Steve, nice catch. Your super secret car hiding spot has been compromised. I recognize them magnets. Before I switched teams, Sheryl sent me pics of things she could use to trip you up. Do dought about it. Man she's good. Fangs out Steve. Tim

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for the info

Definitely a nice catch glad it works correctly now.

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Yeah thanks👍

That one was built Friday afternoon. Probably around 4:45pm. WEAK! Great recovery 👍🏻, good work. SCFL!

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

No doubt! Crazy for sure! Thanks for watching.

Great video Steve. Good reminder to check over you cars before you run them and pay close attention to the first few laps.!!!

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Absolutely, it was crazy they put the magnet spacers in backwards!! It's running and looking good now! Thanks for watching 👍

At least the car still looks really cool. Maybe you should just relegate it to shelf queen status! Or better yet, give it to Sheryl, she can probably win with it! 🤣

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Na it was only magnets put in it incorrectly and right now it's running great. 👍

Nice video Steve! Fortunately this has not happened to me.......yet. 😬 First thing I did was rip those tires off and put on Quick slicks. She hauls ass! 😎 See ya!

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Hi with policar track the stock tires on all the cars are not bad they grip really well.. On my track silicones don't work with it only rubber and the urethane tires policar surface not good for sillies. Thanks for looking.

Nice catch Steve. I'm glad you figured it out. I remove the magnets from my cars, so I don't know if I've ever had that issue lol.

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

It was weird but I guess anything's possible? At least now it runs as good as it looks! Thanks for watching.

Someone must have been having a bad day on the Carrera assembly line by the looks Nice pick up Steve 🍻

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

That's for sure! Thanks

Glad you got it sorted Steve . Maybe the shim idea is for people who prefer less magnet force , but either way they should leave the factory with the proper set up 😊well spotted mate 👍

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Absolutely👍 Thanks

Nice work to get it figured out Steve! 👍😊 Seems like poor QA by Carrera.

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

And here we though this only happened with RC's! 😁

That was either a Friday afternoon or a Monday morning built one! LOL! Glad you got it figured out as it is a great looking car and would be a shame to sit in the corner all lame!

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Yep crazy! lucky I figured it out and now it's running as good as it looks! Thanks for looking.

Great video- thanks for the tip!

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

😁👍

Damn good video, Steve. I have the pink pig as well as THAT 911 Gulf. My gulf sucks as well, the pig is my best handling car. I’m going to do what U just did. Thanks and GOD bless, sir.

@BSslotcars

26 күн бұрын

Thanks, check both magnets in your gulf car out, never know maybe carrera wanted gulf cars to lose all races! LOL!!!

Great video Steve That's what I thought it was cuz a couple of my friends had a car with that same problem.

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

O wow this is good to hear, Now I have to look over all of mine! Thanks for the input.

Hmmmm, didn’t think to check the magnets, I’ll have to check mine, and the Aston Martin, it has the same problem. Looks like Carrera hired some newbie’s 😂

@BSslotcars

26 күн бұрын

Yes crazy stuff! Check yours you just never know!

I've had two Carrera 132 cars that came with shims and I thought the mag was upside down, thought it was just me. Thanks for showing this. Now I know I'm not crazy lol. It was The Aston Martin and don't remember the other other one.

@BSslotcars

23 күн бұрын

Yep your not crazy what's crazy is somebody put the shims on the bottom of the magnets!! I for one and looking at all my cars now especially if you get a slippery sliding one!! Thanks for watching.

Such a shame brother, that's a great car with its livery.

@BSslotcars

26 күн бұрын

Yes for sure but good thing it was a easy fix now it's running great. Thanks👍👍

Hi Steve. Carrera offered you an alternative version to use the Magnets. 🙂 That`s what some folks do, to play with the different strenghts of the Magnet(s). It must have been assemled on a Monday morning maybe. We call cars, that are having failures when delivered in Germany, Monday cars. But you managed to find out the fault and it was easy to fix therefore. In terms of the tires, Carrera stated last year, they will use better tires in the future. I got two newer cars and the tires are very hard in its consistancy, compared to former tires, which are like you metioned softer. Remove one of the rear-tires of it and see, if it has the new rims, that have a smaller diameter on the inside of the rims, compared to the outer ring. Carrera does produce these rims the last two to three years which are in my opinion a case for the garbage can. It is difficult to mount aftermarket tires on them, because the different diameters do not fit well on the inner ring. Means it won`t be flat on the surface of the track therefore. Same in the front. In the front though, you want this little contact on the outside of the tire. In the back you don`t. There will always be a gap of the inner ring and the tire then, if you mount aftermarket tires. The tire won`t enclose fully, leaving the gap on the inside. One has to grind off a lot of flesh from the rear-tires, to get it flat on the track surface. On the newer Corvette C7.R they still mounted the better, elder rims, but most other new cars have those crappy new ones. The only thing you could do, to get rid of that problem, is to get an aftermarket tunning-kit, like from Slotinvasion, for the rear axxle. In the front it is not necessarily important to do it, if it has the those terrible rims, like I mentioned before. I checked the Carrera web-site for the replacements axxles and they listed the axxle-kit with the Item-No. 20091039, which is the replacement-kit for the silver Porsche 911 No. 88 Proton Competition you got, as well. It would be interresting, if the axxles on that Gulf Porsche are the old ones, or the new ones. Do me a favour and answer that in the reply comment of this comment please, after you removed one rear tire. If you got the newer KTM GTX/GT2 versions, without the wing-mirrors, you can use that Porsche axxle-kit 20091039 for the KTM as replacements for those new rims. The car runs way better with them and the Porsche tires do lower the chassi a little bit. The tires by Carrera are the Item No. 20089800, which aslo fit on different GT3 cars, like th Ford GT for instance. That being done, that KTM will run! The elder KTM`s, means the first two with wing-mirrors, cannot really snap on these, unless you cut off one of the distance rings from the axxles, or use the replacement -kit No. 20091131 for the blue Porsche 911 No. 93, which is the replacement with the silver rims. That fits perfect. I did just that, because of the rim issues. Both KTM are running much, much better that way. Bye there for now and keep the contest up with your sister. Hello from here to her and to you, too! 🙂

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for the input. I don't know why these 1/32 slot companies make all funky wheels, at least on our policar track all the stock rubber tires seem to grip really good to it much better than on the smoother scalextric and carrera tracks that I once had also, the policar track works great with rubber and urethane tires but silicone is not good on it. Happy slotting!

@bomamo9620

27 күн бұрын

@@BSslotcars Hi Steve, you are welcome. When I choosed the Carrera track system more than two years ago, I wasn`t aware about all the other track-systems, simply, because Carrera is the housholder in that case here in Germany. Today, I would definetly choose Policar, or the new Scaleauto track-system. Scalextric is not my brand to go to. I mainly stick to rubber tires and foam-rubber tires. I only have about six cars by Carrera, who have to run with PU`s, simply because Carrera does not produce the replacememnts for them any more! Carrera stops that after about ten years in mainly all categories of replacement parts. I mainly run analog, but I do run digital every once in a while. But many don`t know, that Silicons are poison for the Carrera Digital -System! The fine dust by Silicon-Tires do harm the railchanging parts and aslo leave a dirt-film on the track, which interrupts the current flow. Therefore one should not use Silicon tires at all. PU's do leave PU-Dust as well, but it won`t harm the railchanging parts, like Sillies do. These two tire materials require a good cleaning treatment. Rubber is my choice to go for. Foam rubber is also very good, because the material hardens out after a while, but you simply smear body-lotion, or sun-lotion on the tires and they become smooth again. Next to the fact, that you can run Foams way, way longer than all other tire-materials. You can get those already glued onto rims, so you buy the whole unit of rim and tire, or you glue them on your rims yourself. There are different foams, that are good for wood-tracks, plastic-tracks, or a mix of both track-surfaces, or real soft ones, by Scaleaouto for instant. They are coded with a color stripe on the tires, just like in real racing series. Have a good one and always a pleasure to help out, or to pass over informations. That is, what we are here for on this earth: To help each other out! Keep your keel in the ditch, Brother and again, many greets over to your sister! 🙂

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

@@bomamo9620 Hi thanks, I use wd40 on rubber tires rub in a thin coat until tires are dry looking and the tires will gab much better but with politrack it's really not needed like with carrera because politracks surface is like a tiny triangles pointed up and it sinks into the soft rubber tires and makes them grab real good. I don't know about foam tires on policar track they probably will grip really good also but may get worn out real quick from it's rough surface. Thank again 👍👍

@bomamo9620

27 күн бұрын

@@BSslotcars WD40 is an allrounder. It is made from fish-oil, in case you did not know that. Do you know Ballistol oil, which is for weappon maintenance? It is used to clean them and it has so many other applications, you can even use it for cooking, because it is regarded also as a nutrition here in Germany! But don`t ask me how it tastes? lol I use it for my bushings, the motors and also on the braids. If you fall into the promises of those slaotcar aftermarket products, I only can smile to that. Ballistol is the only oil you really need, unless you are racing more intensevly. It is cheap and fully effective! For homeracing applications, this is the real deal to go for me. And it prooved it for years by now. If you drip a small drop of it onto your braids, it will clean the braids while running. You also apply a slight oil film onto the rails, which lets the current flow better and it prevents the rails from corrosion, you apply a slight film with it on the rails. For fully corrosion protection, smear it slight film on the whole track every now and then. Carrera rails are made from stainless steel, other track rails are not. This is a secret hint I can give you here. ;-) No doubt, foams can loose their consistence, if they are soft ones, but the other ones do withstand that easy. Check out Scaleautos Foams Steve. Give it a try and be surprised, Brother. ;-)

@BSslotcars

26 күн бұрын

@@bomamo9620 Hi just a bit of info on me I been into slot cars all my life I had my own HO and 1/32 club I had every brand 1/32 track even routed my own but never had the new scale auto but it is like carrera but with a rougher surface so I am thinking it will be nice, I been racing at club level for many years on my 4 lane ho tracks and 1/32 tracks and I even raced in the HO nationals and at many other clubs ho and 1/32 tracks. I know most everything about slot cars and tracks and back when I had my 21x8ft 4 lane carrera track I found it was the best out of all tracks I tried when I made layouts. I know about the stainless rails it has and I love the policar because it has those same rails unlike ninco scx scalextric and artin and others that just get all rusty. I worked for super tires and probably did 75% of the 1/32 tires line by letting them know what ones to make and further doing track testing to pick the best height tires that performed the best on many brands of track. I use greases I made for myself and oils I used to have a website and sold slot car tires and custom painted 1/32 slot cars that looked like they came from the big companies I did them so nice. Also sold my custom greases and stuff, for track rails with carrera it wont rust I had 24 year old track never put any oil on it and it still looks new today but it is good to put a drop or so of oil on a cars braids and run it around the track and for this I use that Caig Deoxit the red formula or the gold and for your controller contact I use the deoxit fader lube the green one, best stuff I ever found to use for these applications. I could go on and on but all I can tell you is Just have FUN running your slot cars that's what it's all about! 😁👍

That's a clever little tester you made, but put together wrong. I wonder how many cars did this person do wrong that's out there..

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Thanks, Looks like they just did it on purpose.

I wonder if that’s what’s wrong with the KTM X-Bow lol

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Probably not that style slot car just is not a good runner. Sand the tires down on the Xbow a lot to get it close to equal with the other slot cars. 👍

@rickyfrench1262

27 күн бұрын

@@BSslotcars I’m a Paul gage urethane tire guy. I tried stock first to test then switched over. Like you said just a tough handling car but that what makes the fun out of these cars. A lot are different. I’m gonna sand them more today just to see if it gets any better. But I think I’m gonna turn it into a non rear magnet car. As time goes on I will be running no rear magnets sometime in the future anyways .wxcept for the kids cars. 🏁👍🏻

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

@@rickyfrench1262 Cool then if your running your tires you can sand them down a lot lower it will be easy compared to the stock rubber tires, I sanded my stock ones down a lot and now my Xbow runs so much better than in stock out of the box form. I ran some of the carrera cars with only the front magnets in and they are a hoot to drive they control very good and you can power slide them with ease and they still handle nicely like the best of both worlds like magnet and kind of like no magnets right in the middle and they run perfect with the one front magnet. Happy Slotting!

Damn dude go spend $15 on a tarp and cover that track lol

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Yeah I always had many tracks in here I never covered them it's not a dirty dusty place but it might just be a good idea! 😁👍

I'm still trying to figure out how to send you my old car but how or should I say what do you use to clean your track

@BSslotcars

27 күн бұрын

Hi You need to e-mail me from the link I shown you in your last reply. I use blower and vac and also sticky rollers to clean the track. 😁👍

Good find… easy mistake and when they assemble hundreds of cars very quickly… seems to be flying now!

@BSslotcars

25 күн бұрын

Yes thank you, I am wondering if they just did it to this specific car? But I don't think so I never seen any other carrera car with the magnet shims in the bottom of the chassis, Now I will always look them over especially when ones not handling so good. 😁👍Happy slotting!