Rlaarlo’s XDX-A90 RTR Gets Its First P-Tile Correction
Bad Shoppe’s shakedown of the Rlaarlo XDX-A90 RTR is less a final verdict than a useful first edit: swap the wheels and Yokomo P-Tile tires, then watch what remains to tune.
Haruka Sato4 minutos de lecturaFirst run
The first correction is at the wheels
Rlaarlo’s XDX-A90 RTR arrives in Bad Shoppe’s latest video as a ready-to-run drift car being judged on a surface that exposes small setup mistakes quickly. The useful part is not a grand claim about the platform, but a modest correction: wheels and Yokomo P-Tile tires were changed before the car was run on Élite Drift Shop’s big Japanese P-tile track.
That makes the shakedown more interesting than a pure out-of-box roll. Bad Shoppe says the wheel-and-tire change helped with steering-arm rubbing found in an earlier unboxing video, while a “light crab walk” remained. In RC drift terms, that is the difference between a car that is merely moving and one that is ready for a tune: the clearance issue is eased, but the attitude of the chassis still needs work.
There is not enough verified material here to critique the shell as bodywork — no confirmed masking, paint layering, decal work, light buckets, or finish details are given in the source. So the visible design decision worth weighing is fitment in the practical RC sense: wheel and tire choice as clearance, surface match, and first stance correction, not as decoration.
“ran quite well on Yokomo P-Tile tires on Elite Drift Shop's big Japanese P-Tile track”
Surface
Why the P-tile run matters
P-tile is not a neutral floor. In the RC drift scene it refers to Japanese vinyl composition floor tile used to reproduce the low-grip character of Japanese drift tracks, and it rewards a tire matched to that surface rather than a generic rolling stock choice.
Bad Shoppe names the tire change only as Yokomo P-Tile tires. The source does not give a specific Yokomo tire model or compound, so it would be wrong to turn this into a universal setup recommendation. What can be said is narrower and more useful: on this P-tile layout, with this RTR car, the changed wheels and tires helped the steering-arm rub and let the car run well enough that the channel plans a first-version tune.
The shakedown also keeps the car inside the modern 1/10-scale RC drift frame. There is no full-size metaphor needed here. The driver’s work is at the transmitter, the surface is P-tile, and the tire choice is part of the setup rather than a style flourish.
RTR context
A promising run, not a finished verdict
Bad Shoppe’s description is positive, but it also leaves the correct amount of work on the bench. The XDX-A90 RTR is described as surprising several drivers after the initial run, and the channel places it high in the ready-to-run drift category after the tire change. That is the channel’s read from this session, not a measured comparison across every RTR on the market.
The price claim should be read the same way. Bad Shoppe says pre-order pricing was revealed at $299 USD for the RTR spec of the XDX-A90/964. The source material here is the YouTube description, not a separate confirmed price sheet, so YAW would want that number checked against Rlaarlo’s current product page before treating it as final.
What sits well in Rlaarlo’s apparent pitch is the immediate usability. A ready-to-run drift car has to clear its steering, accept the correct surface tire, and give a new owner a baseline before the first serious tuning pass. In this video, the XDX-A90 does not escape tuning; it earns it.
Where to see it
The video and product link
Bad Shoppe posted Rlaarlo XDX-A90 Ready To Run Shakedown P-Tile Out Of Box on October 21, 2026. The video had 1,428 views, 80 likes, and 11 comments in the supplied YouTube metrics.
The video description also points viewers to Rlaarlo’s product page for the Rlaarlo RWD RTR brushless RC drift racing car XDX-A90. That link includes Bad Shoppe’s referral parameter in the supplied material; the page itself should be checked for current specification, price, and availability before purchase details are printed as confirmed.
Sources
Reference links used for this piece. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.
- 1.Rlaarlo XDX-A90 Ready To Run Shakedown P-Tile Out Of Box
Bad Shoppe on YouTubeComunidad
Primary source for the shakedown, tire change, steering-arm rubbing note, light crab walk, channel impressions, metrics, and posted date.
- 2.Rlaarlo RWD RTR Brushless RC Drift Racing Car XDX-A90
RlaarloOficial
Linked from the YouTube description; current specs, price, and availability were not independently verified from the page in the supplied material.
- 3.P-Tile from Japan Import Opportunity
Super-GTienda
Knowledge-bank source for P-tile identification and surface context.
- 4.Japanese Drift Surface for RCs J-Tile Made by Toli
Houston RCTienda
Knowledge-bank source for Japanese P-tile/J-tile surface context.
- 5.Élite Drift Shop
Élite Drift ShopTienda
Knowledge-bank source identifying Élite Drift Shop as an RC drift shop.
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