Cool stuff Dave. You made that interesting for me...a wood track guy. It IS fun to watch it go!

Nice reveiw I was going to ask for times so great you put that in. 😀

Great Review Dave Brilliant little Track cleaning Truck very impressed with how much it picked up without the magnets👌 blown away with how well that handles as well it’s quite zoomy considering it’s bulky . Running magnetless is so much better once you learn to feather the trigger if you have a good controller. Good episode Dave 🙏

Thank you Dave!

Great review Dave!!

Good stuff as usual Dave.

Great video dave. Sound advice cheers

Great review Dave!! I have been wondering about these little trucks and I knew who to come to for advice! Thanks for all the insight and detail you put into these. 🤘

Great stuff, Dave 👌

Awesome Dave 👍👍👍

Thanks for the review

Well done! And the track looks so clean!

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

I left the track super dirty after the previous weekend's racing when we managed to work right through three sets of brand new Revoslot rear tyres, so the track had 6 tyres worth of marbles and dirt all over it. It does a great job :)

Excellent review Dave👍👍👍

Thank you for this fantastic video! I guess it will still be another month or so before it arrives in the US, but thanks to you, I feel as though I have a nice head start on how to properly deal with the workings of this truck.

G'day Dave great review on tow truck removing the magnets 🧲 the truck improved 👏 👍 👌

Good review of the track cleaning truck. I see a opportunity for a little customization. Some clear windows and a driver with a backwards ball cap and his arm resting on the window ledge. Of course the truck would require home track logo on the doors to complete the look. If I get one it’s probably going to happen 👍

Love the review, especially the magnet caution. This is still on my list to get - I like the image of driving the truck around the track instead of pushing the sweeper I have. I'm also taking the magnets out of my wrecker (yep American here😝) to run it again, after replacing the melted Carrera tires (tyres 😜).

I used to just tape a regular swiffer duster to the roof of a car and go. The truck is quite cool, thanks for the review.

Just FYI, you can get black guides for Scalextric track, they are available from 3rd party and I do have some (got fed up painting the red ones black every time I raced). You need black to work with Scalextric Arc/Arc Pro or else they won't register laps

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

Great info John, thank you

Thanks for the review, Dave! Since this is not a racing car, as such, I'm surprised they did not use a much higher gear ratio to reduce the load on the motor. Just a thought...

Great review, thanks. If it'll work on Scaley Sport track, Im in.

I think you've convinced me Dave, I'm going to have to get one of these trucks 👍👍👍

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

Don't get me wrong, Henry the vacuum cleaner isn't out of a job, but he is going to take it a bit easier from now on

@consco3667

11 ай бұрын

Any idea if it will work on bank turns?

@robertsale6528

11 ай бұрын

@@slotr I've been using autosol on my rails and just a damp microfiber cloth on the plastic but this truck looks a lot more fun,thanks for the no magnet tip I think you've saved a lot of people a lot of money. Great post as always Dave thanks 👍👍👍

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

@@consco3667 well standard sticker that's on just about every carrera box these days, will not work on a 1/30 carrera banked turn, beyond that I can't really say much as I don't use the banked turns myself

Great review Dave It’s a shame someone at Carrera didn’t test the truck like you to notice the issue I’ve got the first responder truck and the wrecker truck with full magnets but they don’t struggle like the cleaning truck does I’ll weigh them to see how they compare as I don’t remember off the top of my head

Great video. I just subscribed to your channel. 👍👍👍👍

@slotr

2 ай бұрын

I've been subbed to you for a while too, I like a bit of RC on the side :)

@allscalerc

2 ай бұрын

@@slotr awesome thank you!

Hey Dave. Good video buddy. I hope Carrera issues this truck with English verbiage on it next year, if so, I'm getting one. Also, in the States, Carrera slot cars come with an extra standard black guide instead of the thinner red one. Lastly, round here we call those trucks Tow Trucks. Lol. Take care my friend.

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

most of my carrera cars come with a spare black guide and the smaller red one, no idea why this one didn't

Thank you for a great and thorough review. Maybe smaller tires on the 2 drive wheels would help a bit- i.e. grind them down or use some old tires that were replaced as too small from repeated truing/ cleanup on the tire truing machine. On a 20mm tire 1mm reduction on diameter would increase torque 5% and motor will spin that much faster. Effectively a reduction in gearing.

AJ's used to make one for HO tracks; it was called "Oscar"

We don't really CALL them wreckers, they're commonly known as tow trucks-- wrecker is kind of shorthand slang, like calling an ambulance a "meatwagon". "It hauls wrecks". Usually seen and heard in toy naming "The Power Wrecker, by Toy Company!" Or horror movies/stories-- there's a Duel ripoff with a tow truck called "Wrecker", for instance-- as in "It's gonna wreck you". But in normal parlance, they really aren't called that.

Did you recommend using the cleaning pad as is or give it a quick spray of your favorite track cleanser

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

I ran it without any chemicals on it, I guess if you put simple green or something on it you'd probably do less laps for the same cleaning but.... I like doing laps with slot cars... I'm not sure I'd want to do something that made less laps the better option :)

Did you get a type 2 bay window bus Slot car yet? I own one in real life and definitely would want one one 😊

@slotr

3 ай бұрын

Two videos on this channel on that, a straight review and then another where I hit it with the lowering stick 😂

Hi Dave, good review and introducing of he Truck. Entdecker, written on it means: Explorer. Wir kümmern uns um jeden Dreck, means translated: We take care of every dirt. But this saying in German also cold mean in the outspoken context, that: We give a shit about everything. Ironically meant. This saying can be taken as such, if you will. 🙂 It also discribes a Person, who sticks his/ her nose in everything. A single Person meant here though. The Doublemeanings of words can be tricky and quite amusing sometimes. Just like: Why do bicycles tend to fall over? Because they are two tired. 🙂 I saw this joke on a British Cable Program the other day.

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Bo, every day is a school day 😁

@bomamo9620

11 ай бұрын

@@slotr School of life is every day, Mate. lol But you better take some days off and take a break from YT-School. That joke at the end can actually not be translated with the meaning in English, into German. Because too tired does not get the sense over in our language. It can`t be associated when it is originally translated I get to experience that a lot. Some stuff won`t get the joke with it, across. Same way in the other direction. 🙂 Keep on going Dave, it gets the dirt of the Track, plus you got a bunch of Magnets now to use for your Frige, for mounting some notes. Upcycling Carrera parts is fun, eh. lol Have some nice days off. 🙂

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

@@bomamo9620 this reminds me of the thing I read where Terry Pratchett was getting the Discworld books translated into other languages and the bit where Death says "I could murder a curry" is hilarious... but only in English 😁

@carrerawahn6683

6 ай бұрын

I need to step in: the word says "EntdRecker", so it means "De-dirter". Little wordplay to match the "Wrecker". And "Wrecker" isn't wrong, when I worked in the truck-business for a few months, we had a "Wrecker" for the serious cases and tow-trucks for the easier jobs.

I greatly enjoyed the review, and gave it a "like". Yet, I would be surprised if Carrera designed a toy that didn't work as designed out of the box, since slot cars are so simple , plus my own experience with the reliability from this and other major slot car brands. I assume a track maintenance truck was not supposed to be a race car, so trying to follow the same procedures as if it were to be in a race seems to be adding un- needed complications when one is really just playing with toy cars. If you want to increase the difficulty of operation, no problem from me. I assume the amount of supplied magnetism is to make.a top heavy design easier for children to play with. Or perhaps it has something to do with a durability concern, to reduce the chance of snapping off the following plastic platform if it were to hit something while while swinging wide in a whiplash effect during a turn, because of some necessitous cosmetic realism in the plastic follower supports mimicking steel , because plastic is obviously much more subject to damage, and if you snap off the cleaner, you just broken a toy that is not cheap to replace. . but I have never seen the toy so can't really say that I am in a position to respectfully dispute this review , or it's prediction of burning motors. But I can say that if this reviewers fears were realized about the motor, it would be bad for business, with so many other competitive brands available. Plus a 100% failure rate would cause a lot of returns, and might cause upset to future sales, with both the sellers and customers, in a niche market. I might be a mistake to simply look at the motor and assume it can't do the work, since they all look pretty much the same, even when constructed for different rpm ranges. After all, the effective weight is probably of slight concern once the mass is accelerated, and might be why the thing has six wheels.

Very cool, like to get one too, I take it it’s digital car only?

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

as per the notes and link in the video description, it's a digital truck but you can switch it to analogue mode

@ted.slotcardaddy

11 ай бұрын

@@slotr You got me, I didn't read the more... on your notes my bad 🤫

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

@@ted.slotcardaddy always read the small print 😁

Would you be interested in a night of slot car talk with up to 8 other creators. 4 HO and 4 large scale

@slotr

9 ай бұрын

Time difference and imminent baby arrival permitting yeah sure email is on my about page :)

Unfortunately it does not clean the track slot and should have spring wings to maximize coverage. TrackPro has 20 acrylic weights with pressure points that contour to the variation of the track surface, Also, TrackPro is pushed by your slot car and this added force cleans and conditions your driven slot car tires. Plus TrackPro should last a lifetime and probably longer.

I only wish they would release the different types of truck they make as analogue vehicles, as not all of us have digital systems. It's a real pain having to spend extra money for a digitally equipped vehicle, only to have to remove the digital chip and discard it.

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

You don't have to remove the chip to run it analogue, see video description notes 😁

@markphillips5368

11 ай бұрын

@@slotr Yes you are right, but my moan is that you have to spend the extra money to buy the digitally equipped car, at a higher price than the analogue one, when you have no need for the chip. Living in New Zealand makes the cars that much more expensive due to freight costs, which doesn't help when you are on a low fixed income.

Whats the height of this truck please?

@slotr

7 ай бұрын

just over 70mm

nothing for "cleaning" the rails?

@slotr

Ай бұрын

best way to keep rails clean is run laps my friend :)

Does it have to look like it's from the 40's. sheesh.

Thanks for sharing your expérience!! The truck is not really my cup of tea......

@slotr

11 ай бұрын

not my sort of car, as you know I like GR2 and GR5 cars mostly, but I do also dislike having to sweep my track by hand so I've compromised with myself :)

@slotcardude68

11 ай бұрын

@@slotr 😳🤣👍😎😎

I don’t understand, this is not meant to drive, right? We don’t care for it to be slow, we don’t want it to be fast. Also, removing the last magnet kinda defeat the purpose, which is to clean, not to polish the track.

@slotr

8 ай бұрын

With the weight replacing the magnet it cleans dust off the track and the motor isn't straining. If it's more than a quick dust you shouldn't be relying on this truck

I appreciate the review .... However the vehicle is marketed as a track cleaning utility..... Not as a race vehicle..... Common sense would be to run the vehicle slowly in order to clean the track...... Not at high speeds as a race car...... You are not marketing tnis vehicle for its true purpose.

@slotr

8 ай бұрын

If you try and run it slow with all the magnets in you're going to be putting a lot of strain on what is nothing more than a stock Carrera motor

@rickyfrench1262

10 күн бұрын

He’s just giving his opinion and valuable info on possibly burning up the motor in no time. It’s a heads up on what you ultimately decide. If you get the truck and burn the motor up you’re gonna bitch at carerra . Well Dave has put you on notice what possibly could happen. I have the track pro contour track cleaner you push with a car. That alone I feel it strains the motor at a minimal.

Why do you call electronics...electrics?

@slotr

6 ай бұрын

because I'm from Essex and we habitually ruin the language 😁