Great Review Dave Brilliant little Track cleaning Truck very impressed with how much it picked up without the magnets👌 blown away with how well that handles as well it’s quite zoomy considering it’s bulky . Running magnetless is so much better once you learn to feather the trigger if you have a good controller. Good episode Dave 🙏
Thank you for this fantastic video! I guess it will still be another month or so before it arrives in the US, but thanks to you, I feel as though I have a nice head start on how to properly deal with the workings of this truck.
Good review of the track cleaning truck. I see a opportunity for a little customization. Some clear windows and a driver with a backwards ball cap and his arm resting on the window ledge. Of course the truck would require home track logo on the doors to complete the look. If I get one it’s probably going to happen 👍
I left the track super dirty after the previous weekend's racing when we managed to work right through three sets of brand new Revoslot rear tyres, so the track had 6 tyres worth of marbles and dirt all over it. It does a great job :)
Just FYI, you can get black guides for Scalextric track, they are available from 3rd party and I do have some (got fed up painting the red ones black every time I raced). You need black to work with Scalextric Arc/Arc Pro or else they won't register laps
@@slotr I've been using autosol on my rails and just a damp microfiber cloth on the plastic but this truck looks a lot more fun,thanks for the no magnet tip I think you've saved a lot of people a lot of money. Great post as always Dave thanks 👍👍👍
@@consco3667 well standard sticker that's on just about every carrera box these days, will not work on a 1/30 carrera banked turn, beyond that I can't really say much as I don't use the banked turns myself
Love the review, especially the magnet caution. This is still on my list to get - I like the image of driving the truck around the track instead of pushing the sweeper I have. I'm also taking the magnets out of my wrecker (yep American here😝) to run it again, after replacing the melted Carrera tires (tyres 😜).
Great review Dave It’s a shame someone at Carrera didn’t test the truck like you to notice the issue I’ve got the first responder truck and the wrecker truck with full magnets but they don’t struggle like the cleaning truck does I’ll weigh them to see how they compare as I don’t remember off the top of my head
Great review Dave!! I have been wondering about these little trucks and I knew who to come to for advice! Thanks for all the insight and detail you put into these. 🤘
Hey Dave. Good video buddy. I hope Carrera issues this truck with English verbiage on it next year, if so, I'm getting one. Also, in the States, Carrera slot cars come with an extra standard black guide instead of the thinner red one. Lastly, round here we call those trucks Tow Trucks. Lol. Take care my friend.
Thanks for the review, Dave! Since this is not a racing car, as such, I'm surprised they did not use a much higher gear ratio to reduce the load on the motor. Just a thought...
This video pointed out something to me. I noticed one of the cars I bought wouldn't move on speed 1. It had metallic strips on the bottom. Those are magnets like you showed. Maybe I need to remove those to get the car to run? I was wondering why it simply wouldn't move on my track when all the other cars I bought do move.
Thank you for a great and thorough review. Maybe smaller tires on the 2 drive wheels would help a bit- i.e. grind them down or use some old tires that were replaced as too small from repeated truing/ cleanup on the tire truing machine. On a 20mm tire 1mm reduction on diameter would increase torque 5% and motor will spin that much faster. Effectively a reduction in gearing.
We don't really CALL them wreckers, they're commonly known as tow trucks-- wrecker is kind of shorthand slang, like calling an ambulance a "meatwagon". "It hauls wrecks". Usually seen and heard in toy naming "The Power Wrecker, by Toy Company!" Or horror movies/stories-- there's a Duel ripoff with a tow truck called "Wrecker", for instance-- as in "It's gonna wreck you". But in normal parlance, they really aren't called that.
I ran it without any chemicals on it, I guess if you put simple green or something on it you'd probably do less laps for the same cleaning but.... I like doing laps with slot cars... I'm not sure I'd want to do something that made less laps the better option :)
I only wish they would release the different types of truck they make as analogue vehicles, as not all of us have digital systems. It's a real pain having to spend extra money for a digitally equipped vehicle, only to have to remove the digital chip and discard it.
@@slotr Yes you are right, but my moan is that you have to spend the extra money to buy the digitally equipped car, at a higher price than the analogue one, when you have no need for the chip. Living in New Zealand makes the cars that much more expensive due to freight costs, which doesn't help when you are on a low fixed income.
I could but there's other things to paint and improve, I do just use it for doing the job of track cleaning, spray a bit of contact cleaner on the rag and drag it round works a treat then put it away again
Hi Dave, good review and introducing of he Truck. Entdecker, written on it means: Explorer. Wir kümmern uns um jeden Dreck, means translated: We take care of every dirt. But this saying in German also cold mean in the outspoken context, that: We give a shit about everything. Ironically meant. This saying can be taken as such, if you will. 🙂 It also discribes a Person, who sticks his/ her nose in everything. A single Person meant here though. The Doublemeanings of words can be tricky and quite amusing sometimes. Just like: Why do bicycles tend to fall over? Because they are two tired. 🙂 I saw this joke on a British Cable Program the other day.
@@slotr School of life is every day, Mate. lol But you better take some days off and take a break from YT-School. That joke at the end can actually not be translated with the meaning in English, into German. Because too tired does not get the sense over in our language. It can`t be associated when it is originally translated I get to experience that a lot. Some stuff won`t get the joke with it, across. Same way in the other direction. 🙂 Keep on going Dave, it gets the dirt of the Track, plus you got a bunch of Magnets now to use for your Frige, for mounting some notes. Upcycling Carrera parts is fun, eh. lol Have some nice days off. 🙂
@@bomamo9620 this reminds me of the thing I read where Terry Pratchett was getting the Discworld books translated into other languages and the bit where Death says "I could murder a curry" is hilarious... but only in English 😁
I need to step in: the word says "EntdRecker", so it means "De-dirter". Little wordplay to match the "Wrecker". And "Wrecker" isn't wrong, when I worked in the truck-business for a few months, we had a "Wrecker" for the serious cases and tow-trucks for the easier jobs.
Unfortunately it does not clean the track slot and should have spring wings to maximize coverage. TrackPro has 20 acrylic weights with pressure points that contour to the variation of the track surface, Also, TrackPro is pushed by your slot car and this added force cleans and conditions your driven slot car tires. Plus TrackPro should last a lifetime and probably longer.
I greatly enjoyed the review, and gave it a "like". Yet, I would be surprised if Carrera designed a toy that didn't work as designed out of the box, since slot cars are so simple , plus my own experience with the reliability from this and other major slot car brands. I assume a track maintenance truck was not supposed to be a race car, so trying to follow the same procedures as if it were to be in a race seems to be adding un- needed complications when one is really just playing with toy cars. If you want to increase the difficulty of operation, no problem from me. I assume the amount of supplied magnetism is to make.a top heavy design easier for children to play with. Or perhaps it has something to do with a durability concern, to reduce the chance of snapping off the following plastic platform if it were to hit something while while swinging wide in a whiplash effect during a turn, because of some necessitous cosmetic realism in the plastic follower supports mimicking steel , because plastic is obviously much more subject to damage, and if you snap off the cleaner, you just broken a toy that is not cheap to replace. . but I have never seen the toy so can't really say that I am in a position to respectfully dispute this review , or it's prediction of burning motors. But I can say that if this reviewers fears were realized about the motor, it would be bad for business, with so many other competitive brands available. Plus a 100% failure rate would cause a lot of returns, and might cause upset to future sales, with both the sellers and customers, in a niche market. I might be a mistake to simply look at the motor and assume it can't do the work, since they all look pretty much the same, even when constructed for different rpm ranges. After all, the effective weight is probably of slight concern once the mass is accelerated, and might be why the thing has six wheels.
not my sort of car, as you know I like GR2 and GR5 cars mostly, but I do also dislike having to sweep my track by hand so I've compromised with myself :)
I don’t understand, this is not meant to drive, right? We don’t care for it to be slow, we don’t want it to be fast. Also, removing the last magnet kinda defeat the purpose, which is to clean, not to polish the track.
With the weight replacing the magnet it cleans dust off the track and the motor isn't straining. If it's more than a quick dust you shouldn't be relying on this truck
I appreciate the review .... However the vehicle is marketed as a track cleaning utility..... Not as a race vehicle..... Common sense would be to run the vehicle slowly in order to clean the track...... Not at high speeds as a race car...... You are not marketing tnis vehicle for its true purpose.
He’s just giving his opinion and valuable info on possibly burning up the motor in no time. It’s a heads up on what you ultimately decide. If you get the truck and burn the motor up you’re gonna bitch at carerra . Well Dave has put you on notice what possibly could happen. I have the track pro contour track cleaner you push with a car. That alone I feel it strains the motor at a minimal.
Cool stuff Dave. You made that interesting for me...a wood track guy. It IS fun to watch it go!
How to have fun cleaning your track! Love the useful slide out cleaning too. Great Video Dave, thank you. AW (just catching up)
Ok I took more magnets out than I had to, but I strongly advise not leaving all of them in unless you like the smell of burning armatures lol
Great Review Dave Brilliant little Track cleaning Truck very impressed with how much it picked up without the magnets👌 blown away with how well that handles as well it’s quite zoomy considering it’s bulky . Running magnetless is so much better once you learn to feather the trigger if you have a good controller. Good episode Dave 🙏
Thank you for this fantastic video! I guess it will still be another month or so before it arrives in the US, but thanks to you, I feel as though I have a nice head start on how to properly deal with the workings of this truck.
Good review of the track cleaning truck. I see a opportunity for a little customization. Some clear windows and a driver with a backwards ball cap and his arm resting on the window ledge. Of course the truck would require home track logo on the doors to complete the look. If I get one it’s probably going to happen 👍
G'day Dave great review on tow truck removing the magnets 🧲 the truck improved 👏 👍 👌
Well done! And the track looks so clean!
I left the track super dirty after the previous weekend's racing when we managed to work right through three sets of brand new Revoslot rear tyres, so the track had 6 tyres worth of marbles and dirt all over it. It does a great job :)
Nice reveiw I was going to ask for times so great you put that in. 😀
Just FYI, you can get black guides for Scalextric track, they are available from 3rd party and I do have some (got fed up painting the red ones black every time I raced). You need black to work with Scalextric Arc/Arc Pro or else they won't register laps
Great info John, thank you
I used to just tape a regular swiffer duster to the roof of a car and go. The truck is quite cool, thanks for the review.
I think you've convinced me Dave, I'm going to have to get one of these trucks 👍👍👍
Don't get me wrong, Henry the vacuum cleaner isn't out of a job, but he is going to take it a bit easier from now on
Any idea if it will work on bank turns?
@@slotr I've been using autosol on my rails and just a damp microfiber cloth on the plastic but this truck looks a lot more fun,thanks for the no magnet tip I think you've saved a lot of people a lot of money. Great post as always Dave thanks 👍👍👍
@@consco3667 well standard sticker that's on just about every carrera box these days, will not work on a 1/30 carrera banked turn, beyond that I can't really say much as I don't use the banked turns myself
Love the review, especially the magnet caution. This is still on my list to get - I like the image of driving the truck around the track instead of pushing the sweeper I have. I'm also taking the magnets out of my wrecker (yep American here😝) to run it again, after replacing the melted Carrera tires (tyres 😜).
Great review Dave
It’s a shame someone at Carrera didn’t test the truck like you to notice the issue
I’ve got the first responder truck and the wrecker truck with full magnets but they don’t struggle like the cleaning truck does
I’ll weigh them to see how they compare as I don’t remember off the top of my head
Good stuff as usual Dave.
Great review Dave!! I have been wondering about these little trucks and I knew who to come to for advice! Thanks for all the insight and detail you put into these. 🤘
Great video dave. Sound advice cheers
Great stuff, Dave 👌
Awesome Dave 👍👍👍
Great review Dave!!
Hey Dave. Good video buddy. I hope Carrera issues this truck with English verbiage on it next year, if so, I'm getting one. Also, in the States, Carrera slot cars come with an extra standard black guide instead of the thinner red one. Lastly, round here we call those trucks Tow Trucks. Lol. Take care my friend.
most of my carrera cars come with a spare black guide and the smaller red one, no idea why this one didn't
Thanks for the review, Dave! Since this is not a racing car, as such, I'm surprised they did not use a much higher gear ratio to reduce the load on the motor. Just a thought...
Excellent review Dave👍👍👍
Thank you Dave!
Great review, thanks. If it'll work on Scaley Sport track, Im in.
This video pointed out something to me. I noticed one of the cars I bought wouldn't move on speed 1. It had metallic strips on the bottom. Those are magnets like you showed. Maybe I need to remove those to get the car to run? I was wondering why it simply wouldn't move on my track when all the other cars I bought do move.
Thanks for the review
Great video. I just subscribed to your channel. 👍👍👍👍
I've been subbed to you for a while too, I like a bit of RC on the side :)
@@slotr awesome thank you!
Thank you for a great and thorough review. Maybe smaller tires on the 2 drive wheels would help a bit- i.e. grind them down or use some old tires that were replaced as too small from repeated truing/ cleanup on the tire truing machine. On a 20mm tire 1mm reduction on diameter would increase torque 5% and motor will spin that much faster. Effectively a reduction in gearing.
Did you get a type 2 bay window bus Slot car yet? I own one in real life and definitely would want one one 😊
Two videos on this channel on that, a straight review and then another where I hit it with the lowering stick 😂
AJ's used to make one for HO tracks; it was called "Oscar"
We don't really CALL them wreckers, they're commonly known as tow trucks-- wrecker is kind of shorthand slang, like calling an ambulance a "meatwagon". "It hauls wrecks".
Usually seen and heard in toy naming "The Power Wrecker, by Toy Company!"
Or horror movies/stories-- there's a Duel ripoff with a tow truck called "Wrecker", for instance-- as in "It's gonna wreck you".
But in normal parlance, they really aren't called that.
Did you recommend using the cleaning pad as is or give it a quick spray of your favorite track cleanser
I ran it without any chemicals on it, I guess if you put simple green or something on it you'd probably do less laps for the same cleaning but.... I like doing laps with slot cars... I'm not sure I'd want to do something that made less laps the better option :)
nothing for "cleaning" the rails?
best way to keep rails clean is run laps my friend :)
I only wish they would release the different types of truck they make as analogue vehicles, as not all of us have digital systems. It's a real pain having to spend extra money for a digitally equipped vehicle, only to have to remove the digital chip and discard it.
You don't have to remove the chip to run it analogue, see video description notes 😁
@@slotr Yes you are right, but my moan is that you have to spend the extra money to buy the digitally equipped car, at a higher price than the analogue one, when you have no need for the chip. Living in New Zealand makes the cars that much more expensive due to freight costs, which doesn't help when you are on a low fixed income.
Whats the height of this truck please?
just over 70mm
Would you be interested in a night of slot car talk with up to 8 other creators. 4 HO and 4 large scale
Time difference and imminent baby arrival permitting yeah sure email is on my about page :)
Very cool, like to get one too, I take it it’s digital car only?
as per the notes and link in the video description, it's a digital truck but you can switch it to analogue mode
@@slotr You got me, I didn't read the more... on your notes my bad 🤫
@@ted.slotcardaddy always read the small print 😁
Why not put a better brushless motor in it than custom paint it .
I could but there's other things to paint and improve, I do just use it for doing the job of track cleaning, spray a bit of contact cleaner on the rag and drag it round works a treat then put it away again
Hi Dave, good review and introducing of he Truck.
Entdecker, written on it means: Explorer.
Wir kümmern uns um jeden Dreck, means translated:
We take care of every dirt.
But this saying in German also cold mean in the outspoken context, that:
We give a shit about everything.
Ironically meant. This saying can be taken as such, if you will. 🙂
It also discribes a Person, who sticks his/ her nose in everything. A single Person meant here though.
The Doublemeanings of words can be tricky and quite amusing sometimes.
Just like:
Why do bicycles tend to fall over?
Because they are two tired. 🙂
I saw this joke on a British Cable Program the other day.
Thank you Bo, every day is a school day 😁
@@slotr School of life is every day, Mate. lol
But you better take some days off and take a break from YT-School.
That joke at the end can actually not be translated with the meaning in English, into German.
Because too tired does not get the sense over in our language.
It can`t be associated when it is originally translated
I get to experience that a lot. Some stuff won`t get the joke with it, across.
Same way in the other direction. 🙂
Keep on going Dave, it gets the dirt of the Track, plus you got a bunch of Magnets now to
use for your Frige, for mounting some notes. Upcycling Carrera parts is fun, eh. lol
Have some nice days off. 🙂
@@bomamo9620 this reminds me of the thing I read where Terry Pratchett was getting the Discworld books translated into other languages and the bit where Death says "I could murder a curry" is hilarious... but only in English 😁
I need to step in: the word says "EntdRecker", so it means "De-dirter".
Little wordplay to match the "Wrecker".
And "Wrecker" isn't wrong, when I worked in the truck-business for a few months, we had a "Wrecker" for the serious cases and tow-trucks for the easier jobs.
Unfortunately it does not clean the track slot and should have spring wings to maximize coverage. TrackPro has 20 acrylic weights with pressure points that contour to the variation of the track surface, Also, TrackPro is pushed by your slot car and this added force cleans and conditions your driven slot car tires. Plus TrackPro should last a lifetime and probably longer.
I greatly enjoyed the review, and gave it a "like". Yet, I would be surprised if Carrera designed a toy that didn't work as designed out of the box, since slot cars are so simple , plus my own experience with the reliability from this and other major slot car brands. I assume a track maintenance truck was not supposed to be a race car, so trying to follow the same procedures as if it were to be in a race seems to be adding un- needed complications when one is really just playing with toy cars.
If you want to increase the difficulty of operation, no problem from me. I assume the amount of supplied magnetism is to make.a top heavy design easier for children to play with. Or perhaps it has something to do with a durability concern, to reduce the chance of snapping off the following plastic platform if it were to hit something while while swinging wide in a whiplash effect during a turn, because of some necessitous cosmetic realism in the plastic follower supports mimicking steel , because plastic is obviously much more subject to damage, and if you snap off the cleaner, you just broken a toy that is not cheap to replace. . but I have never seen the toy so can't really say that I am in a position to respectfully dispute this review , or it's prediction of burning motors.
But I can say that if this reviewers fears were realized about the motor, it would be bad for business, with so many other competitive brands available. Plus a 100% failure rate would cause a lot of returns, and might cause upset to future sales, with both the sellers and customers, in a niche market.
I might be a mistake to simply look at the motor and assume it can't do the work, since they all look pretty much the same, even when constructed for different rpm ranges. After all, the effective weight is probably of slight concern once the mass is accelerated, and might be why the thing has six wheels.
Does it have to look like it's from the 40's. sheesh.
Thanks for sharing your expérience!! The truck is not really my cup of tea......
not my sort of car, as you know I like GR2 and GR5 cars mostly, but I do also dislike having to sweep my track by hand so I've compromised with myself :)
@@slotr 😳🤣👍😎😎
I don’t understand, this is not meant to drive, right? We don’t care for it to be slow, we don’t want it to be fast.
Also, removing the last magnet kinda defeat the purpose, which is to clean, not to polish the track.
With the weight replacing the magnet it cleans dust off the track and the motor isn't straining. If it's more than a quick dust you shouldn't be relying on this truck
I appreciate the review .... However the vehicle is marketed as a track cleaning utility..... Not as a race vehicle..... Common sense would be to run the vehicle slowly in order to clean the track...... Not at high speeds as a race car...... You are not marketing tnis vehicle for its true purpose.
If you try and run it slow with all the magnets in you're going to be putting a lot of strain on what is nothing more than a stock Carrera motor
He’s just giving his opinion and valuable info on possibly burning up the motor in no time. It’s a heads up on what you ultimately decide. If you get the truck and burn the motor up you’re gonna bitch at carerra . Well Dave has put you on notice what possibly could happen. I have the track pro contour track cleaner you push with a car. That alone I feel it strains the motor at a minimal.
Why do you call electronics...electrics?
because I'm from Essex and we habitually ruin the language 😁