Car Restoration WTH???

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So I got a few of the fancy car restoration coupons. I thought to myself, finally I can restore my old Mark IV and Ferrari and get the crappy chassis rigidity mods off once and for all. So I open the ticket and it says "Bring your current car back to its original state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be removed." Awesome. I click use and it says. "Are you sure you want to restore Mark IV Race Car '67 to its original state? All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be kept." Wait a minute didn't it just say it would be removed? Oh I guess they will just go into my parts list. I click accept and wham bam thank you FOR NOTHING! Chassis rigidity, high rpm turbo, adjustable lsd, and racing soft tires are still equipped. What the heck is going on? Isn't it supposed to restore the car to its original state? As in remove anything I added after I bought/won it? I feel kind of ripped off as these coupons are a one time thing. Did I miss something? Did it mess up? Or is english just not the programmers first language?
 
It says "will not be removed" and it returns high mileage worn out cars back to 0.0 miles, so your chassis is nice and new and you can break in your car for full power and performance. ( I used mine on high mileage UCD cars) cars with 30,000+ miles will never perform like a car with 0-200 miles.
 
So why does it say, and I quote "Bring your current car back to its original state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be removed." That to me sounds like all parts are going to be removed. Right? To be honest when I used the ticket I read the description on the ticket carefully then basically just jammed on the X button until it was completed. It was only when I realized the parts were not removed did I go back to see what the second part was. And I quote "Are you sure you want to restore Mark IV Race Car '67 to its original state? All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be kept." Well if all the parts are going to be kept ATTACHED TO THE CAR and not just in your parts list then the car is not being restored to its original state then is it? It's rather confusing if you ask me. If you ask me by the sounds of what this ticket actually does the description should be.... "This ticket restores milage on your current car back to 0. And in some cases, whenever we feel like it, it removes some parts too" Nothing more nothing less. Damn I'm cheesed off.
 
MarionJ13
So why does it say, and I quote "Bring your current car back to its original state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be removed."
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I agree I wish I would remove chassis reinforcement etc. but use another one or atleast click on it.. I have 5 left I used one last night.. It says that all "extra parts" will NOT be removed.. But the car will be returned to its factory CONDITION.. (not factory STATE)
 
Well I already got my answer so I guess this is fruitless. However it doesn't say all extra parts will not be removed, it says "all tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be kept." This mislead me into thinking that they would be removed but kept in the parts list. It also says in both the description of the ticket and the little pop up that the car will be returned to its "original state." Very misleading and poorly worded. Bad PD BAD!

Just to clarify my point further below is the description and the pop up word for word as seen in my game.

Ticket Description:
"Bring your current car back to its original state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be removed."

Pop up warning:
"Are you sure you want to restore (CAR NAME) to its original state? All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be kept."

As I stated above terrible and misleading choice in words. Maybe PD should start selling insurance or open a legal practice. They seem good and saying everything yet nothing all at once.

Edit: Oh btw thanks for your patience jgancherjr 10 internet points for you!
 
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When you do the chassis and engine mod it says they can't be removed.

You are boring the engine and welding gussets into the frame. Whats done is done.
 
Edit: Screw it nevermind. I don't feel like arguing over "realism" in a video game
 
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NjLowrider
When you do the chassis and engine mod it says they can't be removed.

You are boring the engine and welding gussets into the frame. Whats done is done.
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Buy a new engine and get some grinders.

If you want a brand new stock 67 Ford, get a 1967 ticket and back up store it before opening. Continue opening until you get the car.
 
Exorcet
Buy a new engine and get some grinders.
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Now that's what I'm talking about! Already got a 67 ticket, I just didn't want to go through the hassle and figured this coupon was the solution. Oh well. At the very least I hope this topic clears up the messy wording on the coupon for others.
 
These coupons are good for Standard Cars with high millage.... why use it on a premium car... you can buy it bran new anytime
 
mathieub33
These coupons are good for Standard Cars with high millage.... why use it on a premium car... you can buy it bran new anytime
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Mark IV is 20 million $, that's a awful lot of grinding :/
 
I'd just reload the 1967 ticket until u get your Mark IV
 
The only cars I'd use these tickets on are my Stealth cars as I wont be seeing them come my way again and I only have one of each.
 
MarionJ13
FOR NOTHING! Chassis rigidity, high rpm turbo, adjustable lsd, and racing soft tires are still equipped.
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Apart from chassis reinforcement, all those other parts already can be removed so the only thing that's worth getting worked up about perhaps is the chassis reinforcement.

I didn't put any parts on these classic 20 million beauties as they're most enjoyable fully stock to me (and a turbo is sacrilege), and I don't use chassis reinforcement on any classic cars apart from the Camaro and Challenger RM versions (to make them more different to drive that the regular road versions) as these old cars need to flex a bit.

Having said that, I think a car restoration ticket should make all changes reversible, even the irreversible ones in real life, given it's still a videogame after all.
 
Rit
The only cars I'd use these tickets on are my Stealth cars as I wont be seeing them come my way again and I only have one of each.
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This. I used mine on my Toyota GameStop NASCAR car.
 
jgancherjr
Mark IV is 20 million $, that's a awful lot of grinding :/
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5, maybe 6 Indianapolis races (F1 Seasonal Event) @770p & 200kg Ballast using the F10 '10 will give you the 20,000,000 cr.

That's not a lot of grinding in my opinion, plus, you get about 500k XP per race.
 
Like I also I said re-opening a 1967 ticket a few times is easiest by far.. But if you want to be honest then the Ferrari seasonal is probably the best way to go :) ..but I've been at level 40 for probably 6-8 months so the Exp really means nothing to me :( .. If the level cap was lifted I would GLADLY drive my A off on the seasonals!
 
NjLowrider
When you do the chassis and engine mod it says they can't be removed.

You are boring the engine and welding gussets into the frame. Whats done is done.
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Where are you getting this information from?

Photo from the game shows you're adding strutbraces to the car, nothing about "welding gussets". 👎

Annoyingly enough, a lot of modern car strutbraces are simply bolted-on these days (as shown in the photo), and therefore are removeable... get with the times, PD! :sly:

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Thought I share this to clear things up
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Only reason to use those coupons: Chromelines and Stealths. All others purchase or trade for. PERIOD.
 
s0ul_chicken
Only reason to use those coupons: Chromelines and Stealths. All others purchase or trade for. PERIOD.
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X2010 prototype and S. Vettel?
 
The reason I created this topic was because of the misleading way these tickets are worded. Let me reiterate what I said earlier.

When you read the description of the ticket it says "Bring your current car back to its original state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be removed." Keeping this in mind when you use the ticket it says "Are you sure you want to restore (Car) to its original state? All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be kept." Note "kept" not "left attached"

Being an english speaking native the way this is worded infers to me that the parts will be removed but kept. If your parts are not going to be removed why does it say they will in the description? For example if you were to go to a furniture restoration place and ask them to restore a chair that your kid had put stickers all over and they said "we will restore your chair to it's original state but we will keep the stickers" you'd think that they meant the they will remove the stickers and restore the chair but give you back the stickers unstuck from the chair. This is a crappy example but I hope it helps convey my idea.

Basically the description says it will remove the parts from your car but the pop up doesn't clearly state that the parts will remain attached. Only that they will be kept. It's like saying sure we'll clean your car but there will still be dirt on it. Makes absolutely no sense why they worded it this way.

This is how the description and pop up should be worded in my opinion. Description: "Bring your current cars engine back to its original 0 mile/km state. All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be left attached" Pop up: "Are you sure you want to restore (Car) engine to its original state? All tuning parts, wheels, paint etc will be left attached."

So can we stop beating this dead horse now? It's never going to change. I just wanted to point this out so any other literate people don't make this mistake by using comprehension to infer what they stated as being true.
 
Lol beat that dead horse with a bigger stick! :D .. Anyways good anagram with the chair! Honestly! I made perfect sense to me.
 
I'm rather surprised it made sense as I broke my jaw a few days ago and whatever the doctor gave me is really really good hahaha
 
If you are tired of beating that dead horse - CLOSE THE 🤬 THREAD... SHEESH!
 
Well common sense tells me that I would have done that if I knew how. Care to enlighten me? Or did you just come here to be an ass?
 
Shots fired....man down, lol. (Before you ask, yes I indeed came in in here just to be a smartass, lol) Seriously tho, lighten up people.
 

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