Do I really need chasis maintenance?

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I've been using the Buick 62 special and I've gotten is some pretty bad collisions and even flipped it over a few times. I don't have the 362,600 cr it's asking me for chasis maintenance. What'll happen if I don't do it. Should I stop using the car?
 
It seems to stop at 500 000. When that happens to both engine and chassi, the car is useless.
If you crash the car, restart or quit if it's an important race...
 
HanSoo417
Does the damage carry over. Every time I go the next race, the car looks brand new again.
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I haven't really noticed much difference, personally, but if you were to do a lap of a track, fix the chassis and engine, then do another lap, you'll notice a difference in the handling and lap time.

Also rebuilding your engine seems to increase the power by a few bhp, my Evo IV was just below 500bhp before and now it's 507, so it's worth it for that, but this is why I try to race in the cheapest car possible, usually.
 
The car won't turn, accellerate or handle like new when the damage adds up. Engine damage is fatal on the expensive cars. Never bump into anything. Better to brake or try again. Check the damage and fix it when it's "cheap".
 
Well I never have seen any visual damage on any of my cars, but some have required amazing amounts of chasis restoration.
 
Don't let the clean racing nazis scare you, I beat my C63 AMG like a red headed step child and have yet to touch the chasis refresh. It doesn't have anything to do with crashing anyways. My car still drives like new. I have yet to see any evidence that suggests not doing one is suddenly going to make your car explode.👍
 
HanSoo417
I've been using the Buick 62 special and I've gotten is some pretty bad collisions and even flipped it over a few times. I don't have the 362,600 cr it's asking me for chasis maintenance. What'll happen if I don't do it. Should I stop using the car?
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I know right I haven't had that many credits at one time yet :yuck:
 
jaysvw
Don't let the clean racing nazis scare you, I beat my C63 AMG like a red headed step child and have yet to touch the chasis refresh. It doesn't have anything to do with crashing anyways. My car still drives like new. I have yet to see any evidence that suggests not doing one is suddenly going to make your car explode.👍
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It does make a difference but it happens slowly so you don't really notice it.

The only time you will realise a big difference is if you actually do the refresh and then drive the car again, you will notice a big improvement.

Overall however if you are still winning races with it there is no reason to stop using the car
 
Ok, I just tested all of this for the sake of argument. I had a HPA r32 that needed 130k worth of chassis repair. I ran 20 laps on the same track (high speed ring). With my very timid driving style, I averaged a 12.1.

Paid the 120k for chassis repair. Ran another 20 laps. Average lap time, 12.13.

Absolutely NO DIFFERENCE at all for me when the car needed 130k in repairs.

P.S. After all these laps, it tells me i need another 130k chassis maintenance where there were ZERO collisions or crashes. It's complete BS. Has anyone actually seen it change prices? I wonder why it stays at 130k for my car?

EDIT: More testing with an opel has given my theory even more evidence.

Ran one race, a few bumps, one spin out. Quit out in 30 seconds. Needed 24.5k in chassis repairs. Ran 2 more races finished one, quit the other. Ran into numerous walls at 130 mph. Finished one race where I was bumping the hell out of computer cars. Chassis repairs needed 24.5k. Looks like it is set in stone based on the cars value. Also, it probably has no effect on cars under 1000 miles on the odometer. Probably only useful when you buy used cars with 50k miles on them. Just IMO.

One last thing. My buick special happens to need exactly 362,500 in chassis repairs. So weird how we could accumulate the exact same damage!!! Oh wait, we didn't. It's a set number regardless of what you do.
 
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Crashing has nothing to do with engine or chassis repairs...so I don't know where some of you come up with your info. As far as I can tell you won't need to repair anything until the car starts performing noticeably poorly.
 
then maybe it has nothing to do with damage and just needs it after the car gets real old.

Also, I thought we didn't have mechanical damage in this game yet anyway...
 
I drove my tuned mazda rx8 600 miles without doing an engine rebuild or chassis restore.

I did both today and didn't notice a difference.
 
I've found that restarting a race right after you crash doesn't make the damage go away... I crashed hard in my Countach and restarted immediately after, and won the race cleanly. I went to GT Auto and I still had a pricey chassis resto price (around 60,000).

Your best bet is to pause the game ASAP if you get punted early in a race (preferably before you smash into a wall), that way you can avoid the chassis damage.
 
People fall into this trap all the time.

Test this please:

Get a brand new car and go do 2 laps of something DO NOT crush at all just go as slow as possible.

When you exit the track enter the car shop and you will see you will have to pay FULL repair cost as if you had totally wrecked that thing There is no damage accumulation cost it's a fixxed price based on the car's price.


I have seen some guys getting freaky with it for no reason, one guy was paying after every race, repair cost for the frame for his B-Driver.
 
Fredag
The car won't turn, accellerate or handle like new when the damage adds up. Engine damage is fatal on the expensive cars. Never bump into anything. Better to brake or try again. Check the damage and fix it when it's "cheap".
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Out of curiosity , how do you check for damage?

Thanks
 
Rigidity restoration is always exactly HALF of the original cost of the car. Always! Engine overhaul I think is a third of the cars price.... but reasonably lower than the chassis refresh.
 
Blitz187
Rigidity restoration is always exactly HALF of the original cost of the car. Always! Engine overhaul I think is a third of the cars price.... but reasonably lower than the chassis refresh.
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My Stealth car was free, what are the chances? No? Thought not. :)
 
Rigidity and engine restoration were also in GT4, which didn't have damage.

It's simply a way of restoring your used car into prime condition. The price is always the same for each car, no matter how much you crashed.

The only question is, after what mileage does it have an effect, i.e. after what mileage does the engine start to deteriorate? I think this can only be tested with the engine restoration comparing bhp. Chances are, the same is true for chassis.

By the way, after you have done an engine restoration, you do not need to make an oil change. It actually tells you it's not needed at this moment, if you try.
 
Fluk3
My Stealth car was free, what are the chances? No? Thought not. :)
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They are the exception yes... I did not mention that because it was not relevant to the thread :)
 
This is the biggest BS I've heard in a video game TBH.

Spending some astronomical amounts of money on "guesses" in terms of if your car needs it is ridiculous - sorry if this is how it's been done before but that's a ****** system. The difference now is that apparently this affects how the car drives.

The amount to repair the chassis is the same even after driving for 1 mile? WTF?
The amount to repair the chassis is simply half the price of the car? Yeah, that makes sense.

And there's absolutely no indicators that you would need a repair because you have the option after 1 race. Why don't they just allow us to GUESS if we need to change the oil by not even showing up what our oil looks like? That's only 250 cR.

/vent.
 
Spending some astronomical amounts of money on "guesses" in terms of if your car needs it is ridiculous - sorry if this is how it's been done before but that's a ****** system. The difference now is that apparently this affects how the car drives.

The amount to repair the chassis is the same even after driving for 1 mile? WTF?
The amount to repair the chassis is simply half the price of the car? Yeah, that makes sense.

And there's absolutely no indicators that you would need a repair because you have the option after 1 race. Why don't they just allow us to GUESS if we need to change the oil by not even showing up what our oil looks like? That's only 250 cR.

/vent.
Dec 03 2010 5:16 AM
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I have to agree, this system seems pretty thoroughly broken. Maybe it will be patched later, but after reading this thread I'm just going to ignore the Chassis Maintenance section for a while. I ended up searching the site about this because GT5 said I needed to spend 45,000 credits to repair the chassis on my '82 Audi Quattro after a couple rally races and I thought that couldn't be right at all, especially since it handles just as well as it did when I first started using it.
 
You need to think of the body & engine refresh the same as you do the car wash 'feature'

ie unless you have just bought the car or performed one of the refreshes it will allow you to spend the fixed fee to wash the car even if it doesn't need washing. The same occurs with the oil change.

The engine & body refresh options work the same way. It is a fixed fee for the service for the particular car. At the moment you have to guess when it might be necessary - which is stupid.

There should be some indicator which lets you know how much performance or rigidity has been lost.

Remember the cost is a fixed fee and is not an indicator of how badly the car needs the refresh.
 
mr_serious is right, just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you NEED to do it. I put 1000 miles on my zr-1 rm, then rebuilt the engine and chassis, and i feel like it made it better.
 

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