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A friend of mine has has the Thrustmaster Ferrari Force feedback wheel, and
after about 5 months it shed a throttle spring this past weekend.
Guillimot's great "warranty" service is to ship the whole flipping wheel and
pedal assembly back for repair.(customer pays freight).
 Apparently they told him no parts were available and this was the only
course of action if he wanted the wheel spring fixed.
 Has anyone else have a spring pop on these yet, and if so, did you get the
same line of bull or was this particular phone helperton full of ***?
 As usual, thanks fer listening !

If it is still under warranty tell him to demand a new one!
They won't argue, he'll just have to return the old and in
a few days he'll get a new one!! Good luck :)

| A friend of mine has has the Thrustmaster Ferrari Force feedback wheel,
and
| after about 5 months it shed a throttle spring this past weekend.
| Guillimot's great "warranty" service is to ship the whole flipping wheel
and
| pedal assembly back for repair.(customer pays freight).
|  Apparently they told him no parts were available and this was the only
| course of action if he wanted the wheel spring fixed.
|  Has anyone else have a spring pop on these yet, and if so, did you get
the
| same line of bull or was this particular phone helperton full of ***?
|  As usual, thanks fer listening !
|
|
|

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When Thrustmaster was still Thrustmaster I received several replacement
springs for my units, but they kept on breaking, so, on the advice of a
buddy of mine, I converted my NasPro pedals to bungee return (using cords
from a roof-rack "spiders") and haven't looked back since.

Very simple procedure (voids warranty, but who cares since there are no
longer any springs to break?): drill a hole normal to the stem of the pedal.
Hook in bungee from behind and secure hook with a tie-wrap. Secure other
hook around the front of the base. Finally pull the bungee out the front
hook and tie off at the required resistance. Simple, but effective and
lasting repair (had 'm like this for 3 years myself). Recently added a
squash ball for added resistance near brake EOT, which is an improvement as
backing off to cure a lock-up feels more like reducing pressure than
actually moving one's foot.

Jan.
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"Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn.

i told him to do that at least until he got the springs from t-master, but
we got lazy to engineer it, so he just plugged in the ol' backup Pro
Digital. He works for a race school, so he shoulda bought a TSW or a
"pre-owned" ECCI in the first place, the cheap bastard :)