Radio-Control Car Manual: The complete guide to buying, building and maintaining

This book helps you to make your choice of the car you buy.It also helps you by telling you the methodof replacing a broken part or cleaning a car or what type of part you should use to obtain the best result.You can learn different methods of steering you car or overtaking your rival's car on the track at different types of turns.I would most happily refer and prefer this book for my RC Car.There is just 1 minus that it is a short book but I rate by quality and not quantity.I would recommend you to buy it.It is total value for money.

It's written in plain language so is great for those new to the hobby. It also goes into a lot of depth on technical matters. There was little coverage of off-road crawling, which is what I wanted, but then it is an overview. It's a little long in the tooth and requires updating, but then the technology moves so rapidly, there's bound to be developments between the author signing it off and it being available.

Doesn't cover as much as you would expect from the description, mainly not quite as technical as I was hoping for probably not bad if you have bought an electric car as does explain a fair bit but doen't go into any detail about nitro models and to my mind only gives an introduction to everything else. If you know nothing and have an electric car then possibly worth buying but wouldn't recommend it to anyone who like myself is new to radio control cars but having read a bit on the internet have learnt the basics, but now wants to go into more detail on setting up a new car or modyfing it.

I expected more from a Haynes manual. It has very little on large scale RC (1/8 and 1/5) and virtually nothing on petrol engines. It's dominated by battery and nitro. Not much cop for a serious amateur but ok for a young adult or a newbie.

Good broad introduction to radio control, if a little dated. For example the electrics have moved on. Brushless motors and lipo batteries are universal now.Feels like a collection of magazine articles.

Disappointed with this book not enough about TX and RX wanted more on electronics, wiring diagrams etc, waste of money for me!