[MrFlippant]

put a piece of tape over the top of the motor, under the ferrite man, to make sure that the legs can never touch the can, even when the body is put back on.

If you have a DPR blank/analog plate, install that in place of the chip, and then put your base in analog mode to run that car. Turn off the lights, and see if there is a lot of sparking visible in the openings of the motor can when you run it with the wheels up, the motor might be killing chips.


I don't think the broken wire for the lights was the cause, unless it was able to create a short somewhere else between the chip and the motor, or on the chip itself.