Gav Tries To Fix Pixel Chix car (with video)
By Gavin Davies
3 November 2023
I bought a Pixel Chix car as spares+repairs from ebay.
I did a bodge fix at first by cleaning the battery contacts in-situ, and it worked intermittently but was unreliable, so I attempted a “proper” fix….
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