Half the people who have found this thread and own the wheel have had a problem. That's high no matter how you look at it.
Agreed and as I said on the previous page, you cant get any accurate numbers from a poll like this, but you can get an idea of its failure rate. From this small sliver of users here half have had an issue. Does that mean it has a 50% failure rate? No, but it does mean that ALOT of people have had an issue. When you take into account reports of failures on other sites it looks even worse. We will never know what the real rate of failure is. We do know that there has been a lot.So that's 58 people as of now, who have voted in this poll. Hardly representative of the total number of T300's sold isn't it.
I should imagine there's a fair few thousand (maybe tens of thousands) T300's in circulation worldwide so without feedback from at least 90% of owners, these results are seriously skewed.
As has been said, owners without a problem have no need to visit or comment on their experience and I'd say that at a count of 29 each way is not a cast iron guarantee either way regarding reliability.
All I know is my T300RS is still 100% great in every way. Of course, things may change is say 12 months, but as of now, everything is OK for me.
Thx shinu, they are really quick.. They send me a new wheel on monday, and I have to give mine back of course. But dont they even check if my wheel is even broken?
When i get my new wheel I'll need to buy the t3pa because i'm used to the G27 pedals and unfortunately its a huuuuge difference to the original set of pedals of the t300.
Pedals are utter crap, not worth shipping freight, I just tossed them away in disgust, they should not impact WHEEL rating. Wondering how many gave a YES (have a problem) because of the pedals.Unfortunately I have to change my vote to no..
After trying the wheel, I noticed that it had an extreme deadzone (a quarter) of the gas pedal and a bit of deadzone of the brake pedal. I read that you can try to calibrate the wheel with the PC. I wanted to update my wheel, and now it doesn`t work anymore..
Edit: I just went to amazon.it and filled ou the form to replace my wheel with another. On monday it will be shiped back. Before putting the wheel in the original box for shipping, I deleted all drivers from PC, reinstalled them and now it works.. Does anyone know if there is a possibility to cancel the return of my wheel to amazon?
I give it still a negative vote because of the deadzone of the pedals, and the wheel itself has a small deadzone too.
Like it or not, the pedals are included and they are included in the price.Pedals are utter crap, not worth shipping freight, I just tossed them away in disgust, they should not impact WHEEL rating. Wondering how many gave a YES (have a problem) because of the pedals.
Far be it for me to defend Thrustmaster reliability (I had nightmarish problems getting my T500 RS pedal problem diagnosed and ultimately repaired), but this survey would be tossed out by any statistician in a heartbeat. The population seeing it is undoubtedly made up mostly of people who've had reliability issues. PEOPLE HAPPY WITH THEIR T300s HAVE LITTLE OR NO REASON TO FIND THEIR WAY TO ANY T300 THREAD! The sample population is so UNrepresentative of T300 owners as a whole, it's not even funny. Sheesh!There is no escaping the fact that the T300 is unreliable.
I'm not disagreeing with you.Far be it for me to defend Thrustmaster reliability (I had nightmarish problems getting my T500 RS pedal problem diagnosed and ultimately repaired), but this survey would be tossed out by any statistician in a heartbeat. The population seeing it is undoubtedly made up mostly of people who've had reliability issues. PEOPLE HAPPY WITH THEIR T300s HAVE LITTLE OR NO REASON TO FIND THEIR WAY TO ANY T300 THREAD! The sample population is so UNrepresentative of T300 owners as a whole, it's not even funny. Sheesh!
Things were quite peachy at the time I was ordering mine, (shortly after release), with virtually zero complaints, except deadzone on pedals, but who uses those.That said, I have seen far more complaints regarding the T300 than any other wheel. Yes Fanatec had their issues too, also Logitech have had problems, but nothing compares to what we have been seeing recently.
I think that basically GTP is where anyone googling "help, my shiny new T300 seems to have issues" arrives at, since GTP is pretty much the biggest simracing forum out there and there's no real TM forum. So we are getting the vast majority of English speaking forum complaintsThings were quite peachy at the time I was ordering mine, (shortly after release), with virtually zero complaints, except deadzone on pedals, but who uses those.
Has the situation changed recently, wasn't following Trhustmaster threads here, on ISRTV and AC forums I see no complaints. People keep cursing Fanatec but not much from Thrustmaster owners.
Nobody said only that is a bad assumption. If I have a problem i Google for a solution and may stumble on threads like this. I will also naturally find other similar threads. This type of polls will always be heavilly scewed in one direction.
No it won't. There are plenty of Thrustmaster wheel owners who come on GT Planet for reasons other than problems with their wheel, & then find this thread, 37 of whom have already voted in this poll.
There is a standard procedure for resetting the center position of any Thrustmaster wheel.I got my replacement wheel from amazon, and unfortunately I have to say that I don`t recommend this Thrustmaster wheel. The new wheel calibrates itself and when it stops, it`s not in a centered position, but it`s some degrees on the right, and when driving project cars it`s undrivable. I try to update the firmware and hope it will be fixed.
The pedals on this wheel have a deadzone too, just like my old wheel. I think it`s ridiculous from thrustmaster to include this pedals, because they are not good at all and they have issues (i read many posts of the pedals having huge deadzones).