- 2,335
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- TheColdWarriors
As a person of limited extra funding. This post here is part of reason I don't run out and buy a wheel. Prices around here for even a decent wheel in my area of world is around $230. I would expect paying that much for a fancy video game controller. It should reliable and last you for a few years at least. And yet I have read so many posts about malfunctioning wheels that leads me to believe that this is not case. A new DS4 only cost around $70 with tax included. Granted the DS4 is not the must durable long lasting product either. The sticks sensitivity goes to poo anywhere from a few months to year after purchase. Of which I use for steering. So I always buy a warranty just in case the controller goes quickly enough. That I can acquire another controller for only the purchase of any another warranty. Maybe if I believed. All I need to become skilled enough to compete professionally and make a living playing Gran Turismo. Purchasing a $230 wheel would be more appealing. Instead to me that's money better spent on eventually buying a PS5. Preferably now from dam scalpers.That was a fun race, I wish you would have told me that you were having "control" issues, by that point in the race I had accepted that I wasn't going to get the win and had slowed down. I think I also used up my tires trying to gain time on you by that point too. I also had problems with my wheel throughout the season, If you ever watch replays you might have noticed sometimes I downshift too the wrong gear or upshift way too early. My wheel downshift and upshifts on its own frequently, I have sent it back to Fanatec for under warranty to have it fixed but they said there was nothing wrong. My guess is that they didn't test it long enough, it will typically shift on its own probably once every 2 laps. I'm getting ready to order an F1 Podium (wish they had something other than an F1 wheel) against my own advice due to customer service issues but there are not a lot of choices out there that I am aware of. It was great fun racing with you, I'm going to need to find quite a bit of speed if I want to mix it up at the front. CW said that it was the wet Spa race that should have scarred us, I dont think I put a wheel wrong that entire race though. I struggled at Tokyo, I just couldn't find the lap time to stay on your bumper no matter what I did.
With all that said. Should anyone wish to donate. I not above accepting free stuff. And I don't mean used malfunctioning piece of poo. Since I not handy enough to know how fix it. And would just end up sitting around my house collecting dust.
Last edited: