Yes; I own an electric Stampede XL5 and I have broken my left front castor block. I ordered a replacement in plastic from GPM only because I could not pay the price for alloy ones. However, I have ran an electric Stampede with alloy caster blocks and have felt both the quality and precision increase with that upgrade over the stock plastic/GPM.
That upgraded Stampede I ran is a rent-a-truck at my local hobby shop and I've seen countless 10 year olds bash the hell out of their rent-a-trucks because they don't know what they were doing. Those rent-a-trucks with alloy casters have gone through way more abuse than my stock plastic one did that broke.
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