XRAY - Model racing cars

Hi

I store the majority of my kit in the garage apart from my cars. I have found that my shells seem to be cracking easy and think as the cold weather is making them brittle is this also best to store them indoors

I think racing in cold weather can be hard on any lexan products. Not sure if your body's are custom painted or one color? Cracks start on paint lines where the artist uses a knife to draw the design. Try using a micro layer of Shoe Goo on the inside of the body. this strengthens slightly and protects against scratches.

andrewd - what type of paint & what brand body are you using? We've found that some of the tamiya spray can paint (white that I know of for sure) will cause random cracking on Protoform bodies even when not running the body. I had a brand new PF body crack in the tail light area just in transportation to/from the track. So I've stopped using Tamiya white spray cans and I only use Duratrax spray cans now for practice bodies and the issue seems to have stopped. Other friends of mine had issues with a particular shade of blue from Tamiya, but others use different Tamiya colors with no problems at all. The Duratrax paints are basically just re-branded Pactra paint after Pactra stopped production. All of the Duratrax cans as well as the airbrush paints seem to be fine on PF bodies.

I do agree that cold weather will make the lexan more brittle, as it would with any plastic item. I would think that the body would have time to warm up before you get to the track and get everything set up though. Worth a shot bringing them inside to see if it helps though!

Hope this helps,
Robbie