I would guess the best thing to do would be to cal Lionel service and ask. That said, I don't think you could blame them if they wanted to charge for the 'repair' as the product is out of warranty. I suppose if it were a very wide spread issue Lionel could issue a recall that would extend the time you have to have the item fixed, but as a general rule, I have little sympathy for folks that leave things untested then want to blame the manufacturers service department for any errors or problems years later. How long an item stays unopened in a box makes no difference to the manufacturer, as they have no way to confirm that. In this particular case, however the malfunction is of the sort where it is obviously a manufacturing error, so it may be they will take care of you. If not, then we have something to talk about, and I'm sure someone here can walk you through how to 'fix' the cars.
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