XRAY - Model racing cars

Dear Mario and fellow XB8 Racer,

Well, let's put it this way, I really don't want to start involve with this forum with a problem, but I guess luck is not on my side right now... My problem is this (are these?) :
1) The 961025 shims for both of my front and rear shocks will not fit in the shaft, the holes is just too small for the shaft pass through! (I measure it and it's exactly 2.4mm, which is 0.1mm smaller than require), and as I said, 4 shims, 4 shock shaft, none of them fit....
2) The receiver batteries are dead, try to cycle them, they just won't hold charge at all, I am looking at less than 200mAH..
As Mario said, I try to support my LHS too, but what happen is, I am from Hong Kong but I work and live in Thailand, so I check your website and find out that the distributor for Thailand is well, World Model, which is a company in Hong Kong. I bought the car from them, and to make it safe, I bought all the spare pares that I could from them too. And when I came back to Thai, I found out there are plenty of shops carrying XB8, but not the parts, certainly not that little shim! Now I am stuck with the kit and the worst thing is, I am suppose to race my new buggy on the 26-9-2004, which is a series race in THai. To be honest, the XB8 is very nice to build(except two of the o-ring for the out drive of the diff, which is diform badly), but what happen to me is, I am in serious trouble missing this important race all together because of 4 little shims. Can you help me out on this problem? By the way, the serial no. of my kit is XRAY XB8-0040450, just to prove that I am a geniue purchaser...
Anyone can help me out on this, for example a replacement from other company? Any help is greatly appreciated!

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