CSR Wheel Hard-Mounting Issue

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Hello,

I have my CSR (non-Elite) wheel hard-mounted to my rSeat EVO. I recently noticed the satin plastic bottom is separating from the automotive painted top portion. It's coming apart near the port areas on both the left and right sides. Am I overtightening the hardmount points? Am I supposed to take the rubber feet off before hard-mounting? I have removed the desk clamp, but that's it. I don't mind the issue that much, but I might as well bring it up.

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Mike
 
The desk clamp is recommended to leave on. I know this was in the Porsche wheel manuals. I wonder if this is the reason. How deep did you thread a bolt in to the chassis?
 
The deskclamp doesn't fit with mounting to the pre-drilled mount points. I believe the bolts are the same size as the ones that came with the wheel. With the thickness of the mounting plate, I would think less than half an inch into the chassis?
 
You're tightening it too much. You should really only tighten them finger tight and then about another 1/4 to 1/2 turn with a wrench. They don't need to be very tight to hold it in place
 
can you show us a picture?

also which is heavier the csr/csr elite or t500?

my t500 weighs at least 3 times heavier than my turbo s and gt3 rs
 
Here's a photo from my phone. I re-tightened with what thehawk05 said to do and this still happens:

csrwheel_gap.JPG
 
CSR E is heavier than the T500 from what I've gathered on the net. The T500 checks in at 10lbsI haven't found a weight for the CSR E but it's spec'd at 21 lbs shipped.....at most 3-5 lbs of that is box.

One doesn't even need specs to know the CSR E woul be heavier as 98% of the base is aluminum and most of its mechanics are metal as well. About the only metal on the T500 is the motor, the rim and the paddles.....the bulk of it is all plastic.
 
The T500 is huge though... like massive. CSRE could be heavier, I am speculating based on size.
 
VWMasteR
The desk clamp is recommended to leave on. I know this was in the Porsche wheel manuals. I wonder if this is the reason. How deep did you thread a bolt in to the chassis?
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edit: I just reread the GT2 manual, and it doesn't mention leaving the clamp in place when hard mounting.... However, your post has given me some second thoughts.

The clamp would probably just not get in the way for my GT2 mounted to a Rennsport wheel stand. Since my GT2 creaks a little perhaps this is the reason why?
 

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