[autoavia]

Thanks for the review. Mine was exactly the same. The pod screws were overtight and the body screws had been grauched up so hard that the front wheels wouldn't turn. The mirrors were so loose that one had fallen off inside the box.

Not really good enough on a model that cost £60 plus which should at least run reasonably well straight out of the box. The problems were easy for a club racer to fix but if anyone bought the car for home racing with a view to upgrading from Scalex cars I think they would have returned the car to the dealer.  

I suspect that some of the Chinese factories are cutting corners on quality control while no one is able to travel to China to check up which is unfair to the brand that commissioned the model, the retailer and the customer.