Latest upgrade to this dollar store toy. The original car didn't have any kind of antenna on the car, and so the remote range was basically within arm distance.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
I bought an antenna and replaced the one on the remote, then drilled a hole through the body and welded the antenna in the body (Those plastic welders with the metal reinforcements are both very interesting and useful and totally useless depending on what you expect out of it), then connected the antenna to the internal connection which was basically just taped to the roof.
Preliminary test showed that now I can use the remote way past the old range, which is all I'd hoped to accomplish. While I was down there I found that the body already had some cracks because it's 1/64" plastic and you'd get more material out of a coke bottle, so I welded them shut and reinforced the opposing side similarly.
This should've been a Honda Civic, because the upgrades do nothing to improve the value of the thing but cost several times the car's actual worth.
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