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I fixed and cleaned up a vintage fiberglass RC12L. Added a spare brushless motor and an airplane ESC I had lying around. The car drives great at slow to moderate speeds but its almost uncontrollable once i accelerate, even on slow settings on the ESC and expo on the remote I have to feather it. I drove it around on a tennis court near my house and it was great, but the old foam tires are in really bad condition and started losing chunks. I want to keep driving it but need to put power to the ground and think some rubber tires would do the trick. Anyone know where I can get radial tires for the RC12L? Looking for something like the in the photo.

There are hard rubber tires for current 1/12 cars but they use the three bolt pattern.

There was a thread somewhere about converting a RC12 to use newer wheels.

Oh I’ll look for that thread then. Converting to new bolt pattern and using new wheels would be better than finding vintage tires.

FWIW the picture of the car with rubber tires is an RC10L (not a RC12L) with Proline 2567 rear wheels/Proline 1063 road hawg tires and RC10 buggy front wheels/Proline 1061 road hawg tires.

Converting the axle to accept newer wheels like juicedcoupe said is a good option, but another one is n20capri here on the site made adapters to run 3 bolt wheels that he sells (sold?) through shapeways:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/VGLQFFT6M/vintage-team-associated-rc12l-wheel-hubs

Could drop him a PM or Email to see what he knows about getting a pair.

Foam tires aren't hard to replace on the rims, truing them without a truer is the difficult part

Dangeruss wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 4:26 pm FWIW the picture of the car with rubber tires is an RC10L (not a RC12L) with Proline 2567 rear wheels/Proline 1063 road hawg tires and RC10 buggy front wheels/Proline 1061 road hawg tires.

Converting the axle to accept newer wheels like juicedcoupe said is a good option, but another one is n20capri here on the site made adapters to run 3 bolt wheels that he sells (sold?) through shapeways:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/VGLQFFT6M/vintage-team-associated-rc12l-wheel-hubs

Could drop him a PM or Email to see what he knows about getting a pair.

Wow thank you so much. I recall having road hawgs on my Traxass Rustler back in the day. I’ll look into the shapeways link. I have a 3D printer and some ABS filament.