It took an awfully long time to find one of these at an affordable price in this specification - I'm a bit fussy about what I wanted. It has a Zimo non-sound decoder with stay-alive so it should run beautifully like the 08. Only it doesn't. When it does run it runs beautifully, but then it will suddenly start going all stoppy-starty, despite the stay-alive, then for no apparent reason will go ok for a while. I've taken it to bits many times, all is clean and the pick-ups contact the wheels perfectly. It displayed this behaviour with an Imperium decoder too, so it's not a DCC thing. Since everything I can see or clean is in good order I'm thinking it might be a motor issue, but then it behaves sometimes as though it's only getting power from one axle even though it isn't. Also, the lighting... you can't have white directional front/red rear like Dapol's 08, all you can have is shunting lights at back relative to the way you are going. i.e. no front lights. For the full asking price that's pretty piss-poor. Had I paid full price for this I would be a very dis-happy bunny. As it is, despite being my favourite engine, I rarely use it - it's too much hassle. I'm beginning to realise why the previous owner sold it I think.
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