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Broken pieces in 8448 Supercar?
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:17:00 GMT
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I bought the 8448 supercar about 3 months ago. It's been sitting on my desk
at work and hasn't really been touched at all. The doors have been opened
probably 30 times. This leads me to my problem. The doors are raised
automatically by a spring loaded cylinder (I'm not sure of the actual name of
this piece). Said spring is held in place by a small lip in the cylinder that
forces the compression of the spring when the door is down. I tried to open
the doors today and found that the lips on *both* cylinders had cracked,
allowing the springs to decompress into the cylinder itself. End result is
that the doors won't open.
Here's my question. Anyone else seen this happen? Any suggestions about
fixing it? Should I just try to get replacements from TLC?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben
Ben Vaughan
buster@marsbase.com
http://www.marsbase.com
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: Broken pieces in 8448 Supercar?
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| (...) Call Lego, and ask for a replacement. They _know_ that this part breaks often, since it seems to be a pourly designed part in the first place.:) James (who has had to replace one of them already) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Broken pieces in 8448 Supercar?
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| One of my 3 (I got the Formula Flash too) cracked like was expected. I called LEGO and explained that I had both sets w/the defective parts. She said "no problem, I'll send you all 3 replacements at once". After a few minutes I asked about getting (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Broken pieces in 8448 Supercar?
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| (...) Yes, this happened to anyone who bought the first round of these sets (8445, 8446, and 8448) because the first round of the hydraulic cylinders was defective. All I had to do was write to Consumer Affairs describing the problem, and they sent (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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