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That's one nifty little car. Anxious to get one.

What? No spark plug wires?

Very nice!

Maurizio does such a nice job with detail on cars, i'm looking forward to this one... and the others too...

Nice we've been waiting for this one!!

Bruce

When I emailed my distributor this morning about this car, this is the answer I got:

«The Policar Lotus is delayed due to a quality control issue according to our Operations Manager.»

Looks to me like it won't be available at dealerships for a while.

Well so much for my news. Thanks Christian. Wish they would not have sent out the email, I usually go by that as accurate.

My apologies all.

I read where there are shims on each side of the crown gear that the manufacturer installed the wrong size and they are taking apart and correcting each car correcting it. Something they found and that's good.
Shouldn't cause huge delays I'd say. What a looker though with that engine detail and all! That gearing used will be fun too.

Same thing happened with the Lola the distributor sent all of them back due to quality control issues. Hope they get this worked out.
Mike

I'd link another forum so you could see the discussion but I don't know if that's good to do.

Links allowed here. If it helps the enthusiast, by all means.

Here ya go....looks to be soon. Last page talks about the delay.

http://www.slotforum.com/forums/index.p ... opic=71721

Here's the crux of the problem, from Maurizio's post on The British Slot Forum:

"We're about halfway through the process. The issue was completely out of the blue - despite several trips to the factory, when everything seemed to be fine, the assembly line used spacers which were different from what was specified (2x0.05 instead of 2x0.20), something that could lead to early damage of the gearbox, which runs like a clockwork, but as such, requires the use of the specified parts!
This is my 21st consecutive day at work sad.gif - Two batches of cars have left already. Maybe not all, but quite a few cars will be available for Christmas, we think, deliveries permitting.
The bright side is that having checked personally now a few hundred gearboxes, other than the washers mistake, once fixed it runs like it should."

He and Andi Rowland (chief designer of the car), among others, have personally been disassembling cars and correcting the shim error.

Use Racie35's link and go to page 10 to follow the discussion. I doubt that the US will see any of these until after Christmas.

Excellent reporting folks, greatly appreciated.

:text-bravo:

I received an email this morning from policar advising shipments have started on the Lotus
it may be tight for Christmas , but they are as Harry said , on their way.
Bob