Brand new G27, E-brake mod failed, help needed!!

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Instead of being smart and practicing a little on an old circuit board, I jumped right into soldering the wires to my G27's shifter board. I tested it on my pc and in the logitech profiler the O button (same place as playstation controller, the right black button) was being pressed rapidly and the force feedback was going haywire. The O button still worked and would make the button say on, as did touching the two wires I soldered. I knew something was wrong so I took the board back out and when I removed the wire from the ground (opposite side of the board says J12) the blob of solder came out with it. I replaced the blob and tested it and everything worked fine. When I was putting the board back in the blob fell off. I fixed it again, but this time when I tested it there is a big problem. The black buttons work fine (other than making the force feed back turn on and off and makes the wheel spin around like crazy), but the d-pad and the red buttons are registering as 2nd gear. On the shifter all the top gears (1st, 3rd, 5th) do nothing and all the bottom gears (2nd, 4th, 6th, reverse) register as 2nd. Hopefully someone out there can tell me what is going on and knows how to fix it. My guess is that on the ground points there is something underneath those little blobs of solder and when it broke off the 2nd time it broke that off as well. If all else fails I may try to put it back together and send it off to Logitech and hope they think it was an error during manufacturing, find a used shifter somewhere else, or *gulp* spend another $300 on a new wheel.
 
You can call Logitech and be honest, maybe they'll help you out. Or maybe sell you just a shifter. Or part it out, and buy another one. You might not make all your $$ back, but most of it, probably.
 
Instead of spending $300 on a new wheel you could get the GT3RS V2 for $180 and get an adapter for the G25 pedals. That's what I did.
 
Sorry dude, it is either spend on a new G27, see if someone is selling the shifter on eBay or what juniordee said.

In the time of the credit crunch, it has always been 'act by the book' so there are no human nature in business (well it is rare). They will tell you it is your fault blah blah..... you will have to buy another one.
 
Yeah I have my doubts that Logitech will help you out, and they're pretty good at detecting mods.

It's going to be seriously difficult to fix it too if pieces of solder have broken off, I'm sure it could be done but it probably isn't worth attempting though. You're not alone, I ruined a MS Wheel trying to do a clutch mod. Turns out that no I don't know how to solder, no matter what high school classes told me :)

I would suggest looking on local classifieds, see if anyone has a broken wheel they`re parting out. Otherwise I would 2nd getting the Fanatec, then at least you can still use the pedals.
 
If that would happen to me i would try to sell just the g27 wheel, buy the Gt3rs with the adapter for g27 pedals. I think that would be the cheapest way :)
 
I ended up finding a G27 shifter on eBay for $50 and I'll just put the broken shifter back in the box and keep it for parts. I've been able to play GT5 using the paddles, but Need for Speed: Shift and Midnight Club Los Angeles won't even recognize the wheel with the shifter unhooked. Next time I'm going to try to solder the wires to a wired controller. That way if I screw that up it will be a lot cheaper to replace. I have to cut the e-brake mount off my cockpit anyway as it is a little too high and too far back, so I might just forget about it all together. Thanks for the help everyone!
 

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