In the previous post, I successfully installed the ESU lighting strips in the intermediary car of my Z24500. Shortly after I removed the "old" LED strip from the two other cars thinking it would be now easy to upgrade with the ESU lighting strips.
I did the tear down and started looking into the ESU strips. As it turned out, there's very little head space in those cars because of the decoders and also in the upper section.
I left that project quite literally collect dust for many months, until today. As I was working on another Z24500 with the original livery, I came to the decision that I will not waste more time on that and gave up on adding the ESU strips.
As we stand today, that Z24500 has only the intermediary car with the ESU trip. I might, at some point, come back to it and reinstall the "old" LED strip. We'll see ....