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Errors cars also known as Defects are Hot Wheels that have something wrong with them, such as mismatched wheels, mis-application of tampo, and broken or missing parts.

One off-shoot of some Hot Wheels collectors are what are considered as "Error Cars". In general, error cars are examples of Hot Wheels with some sort of odd difference that gets by the manufacturer's Quality Control.

There are a lot of different varieties found that can be considered as errors. These would include both vehicle and packaging mistakes. Some of the common vehicle errors are mismatched wheels, missing, broken or loose parts and tampo oddities. Packaging errors include vehicles packaged on the wrong card or blister bubble, cars packaged upside down or turned to the left versus the standard right-facing packaging. What some collectors might see as an "error", if more than one example of the mistake is discovered, others might call it a "Variation".

It's impossible to put a value on these oddities, even though they can be far more rare than any other Hot Wheels found. Error Collectors are a niche that determine the value of each individual example. Since errors can be faked, there's not a big demand for them in the secondary market.

Types of Errors[]

Vehicles found with incorrect/non-matching wheels[]

Sometimes Hot Wheels models are released with with notable errors such as having the wrong Wheel Types.

These are most likely just oversights by the factory during production of the casting in question. Errors of this class includes things such as paint missing on one or more of the vehicles wheels, wheels being oddly undersized and vehicles having a pair of a different type of wheel when they shouldn't have.

Examples[]

Missing parts[]

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Packaging Errors[]

Card Errors[]

Tampo Errors / Wrong Placement[]

Coloring Errors[]

Loose, misplaced, broken or extra parts, excess flashing and metal residue etc.[]

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