»And now we are going to build a street.«

The steering function of the vehicles is fascinating. Because basically you do not see how it works. To ensure that nothing can be seen, accurate work is required – and to this end, there are several possibilities for road construction.
1. Ready-made road elements made of cardboard
2. The option of individual road construction

Road construction with the cardboard road system
Is the easiest and quickest alternative for road construction! The road elements consist of basic cardboard with an impressed groove for the insertion of the special guide wire and a self-adhesive cover sheeting in the colour of asphalt with roadway markings printed on it. Dovetail joints on the ends enable smooth laying. Furthermore, they provide an exact alignment of the grooves for the special guide wire.

The assembly is conducted by sticking the road elements together and securing them with adhesive tape on the reverse side. You can build multilanes, driving in both directions. The road system itself is conceivably easy to put down and is guaranteed to assure fun driving later on!

Individual roadway building
There are two alternatives available for individual roadway building for the Car System:

A. The build-up method
B. The embedding method

A. The build-up method
In order to steer the FALLER Car System vehicles it is necessary to integrate the included special contact wire into the road. The roadway must be made of a smooth material, for example 3 mm thick plywood and the width must take the steering range of the vehicle to be used into account.
HGVs with trailers require a wider roadway width than passenger cars particularly when cornering. The precise course of the special contact wire is determined by laying it out and partially securing it by means of adhesive strips onto the roadway and marking it there. Now a trial run can be carried out.
Should this take place without any problems, the wire can be attached to the roadway in its entire length using double-sided adhesive tape. In the case of oncoming traffic respectively two-lane roads and in particular when cornering, especially in curves, the structure gauge as well as the pulling out of the other vehicles using the road need to be observed. Two additional wires are attached parallel to the steering special contact wire in the width of the required lane on the right and left side as a boundary and they are marked and secured. As an alternative to double-sided tape FALLER EXPERT Rapid (170500) can also be used for this.
B. The embedding method
The build-up method involves a relatively large amount of filler and modelling work which requires precise measurement adherence and among other things may therefore not be everyone's preferred method. The roadway can be built considerably easier and quicker with the embedding method using a groove cutter. Instead of laying the special contact wire on top of the roadway, it is embedded into it. For this purpose a small groove must be cut into the roadway which is dimensioned in a manner which allows the special contact wire to be precisely embedded in it.

The groove cutter (161669) is ideal for laying the wires into wood materials. The device operates on 12 V DC and has a nominal current of at least 1 A. A suitable power supply unit with the respective performance potential is required for this. If surfaces which are not too hard are used such as poplar plywood for instance, the FALLER transformer 180641 suffices; for hard wood we recommend the 12 V DC transformer made by Böhler.
You can find more details and products regarding roadway construction with the Car System in the catalogue or in the brochure Modelling Made Easy »Car System« (item 190846).