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Forgot to mention you done a better job routing the cable , but mines fine for me, eyesight s not that good that it matters mines got a black out tape covering the chip.

Exactly the same as my fitting apart from L/H part of partition trimmed to allow chip to sit back, no problem will email photo soon.

Keybuk mine are fitted like similar .I have some photos for you but cant post them for the moment cheers

unable to post photos at the moment but not sure why

Been in touch with Hornby and they say they will supply these bogies free of charge when parts are available if their tech boys think it will solve part of the problem, emailling it to Hornby tech services later today.

The bogie on the dummy car is different if you look carefully on the service sheet or compare bogies the moulding is different on top, when I fit to my coach the bogie misses the body step by 2mm and is impossible to clash with the body, just trying to help here.

Remove the rear bogie from your dummy car will pull off with medium strength and do same with a coach bogie make sure its not the pick up bogie which has the copper pick ups underneath and fit the dummy bogie to the coach medium pressure and you will find it is impossible to snag it on the body,going to get some of these dummy bogies from Hornby , has anybody though about getting the spares for these trains from Hornby.

As for sound chip fitting had mine chipped by olivias trains they put the speaker in the tray and the chip inside the body behind the grey door uprights and used a small half round file to remove the plastic on the pcb edge in the tray adjacent to the chip socket just enough allow the wires through to the seating area.

Got two sets last week and had all the problems with mine as mentioned here derailments etc. Have cured the problems with the 3 coaches bogies catching around the bends which are quite decent, clicking bodies etc. Have slackened the screws on the coupling drawbar , not too much just enough so they dont twist and put power lube on the v shape groove and also the large plastic eye under the screw and made sure they dont jam at all by waggling and retighten ar slackened screw slightly in very small increments reqd. Result no more bogies fouling on coaches and derailing. But found and interesting thing abought the bogies, pull of the rear dummy bogie and put it on a coach, non pickup bogie , and found impossible to foul the coach body but the coupling is the real problem .