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Posted on 27/06/06 07:41:55 |
CamZH
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Tomy Super G Plus Failures
hmm, not sure what the go is with these cars ! I bought one yesterday from the Infamous Toy World at Canning Vale and it has a broken chassis ! So this makes it the 4th one of these i've bought brand new and the 2nd one i've had to return ! thats a 50% failure rate !! Anyone else having these problems ?? |
Posted on 27/06/06 11:00:05 |
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Karl
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
Hi Cam. I've only had this problem after racing the car a few times. There seem to be 2 or 3 common failure points. I can't say I've ever bouht a broken one though. You should consider using the BSRT chassis from Richo and forgetting the SG+ chassis ever existed. That said, I found my SG+ chassis handled better at Kev's than the BSRT so that's what I used (Very Strange????) |
Posted on 27/06/06 11:01:56 |
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richard
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
I've bought about 3 SG+'s new and never had a problem ... maybe I'm not pushing them hard enough  _________________  |
Posted on 27/06/06 20:25:19 |
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CamZH
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
I'm talking about out of box (blister pack) failures ! now i have to trek back to CanningVale to return it ! |
Posted on 27/06/06 21:00:01 |
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richard
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Posted on 27/06/06 22:07:17 |
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Dave in Perth
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
it is becoming quite common these days, others are getting broken cars in packs too.. the BSRT chassis is great, but perhaps a bit 'tight', lots of racers use a smaller diam. Tyco axle in the rear to free it up. But it just shouldn't happen that cars are busted even before use 
And Toy Traders don't give a rat's XXXX |
Posted on 27/06/06 22:18:11 |
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CamZH
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
well they must have a large mark up on them, with a 50% failure rate you need 100% mark up to break even ! How much do these cars really cost cost ?? for us $20-25 retailers probably make $5-10 on them. so they probably cost them about $15 if toy traders is putting 100% on them they are $7.50 inc shipping from china! And i cant see TT putting less than 100% on them, more likly more ! so they probably cost between $2.5-$5 to TT i think if we could buy them at $5ea i'd buy a few, hell at $10ea i'd buy more ! 
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Posted on 27/06/06 22:26:49 |
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Dave in Perth
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
have a mate in Shanghai, but he can't find 'em.. he did find some sets though, the US ones and they were more expensive!!!!! I reckon they are put together in HK.. |
Posted on 03/07/06 12:11:14 |
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richard
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Re: Tomy Super G Plus Failures
Next time we're in Malaysia, I'll be looking at the prices - I think somewhere like Tesco will sell them ... and if they're that cheap, I'll ditch the boxes and bodies and bring back a stack of SG+ chassis _________________ |