When you love Aston Martin you need to have at least one to race.
This is new and goes well though it does make a slightly different noise to some of the other cars.
The issue is something on the underside of the car (it does seem a very low car) catches/scrapes on certain parts of the track, especially going over the digital elements like lane changers.
Digital lane-changers do have a tendency to catch any low-hanging parts of a car. A set up plate like this...
... is good to have - it's very flat and you can see through from the underside to find out what's going on. That Mitoos one is the cheapest Pendles sell here. Mine is a simple 9x17cm piece of 6mm thick clear acrylic - with a 4cm slot cut into the front short side and all the edges smoothed off (they can be rather sharp!). Here it is in action...
An alternative is to take a piece of track - which is never as flat as a piece of acrylic - but you can hold it all up to the light, have a look between the track and car and see what might be catching. It could be the gears, so have a long end-on as well - to see the areas obscured from the side by the wheels.
My hunch with a Scalextric car is that the chassis isn't straight. The easiest remedy is to ease off all the body screws a turn - if they are all completely tighten, it can warp the chassis so it rubs on the track. Loosening screws is pretty much the first thing I do to any Scalextric car. Take a look in the SlotRacer's Manual for more details - or there's my Scalextric tuning posts on the Jadlam blog.
A cheaper alternative set up plate is available from TruSpeed. LINK
It can be combined with their Display/Holder to give a neat storage item which keeps the car's tyres off it and prevents flat spotting. LINK
At just £6 the pair (plus p&p) they are excellent value.
(This post was last modified: 26th-Feb-22, 05:27 PM by CMOTD.)
It could be the spur-gear fitted on the rear axle that is hitting the track. Is the tyre diameter about the same as the diameter of the gear? Not much you can do if the traction magnet is still fitted - that will be drawing the car down to the rails.
Leo
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(This post was last modified: 28th-Feb-22, 12:50 AM by Scuderia_Turini.)
Turn the car over and have a look at the chassis, you will certainly see the areas of the chassis that are scrubbing out on the track.
My usual suspects are the bottom of the front splitter, the furthest point on the bottom front the chassis, even the NSR cars have been bottoming out on the overpass entry and exits on my track.
Easy fix is to install grub screws on the top and bottom of the axle and adjust them all slowly to increase the front height of the car, essentially lowering the wheels onto the track adding chassis height
All good advice above,
A fix is not possible until the cause is identified.
To identify the cause, a setup plate is needed.
The quality of the toy brands is often poor.
The worst Scalextric car I've ever had to fix was scraping it's protruding motor "lump" part of the chassis on the track So badly that the car would not move.
An Aussie had bought this car for a pub race day and was perplexed and disappointed by it.
The wheels could not be changed because they were knurled press fit.
The tyres could not be replaced with larger ones because there was no space for that under the body.
The fix , eventually, was major surgery on the chassis, chopping out the motor lump with a modelling knife and replacing the aggressive magnet with one having less force.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of rubbish being produced at the bottom end of the market.
However, some of us are. Mostly, Scalextric cars are great fun to work on and race on a home or Scalextric club track. Occasionally they’ve produced a real dog, but that makes it even more satisfying to get it performing! The current crop of cars (since 2016j are generally excellent when compared like for like… not against an NSR - that’s comparing apples with oranges.
My background - since I was a toddler - is playing with Scalextric, problem-solving issues and using whatever ‘tools’ are around the house to fix things. Yes, a clear set-up plate would be useful for mediaboy - but a piece of track is equally useful (possibly more useful, given that’s what the car is catching on…).
The glory of this hobby is that it’s so diverse. Thank goodness there’s no prescriptive way of doing it - huge fun can be had at all ‘levels of the market’. Sometimes I think we can take playing with toy cars all a bit too seriously…
(This post was last modified: 6th-Mar-22, 06:37 AM by woodcote.)
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