How to Repair Hot Wheels

Moving Parts

• 1

  Remove the moving door or hood by pushing in on the part's hinge and lifting it free. The door or hood has a lower or upper hinge that usually has a protruding piece of metal that fits into corresponding holes in the car frame. A worn or broken door or hood should snap right out.

• 2

  Heat the solder using the soldering gun

• 3

  Drop a bit of liquid solder on one of the worn or broken hinge.

• 4

  Let the solder cool for one hour.

• 5

  File the solder into the shape of a tiny pin approximately 1/32 inch in length using the nail file. Even when hard, solder is a relatively soft metal that you can file into shape.

• 6

  Bend the door or hood hinge with the needle-nose pliers, making sure you only bend them approximately 1/64 inch (about the width of your fingernail.)

• 7

  Slide the hood or door back into place by first fitting the original hinge pin into the car frame's slot, then slipping the soldered pin into place.

• 8

  Place the tip of the awl against the repaired hinge

• 9

  Tap the hinge back into a 90-degree angle using the ball peen hammer. As you bend the hinge, the soldered pin will slide into the door frame's hold.

• 10

  Open and close the door. Opening and closing the door will help wear the soldered pin into shape, so that you can open and close the door more easily.

Wheels

• 11

  Remove the broken wheel from the axle.

• 12

  Snip a section of the 32-gauge wire, making sure the length matches the width of the Hot Wheel's undercarriage, and sticks out on either end half the width of the wheel well.

• 13

  Glue one end of the 32-gauge wire into the center of one of the tires using the superglue.

• 14

  Slide the 32-gauge wire through the Hot Wheel's axle hole.

• 15

  Glue the second wheel onto the protruding end of the newly-created axle.