Need help with my locked car radio.

Help with radio control car mhz compability as original controller missing so need new one advice?

• i have an old fast lane SSR Chevrolet rc car (says on bottom 2003). it has a sticker on the bottom that says 40.685 MHz. the original controller is missing so need to buy a new one. just for sake of argument lets say the original controller is broken and binned 2 years ago so i don't get a reply saying ''just find the original controller...'' anyways since the car runs on 40.685mhz will any radio controller that operates on 40.685 mhz work with it? found these on ebay, they run on same mhz: item 1 number: 130506968493 item 2 number: 170566160927 item 3 number: 150577846077 this item shows the brand of car i have, i got the chevy, not the jeep as shown. item 4 number: 130518353583 from the 1st 3 items i plan to get the 3rd [item 3] one as its the cheapest. it runs on the same mhz as my car. just want to make sure it will work. also what about the channels? as some controllers have 3 - 5 channel. what does that mean? all i want is to be able to fully control my car that runs on 40.685 mhz with a replacement Controller on the same mhz for as cheap as possible. since the rc car is from 2003, and its 2011 now i assume the company has shut down or gone bust??? cant find it by googling. if the company is open and running how much would a replacement be from them? or shall i just go for the cheaper alternative. someone with experience with radio controlled cars please reply and advise me !! out the 3 links provided will any of them work? (4th link is similar to my car so just thought id give the link) thanks

• Answer:

  If it were a real RC model, you would get the receiver/transmitter as a set, or ones with known standard protocols and crystal or digital frequencies. In the language of RC, "Channels" is the number of functions a contoller sends to a receiver. You have more of what is a "toy", in that it's RC system is buil into the card, not modular as in models. With that, you need to get a transmitter which transmits the same data/signal the original transmitted, on your frequency.