ZD Racing DBX 10 Review - brushless or brushed desert truck that delivers 

I don't think the disproportionate amount of anger that this is evoking in people is reasonable. I subscribe to RC Review because I appreciate the perspective and opinion, regardless of what the product is. If this product isn't right for you, there are thousands of other RC videos on RU-vid for you to find something you like. I picked up my first couple of RC's from Banggood and it's introduced me to a new hobby that I can enjoy with my kid. People forget that these are just TOYS and this is a hobby for FUN. I know I will eventually buy a Traxxas or an Arrma RC, but not everyone wants to spend $200+ right off the bat on something they don't know if they'll even enjoy. Granted, the Chinese brands aren't always as robust as a Traxxas or Horizon Hobby products, but it's not like the big brands don't have things that break all the time as well. Yes, not having local parts availability is really annoying, but that's also reflected in the price you pay!

I just ordered one in Red , from Banggoods, I currently own the WLtoys 144001 and the Deerc 1/18 300 brushless truck , you did a great presentation on this RC vehicle

Thanks to your reviews, ive bought alot of nice RC parts for my first RC build. Thank you.

Glad ur finally branching out into speed and bashing rc’s also my friend. Really enjoy almost all rc and what it offers so I’m glad ur posting it and broadening ur audience buddy. Great job 👏 😁👍. Let’s see that kraton 6s now! 😂

WOW! 😮 I want one!!! 😂 Fantastic review, man!!! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

The word cheap is the key here. I just got an 1/8 ZD buggy, looks great. here is what I found and had to do to get it to run. I have spent entire day getting this thing into running condition. All drive shafts were a "press" fit into the drive cups at he dog bones! The wheel driveshafts were the worst. Taking the car apart I had to Use a screwdriver to pry the cups a bit to get them out. My shafts are plated in a bronze/orange colour. I was able to remove the coating by filing and simply rotating the dog bones in the cups. Some of the coating was cut when I rotated them in the cups and a very thin sleeve slid off the pins. This pressed fit was binding the suspension movement. The black transmission shaft pins were not pressed symmetrically, again I had to correct that. Next are the diffs, the front one was so tight on the pinion/ring gear, I could count each tooth as it fell into another in a detent fashion, click, click.click......, rear was also too tight. The sides of the differential housings (output coupling holes side) are not parallel, they are caved in (manufacturing/material defect). Due to this there is physical interference between the inner wall of the housing and the differential plastic hub (opposite ring gear). I had to file down the cup a little, use three shims to get some clearance here as well as get the pinion/ring gear to mash well. All screws into aluminium were just drenched in thread locker, had to use heat. Same thread locker was applied onto my front plastic C mount by carelessness eating away at the plastic and causing lots of play at the pivot ball. The motor mount is separate from the centre diff carrier, makes for a messy gear lash adjustment, and keeping the gears parallel is a pain. Looks like ESC is not programable??? Yes comes with Dumborc radio, which is great. Body came smashed as the receiver was sitting loose on top of the car, two days and no response from Banggood, they closed my order and now it looks like it is mission impossible to get into contact with them. I only got this car ($350 usd delivered, no batt) because I live in Indonesia and Arrma products are x2 or more western prices. Yes, it has lots of good looking components, the above issues however makes it a project and deffenetlyf not RTR, yes it ran out of the box but after purchase I did more digging and found vids showing all these issues. So $35 bucks of shims, a new body and a day of work I have a what should have came in the box. I am done with this Chinese shit (have 5 now), the quality is not there. With this one, going up in price and seeing nice looking components I gave them one more and last try. So if a $300 plus (no batt) ZD has these quality issues, what about the one in this review? Might be great, but do you like playing Russian roulett? I like this channel very much, but unboxing and first impressions of these clones will not tell you enough info to make an educated buy. With brand names this "light" type of review is ok, clones need to be really inspected, taken apart to see what you are getting for your money. Now just an opinion, and no one likes that. Living in the west why would anyone look at these cheap rc cars? For little more you can get Arrma for example, then you will have an rc grade car. Chinese clones are just that, clones. Hope this helps someone.

Awesome review! Was a bit surprised to see this on your channel 😅👌

An interesting & useful review. For a budget RC it looks pretty good value for money. Would be interested in full run video to see how robust it is. Thank you for review.

Nice vid.....I enjoy all your content banggood or otherwise

I ran a 5900kv and it rounded the wheel hex and crack the other wheel. Yes you can put 17mm with adapter and extensions. The wheel hex are to long and the nut doesn't secure tight, ends up falling off. The truck is very tough, I flipped it cart wheeled it and nothing broke. Tires ballooned badly. I'll be putting a post on Facebook ZD Racing Group of wheel options. From RC Cars and Music. A good tire to use are Redcat Racing Dukono tires, very good I hit 40mph on grass and street.

Yeah! I know bashers aren’t your cup of tea but your videos are up there with the jang’s- the RC community really appreciates this! But he quit because of harassing RU-vid comments, so be aware! Thank you SO much! Swivels should be standard gives you a place to put the body too!

Finally a review on this!!

Every batten down the hatches. We have entered the age of Rc Reviews Banggood products

Runs like it had a slipper clutch maybe???? You could maybe tighten that or change out the pinion for more punch. Cool rc and great video as always sir. We wanna see the kraton 6s review!!!!! Lol. I know u have it and love it so let’s see it Francis!!!! Haha. 😜✌️

Great video.

Thx for the video. Been waiting for someone to do a review on this. For the brushed version, is it possible to use 2s on it?

Woww... fantastico modello...molto racing ... ciao dall'Italia

Great Work mate. I turned my remote speed to max and it pops wheelies on full throttle constantly. Approx 75% is better for me.

Excellent video

I bought myself a ZD racing 1/8th scale buggy a few years ago; super fun nice design but super brittle plastic and broke the A arm after a couple runs and could not find replacement parts due to it already being unavailable already. Enjoyed the car and knew it would be trash after it broke but course i had hoped it wouldn't be true; if they had parts support i would probably still be enjoying that buggy

A lot of machine for the $. My concern would be replacing parts. Thanks for your good work.

Good entry level car. Wheelbase looks a bit short for the wheel size. And the chassis looks a little thin. So if it gets people into the hobby then it's a good rig. I'm sure durability is moderate to good.

Sold me here in 2024. 234us for brushless and 149us for brushed. I got one of each 😍

Add washers behind the pin on each wheel to take away the looseness in an out. I bough the brushed and just upgraded it to Hobbywing SC8-RTR, 3650 5900kv, I can run 4s.

Merci pour cette vidéo super intéressante Du coup je me suis abonné 👍🏻

Crazy the hate in comments because you reviewed a non-premium brand. I bought a WL Toys twin hammers clone. Should I have bought the TH? No, it's weak too! Ha But I had a lot of fun modifying it, turning it into an IFS Power Wagon prerunner, while learning to braze brakeline in the process. You can break any of them.

I think the remote maybe a 4ch... the same as what I have on my Absima crawler. Perhaps the LED lights on your RC might switch off using the slide switch on the bottom of the main body of the Tx, just above the ch3 switch on the trigger handle.

Hello thank you for this very interesting video. can the motor pinion be changed for a little more speed? what is the original speed? thanks again.

I love the enthusiasm in his videos.! 😜 👍 ❤️ 📻 🕹️ 🔋 🚙 🚗 🚓 🚐

Thanks for the review. Can you please explain what you mean by "if the Lasernut ever arrives"? Are you waiting for a free one sent to you by Horizon? I have the Lasernut from Losi and really love the performance, speed and durability - top notch quality. You can't compare this ZD model to a Losi Lasernut - no way. I would like to see this car really bashed as I don't think it would survive more than a few hard jumps.

I can't wait I want one so bad I have no 1/10 scale rc trucks or cars at all... I can't wait to get one for me and my boys... Wish banggood would send me one for free like other folks...

You should do a comparison between the TRX 4 bronco, and the Land Rover defender. Don’t know if you’ve done that already. 🤔🤔

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hi which battery is right for brushed motor. 2s ok. lithium battery?

The pinion/spur gears are Mod 1?

I just bought one from eBay for $125 with shipping .

So you ordered a Lasernut and it just hasn’t made it? Or are you hinting around to the Rc Review team about how the Lasernut has not arrived. I think I like this here way more than the Lasernut, there broke more then they run. True story. Great short little review Fran.👍

Yea my battery was crap out the box. I would have contacted them but I have had it for 2 months before opening.

I got this but broke the front suspension arm.do you know where I can get them from?

Its crazy what companies are coming out with these days to compete.

I’m really surprised of this one I just wish it was faster, gear up?

4:00 I wouldn't trust that esc, it might not handle the power of bigger lipo packs or some high voltage (xt60 to deans jumper). Still, very nice rc car. Kinda, bigger FY-03 11:03 check adjustable turnbuckles on rear.?

Ks their an after markets for parts??

Put an AXE 550, thick diff fluid and crawl it just for the heck of it! Maybe a decent u4 machine? 😎😎

There are alot of great values now days, but part support is key, cause once break one of these off brands you are screwed.In 2 years this car will be discontinued like all off brands, buy a cheap slash and 12 years later still parts,buy name brands.

Awesome video review. Which one is bigger and better? the DBx 10 or DBx 7? Thank you

So where do we find parts for this?

Metal servo? 3 wire? thanks

Hobby wing motor ? Esc ?

I ordered it but cancelled it do to a shipping address error..It looks nice!

Is this a knockoff Lasernut (losi), looks so similar.

The wheels and tyres are form the old Venom Creeper rock crawler.

Are this the same as absima?!

I want change the servo too slow... have you a ref to advice ? thks

As many of the durability videos on the Lasernut being bad I wouldn’t be surprised if this is more durable

Nice!😀 but 🤔 hmmm... thinking the(DBX10) vs.( LOSI LASERNUT) that would be awesome challenge of off road track racing.😜👍☕😁😯

Why do some come with wing and others a spare tire ?

Fauxzernut. That’s like 90% the same!

Tried looking for the manual and parts availability, there was nothing on my search.

Has anyone else noticed the wheels and tires are identical to an old Venom Creeper?

Find someone w/ a Lasernut and let’s get a heads up comparison.

I have to agree with most of these comments, Bangood is garbage all they do is copy stuff from the big guys. You can get Redcat for just a few bucks more. Tomley likes to push this crap too🤷‍♂️. I don’t watch him anymore. RC Review, you are one of the best out here. I respect your thoughts. But I’ll stay with what my local store/Amain & Tower sell parts for.

So what happens when you break these....... Oh right wait 3 weeks for parts!!!!

The economy has to have a BIG impact on what we can afford to buy. It ticks me off to watch reviews for big buck vehicles that the reviewer gets for free along with a ton of upgrade parts. Yep, nice video, but nobody has the kind of money to waste on some of the stuff put on RU-vid. Waiting 3 MONTHS for anything coming from China gets old in a hurry.

Car snaps drive shafts every time you drive it durability is poor. Fun for the 5 minutes it lasts. Radio needs weather proofing. Nose ⁸ on most jumps and bumper can't take it

That looks like a goolrc esc lol NEVER GET A GOOL RC ESC

That’s way toooooo sloooow for 3s

A cheapo db pro copy 😏

Zd is crap.😁 I know because I bought one. So I would never buy one again. Reduced veh. To pieces, threw it in a g can.🤨 Not impressed at all. Junk. Thanks. Recommending junk is not cool.

gotta unsub. loved your channel. sadly you all bangood on us.......like EVERYONE

😅 zd racing DBX 10 brushless ,It's not worth it for $300 because. Put another $100 you can buy a really good RC car, like the Traxxas Rustler.... I don't say this is not a good car. it's a nice car but that kind of money is too expensive for Chinese car... I would rather go fo r Traxxas Rustler for that money... 😊