Review: NKOK Boats... I want my $$$ back!
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:37 pm
Here's my review of the boats...
They're absolute pieces of shit!
Here's a listing of why they are pieces of shit:
- boat sits slightly tilted in the water
- when pushing forward on one button, the boat turns fine, pushing forward on the opposite button only, the boat goes in a diagonal direction (probably due to the tilt - see above)
- one motor is slightly louder and more powerful than the other (helping it drive in a diagonal direction I'm sure - see above)
- one of my controllers, on one of the reverse buttons, you have to practically massage it and take it out to dinner before it even thinks about actually making contact and sending a signal.
- my other controller won't even accept the frickin antenna! No matter how I align it, hard I press, etc. etc. I even went as far as to open the controller, thinking the plastic around it might be limiting the acceptance of the antenna... nope - not so - it's just a piece of shit that's not been built correctly to the right sizes.
- each controller is run off a 9 volt battery (get out of the dark ages - WTF? a 9 volt?)
- charging stand, which is seperate, takes 4 AA batteries (in case you're keeping count, that's 5 very expensive batteries!)
- there's more to charging... you have a USB type cable that plugs in to the boat, the other end snaps in to the charging base (can we possibley have 1 more thing to screw with before we can actually charge the damn boat?)
- they're slow and not built for modification (though I haven't opened it up yet because I want my money back - the seal isn't made to be broken - though I know it can. inside you'll probably find all hardwired crap that you could do little with)
My overall opinion (in case you didn't read above) - they suck all kinds off donkey balls. Don't waste your money on this cheap, piss poor made, inferior hunk of shit - it was semi-neat for about 2 of the 5 minutes I ran the piece of shit.
Did I mention these things are a piece of shit?
They're absolute pieces of shit!
Here's a listing of why they are pieces of shit:
- boat sits slightly tilted in the water
- when pushing forward on one button, the boat turns fine, pushing forward on the opposite button only, the boat goes in a diagonal direction (probably due to the tilt - see above)
- one motor is slightly louder and more powerful than the other (helping it drive in a diagonal direction I'm sure - see above)
- one of my controllers, on one of the reverse buttons, you have to practically massage it and take it out to dinner before it even thinks about actually making contact and sending a signal.
- my other controller won't even accept the frickin antenna! No matter how I align it, hard I press, etc. etc. I even went as far as to open the controller, thinking the plastic around it might be limiting the acceptance of the antenna... nope - not so - it's just a piece of shit that's not been built correctly to the right sizes.
- each controller is run off a 9 volt battery (get out of the dark ages - WTF? a 9 volt?)
- charging stand, which is seperate, takes 4 AA batteries (in case you're keeping count, that's 5 very expensive batteries!)
- there's more to charging... you have a USB type cable that plugs in to the boat, the other end snaps in to the charging base (can we possibley have 1 more thing to screw with before we can actually charge the damn boat?)
- they're slow and not built for modification (though I haven't opened it up yet because I want my money back - the seal isn't made to be broken - though I know it can. inside you'll probably find all hardwired crap that you could do little with)
My overall opinion (in case you didn't read above) - they suck all kinds off donkey balls. Don't waste your money on this cheap, piss poor made, inferior hunk of shit - it was semi-neat for about 2 of the 5 minutes I ran the piece of shit.
Did I mention these things are a piece of shit?