Range is... not so good.

[RGM1524]

hey guys, I just bought a new XMOD (after I toasted my 1st one) and threw in all my upgrades, but I noticed that the range is kinda of crappy. Like 10-20 feet inside my house it starts breaking up, and like 25-30 ft outside it starts breaking up. It's brand new and I havn't instaled anything you can't buy at radioshack in it. I've tried switching crystals, w/ and w/o the light kit on it. Anyone know what the problem is? upgrades are:

stage 2 top speed motor
suspension and steering kit
light kit

[rplpt]

make sure the antenna wire is connected to the antenna right, and make sure the antenna wire is correctly soldered to the PCB..!..

[captain_woof]

lol

got this rangeproblem too and after some webbrowsing I saw that there was a loose screw on the pcb. There it was the antenna connector.
I feel so stupid