbase (measured by BSRC): 8.75″
Motor: 3,600kV brushless
Velocity Controller: 45 amp brushless
Low Voltage Reduce-off: Sure
Radio: 2.4GHz
Differential: Entrance and rear gear diffs
Driveshafts: Dogbones
Shocks: Oil crammed, aluminum our bodies and caps
Screws: Hex
Battery: 3S LiPo w/ charger for automobile, Li-ion for transmitter w/ charger
Half Quantity: #XTS-P12
Prime Velocity (measured by BSRC on 3S inventory LiPo): 33 MPH
Avenue Worth: $189
What’s In The Field- You get the whole lot you must run the truck proper contained in the field, and we imply the whole lot! You get a chargeable battery for the automobile, in addition to a chargeable battery for the transmitter, with each coming with the wanted charging gear. All you’ll have to do is cost the batteries and put some livery on the physique earlier than your first drive.
Construct High quality- Upon inspection of our take a look at unit, we solely discovered one challenge, the ESC energy button had come unfastened whereas in transit from the Rlaarlo manufacturing unit to the Large Squid places of work. A brand new piece of double sided sticky tape later, we have been prepared to tear.
Take a look at Drivers- For a testing crew I did some wheeling, our professional driver T-Cash was available for photos and to push the automobile to its limits, plus we had Iron Mikeee available to check sturdiness. 🙂
Take a look at Venues- We examined on native streets, plus we hit up an area park for some dust and grass testing.
Set-up Notes- We examined the Rlaarlo bone inventory. The automobile features a 3S LiPo battery and charger, however we opted to make use of a Hitec RDX2 Mini to deal with the charging duties.
Turning: Guess what of us, the Rlaarlo has quite a lot of steering. On almost any floor, the automobile had a reasonably planted entrance finish, with the rear being pretty unfastened whereas cornering. The automobile additionally has a little bit of sway to it, and has comparatively softly tuned suspension, which helps to make the automobile drive in a extra reasonable method. We had a blast drifting the XTS-P12 round corners, each on dust, and pavement. Set-up on a rally automobile is de facto exhausting, as you must try to tune for each high-bite and unfastened surfaces, however in our opinion, the inventory set-up works effectively for common bashing. By the best way, our take a look at automobile hardly ever traction rolled, a testomony to the inventory set-up from the manufacturing unit.
Leaping: Large brushless energy and 4 wheel drive assist the XTS-P12 leap very well. Our take a look at automobile didn’t do something loopy as soon as up within the air, in truth it appeared pretty straightforward to leap and land correctly. Now, it’s a rally automobile, that means it doesn’t have quite a lot of suspension journey for large hucks, however if you happen to preserve the leaping extra scale reasonable, it does a stable job.
Bumps/Whoops: Hey, it’s a twelfth scale rally automobile, so it doesn’t undergo the whoops like a monster truck may. Nevertheless, for a rally automobile, it held its personal and didn’t appear to get too out of form within the tough. Rally vehicles have restricted suspension journey, however the XTS-P12 does a good job for the platform.
On-Highway: The XTS-P12 is a good on-road automobile. It’s bought stable energy and turns effectively, thus making it quite a lot of enjoyable to drive on pavement. The inventory tires are a medium’ish compound, which don’t yield a ton of mechanical grip, however on our scorching testing days, allowed them to outlive pack after pack of bashing. All our testing was executed on scorching days, which might have shortly killed delicate tires, so it was good to see a slighly tougher compound used for higher put on traits on this RTR.
Grass: Briefly skinny grass, we have been capable of get round tremendous with the XTS-P12. Nevertheless, in “regular” grass, the low chassis top and road tires stored the automobile from getting round. If you happen to principally plan on driving in grass, we’d counsel Rlaarlo’s monster truck line-up.
Tires: The inventory tires have a really flat profile, which helps preserve the automobile from traction rolling when corning at pace. They’re additionally a medium’ish rubber compound to assist them reside on scorching bash days. The tires have an on-road treading that labored effectively for us on pavement, however have been positively not the recent ticket on dust or grass.
Energy: The XTS-P12 comes inventory with a 3,600kV brushless motor and 3S LiPo battery. This energy system provides the twelfth scaled rally automobile superb energy. It’s a bit delicate proper off the underside, however the mid-range and top-end have a great deal of yank. We felt just like the automobile had greater than sufficient energy for 99% of regular customers, with greater than sufficient for even skilled drivers.
Radio: Oh sure, the inventory radio really provides us one thing to speak about! First up, we LOVE that the transmitter comes with a chargeable battery! We hate having to dig round for AAs, however there is no such thing as a want with the Rlaarlo. The transmitter additionally comes with one-handed thumb steering, a characteristic that the Large Squid RC Bash Crew initially labored along with a significant producer to get placed on the DX5 Rugged. One handed thumb steering turns out to be useful when taking pictures video, or when the going will get tremendous gnarly, so we have been stoked to see it on the Rlaarlo. Whereas the transmitter match our arms comparatively tremendous, we did want it got here with a base to make it simpler/cleaner to sit down the transmitter down whereas not in use.
Damaged Elements: Ya know, there’s a purpose we preserve Iron Mikee on workers. Whereas different “regular” individuals can drive a automobile for days with no breakage, it appears one fallacious look from Iron Mikeee could cause a automobile to snap in half by itself (LOL). So sure, 12.9 seconds after handing the controller over to Iron Mikeee, he slammed the rear of the automobile right into a sign-post. He hit mentioned sign-post at almost full pace, and fairly frankly, we have been anticipating a lot worse than only a stripped camber screw in one of many rear hubs. We put in an extended screw with a nut on the again and have been again to bashing in minutes.
Misc Notes:
The inventory physique has some spectacular elements. The sunshine equipment that it comes with is fairly gnarly, because it even contains an LED for the exhaust! The sunshine buckets additionally look trick, as does the roof mounted air consumption that’s constituted of plastic, however has a carbon’ish look to it. The physique additionally makes use of a hidden physique mounting system to provide the automobile an much more reasonable look
Talking of that hidden physique mount system, at first look we thought it is perhaps exhausting to make use of, however after utilizing the automobile for a number of weeks we by no means bumped into any points with it.
What’s the single greatest draw back of the XTS-P12? In our minds it’s the inventory drag brake. From the manufacturing unit our automobile got here with drag brake set pretty heavy. What this does is, if you happen to hit the brakes, in any respect, the automobile desires to return to an entire cease. If you happen to simply let off the throttle and go to impartial, the automobile will nonetheless self-brake itself to a cease. Eradicating all of the drag brake would make the automobile loads simpler to drive for knowledgeable hobbyist, however the drag brake can really be good for brand new drivers.
Aluminum shocks are commonplace, as are aluminum shock towers and motor mount. Good to see at this worth level.
Oh boy, our testing interval was stuffed with scorching climate. The bottom temperature that we examined in was 85 degress Fahrenheit, with the most well liked take a look at day being 95 levels. Days that scorching make it actually exhausting for an influence system to remain cool, and as we have been driving the heck out of it for testing, we reminded ourselves to maintain an in depth eye on motor temps to forestall any sort of overheating.
Abstract: Did we’ve enjoyable with the Rlarrlo? Oh sure! Might we drive it WFO pinned and have it reside? Nicely, our professional driver drove it completely pinned like he was racing it, and the automobile was no worse for put on afterwards. No, we didn’t go “Tremendous Excessive” with the XTS-P12. That means, we didn’t do any roof jumps, nor did we throw it into any wooden chippers (LOL). Nevertheless, we did push it exhausting like a “regular” client would, and it held up effectively. We love the worth level on the Rlaarlo, the physique appears to be like good, and it was a blast to drive for our bash crew. Sure, the BigSquidRC Bash Crew can completely advocate the Rlaarlo XTS-P12 for you! If have been seeking to give a rally automobile a strive, the XTS-P12 is an effective way to get into rally automobile driving.
