The large rover wheels

[storm_soldier2377]

The RoveMax XL3 rover wheels really puzzle me. I never really tried those wheels due to the lack of a perceived reason to use them, as well as the difficulty of inserting objects of that size into orbit. So when I recently tried them out on Kerbin and other bodies, a few oddities struck me. First of which is that their motors only seem to work on the initial acceleration and then doesn't go fast. However when you rapidly alternate between turning left and right by tapping A and D, you can move over 90 m/s.

That is on Kerbin, I cannot seem to find a way to use them on low gravity moons at all, which is another thing that puzzle me. The rover just keep spinning and hardly ever brakes. I have no such problem with the other wheels as long as I don't drive overly aggressively. Maybe I need to tweak a bit on the traction settings?

[Blaarkies]

Send them to space as parts. Attach wheel to an i beam, and two small docking ports on the I-Beam. With this you could construct the massive rover in orbit. After landing you can move the rover around to a better/flatter spot...but all this could be avoided by planning ahead

[bewing]

The first part is a known bug: http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/7564

(also reported as #8992). They aren't supposed to go that fast. As far as the low gravity moons thing, you may need to post a picture or a craft file for us to test and make valid comments.