Restore body rigidity

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Hi, I am having abit of trouble now. I have raced my 458 Italia on the a-spec ferrari event. I did not bump into any cars or walls, but after the race I checked GT auto. They want 141.500 to restore Body Rigidity.. So I actually loose money on winning that race..

Anyone else having trouble with this?
 
They're not forcing you to do it. It's telling you that it's an available option should you require to do it.
 
It's so odd that this option costs the same whether you have just a small dent on your bumper or if you have totalled your car at 300 kph.
 
I wouldn't bother with this, as soon as your use your car again it'll cost you the exact same price to restore it again. I think it may be a bug.
 
I think the chassis restore is only really meant to be used if you notice that your car is getting sloppy. It's not to be used after every race. It's for high mileage, abused cars as far as I can tell.
 
It's very hard to know when this option comes in handy, I've not yet experienced any of my cars starting to act like they are particularly damaged even though I've smashed up some of them quite good, especially my 91 skyline.
 
gambleboyen
It's so odd that this option costs the same whether you have just a small dent on your bumper or if you have totalled your car at 300 kph.
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It is not a repair bill. It is an option to 'restore rigidity' to say, that used car you bought with 300,000km. It is not a bill to fix the dent in your car.
 
Aureus
It is not a repair bill. It is an option to 'restore rigidity' to say, that used car you bought with 300,000km. It is not a bill to fix the dent in your car.
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Then the option shouldnt even be available if all you have is that small dent. I wonder how many are restoring their cars rigidity for no reason and thus wasting their money just because the game doesnt say what this actually means, and even worse it doesn't tell you it's not necessary yet?
 
gambleboyen
Then the option shouldnt even be available if all you have is that small dent. I wonder how many are restoring their cars rigidity for no reason and thus wasting their money just because the game doesnt say what this actually means, and even worse it doesn't tell you it's not necessary yet?
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The option is available once the rigidity of your car has weakened, even if it's weakened only a tiny bit. It would be nice if GT5 gave you some advise on when it would be best to restore rigidity, but ultimately it's up to you.
 
I agree that this is really retarded. I took the Veyron out for a test drive in practice mode, did 1 lap and didn't crash once. Checked to see if chassis maintenance was already available, and sure as hell it was. For 500,000 credits. I notice nothing wrong with the handling of the car, so I didn't do it, but just don't see how it makes any sense at all.
 
I noticed that it's 19,000cr for my FD RX-7, but it's something like 200,000cr for some Skyline from the 60s. So I just said #$%^ it for the skyline, and the old used thing won several series I drove it in without restoring the chasis at all. It drove just fine, though at maximum tune it was only like 160 horsepower.

Restoring the body rigidity probably only needs to be done extremely rarely.
 
JeffKill
I agree that this is really retarded. I took the Veyron out for a test drive in practice mode, did 1 lap and didn't crash once. Checked to see if chassis maintenance was already available, and sure as hell it was. For 500,000 credits. I notice nothing wrong with the handling of the car, so I didn't do it, but just don't see how it makes any sense at all.
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A 1,000HP/900TQ engine is bound to be hard on any chassis.

And also consider that in real life, a Bugatti Veyron costs about 300,000$/year for maintenance.
 
Yeah, guess I have wasted a few 100.000 on that then..
Wish I had a meter to tell me how much the weaker rigidity effected the car. I always like to keep my cars in the garage perfect.. but there is no hope in that at those prices..
 
I believe the cost is meant to reflect the going rate to have a car professionally disassembled and then rebuilt, after "restore body rigidity" is completed. Commonly modified and raced cars, like my RX-7, get this restoration cheap (19,000cr), while rare and/or very expensive cars are expensive since they don't ever get such treatment in real life.

There are more people out there that know how and are willing to entirely disassemble ( then do work on the frame) and reassemble an RX-7 out there, than say, a Bugatti Veyron.
 
yeah I agree this has to be one of the dumbest things in the game. It sounds like a good idea, if you wreck your car you have to pay to fix it. But they really drop the ball on this one. It definitely needs to be a scaled thing. If you have a tiny bump its a small amount of money and if you have a big wreck its a lot more. Although the damage effects don't even make any sense so how would this? As far as I can tell there is no need to even spend your money on this
 
This is where I like Forza 3 better. After any event you get money subtracted from your winnings based on how badly you damaged the car. It's simple, understandable and it makes all the sense in the world. In GT5 it's completely beyond me what exact consequences damage has and when I need to shell out to get things fixed.
 
JeffKill
I agree that this is really retarded. I took the Veyron out for a test drive in practice mode, did 1 lap and didn't crash once. Checked to see if chassis maintenance was already available, and sure as hell it was. For 500,000 credits. I notice nothing wrong with the handling of the car, so I didn't do it, but just don't see how it makes any sense at all.
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I saw that too on my Veyron. I let my b spec driver smash it up in the cities. I watched it do lots of head on wall rams. Just for grins, I did some before and after races. I couldn't tell any difference after spending 500K for chassis repair.
 
wills2084
yeah I agree this has to be one of the dumbest things in the game. It sounds like a good idea, if you wreck your car you have to pay to fix it. But they really drop the ball on this one. It definitely needs to be a scaled thing. If you have a tiny bump its a small amount of money and if you have a big wreck its a lot more. Although the damage effects don't even make any sense so how would this? As far as I can tell there is no need to even spend your money on this
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It is not a damage repair bill, and it has nothing to do with how badly or how often you crash. It also has a fixed price for each car, and that fixed price is half the purchase price.

This game does have the start of a decent manual, but it is in a dire need of fleshing out, and the relevant help page(s) should be accessible from the appropriate screen given that the whole thing is digital. It also badly needs a physical copy or even a digital version on my computer.
 
It's not as big a deal as many have made it out to be. Worry about refreshing your chassis when the handling of your car deteriorates enough to become unmanageable.
 
Body Rigidity Repair is to fix cars that have been subjected to high torsional forces - high speed turns on the track.

It has nothing to do with crashing in to walls - everytime you take your car round the track the chassis is bent out of shape. Theoretically it can impact the handling of the car.

This was in GT4.
 
I think this feature is awesome! 👍

It is NOT meant to be used all the time on all cars.

It is meant to show us that the rigidity of any car is prone to be affected everytime we go race it, the structure of the car is always working and will always lose from its pristine original condition (out of the factory).

For me, i would use this feature (when credit would allow me) on used car in the lot, and every so often on cars that i would use on a regular basis.

This is really an option for neat pickers ;) maniac freak!
 
To me this feature only makes sense if there's some sort of indicator of the shape in which your car is. Right now it's all just guessing which makes it an annoying feature to me. There's no way to get any kind of report on the status of the chassis or any other parts of the car so who knows when we need oil changes, engine rebuilds, new tires etc?
 
You are right TheMarco ;) 👍
Right now we are playing the guessing game.

But i guess in real life, it would be kind of similar, since you have to way of really knowing until you do it.
 
TheMarco
To me this feature only makes sense if there's some sort of indicator of the shape in which your car is. Right now it's all just guessing which makes it an annoying feature to me. There's no way to get any kind of report on the status of the chassis or any other parts of the car so who knows when we need oil changes, engine rebuilds, new tires etc?
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Checking on oil changes is easy. All you have to do is look at the color of the oil. Yellow / orange, and you're good. Brownish yellow, time to replace.
 

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