How many of you have been driving with your Thrustmaster T2 steering
wheel and pedals and have a spring in the brake or throttle bust,
effectively putting your sim racing on hold till the good boys at
THRUSTMASTER can send replacements?? (that is assuming, of course that
they send anything at all!)
Well, it happpened to me yesterday, as the throttle spring broke with
about 4 laps remaining in my GP2 race (I was leading incidentally, prior
to the failure, so at least I know how DAMON HILL must feel, but that's
another story!). I figured, to hell with this crap, I wanna race, so I
did some brainstorming and came up this this quickfix which completely
repaired the problem, didn't take long, requires NO modifications, you
don't have to take the thing apart, was cheap to do, is VERY reliable,
doesn't in any way interfere with your driving style/foot positions, and
seems better than the original design!
What you do is as follows: (I am describing the fix I did on the
THROTTLE, but it is the same on the BRAKE as well)
-- If you look behind the actual PEDAL itself, (which is mounted on
another spring-loaded gimbal) and look at the metal arm coming out of
the base section to which the pedal is attached, you will notice a hole
in the metal arm, directly behind the bolt holding the actual pedal on.
In this hole is one end of the pedal-gimbal spring(the hole is used to
anchor one end of this spring). This hole is the key to the repair job.
-- Get a long, thin, elastic string/bungee cord. It should be cut so
that it is not a loop (elastic band) but rather a length of cord.
-- Tie a knot in one end of the cord and place a washer against the
knot. Feed the other end of the cord through this hole (the size of the
hole determines the thickness of the cord to use!) and pull it until the
washer/knot at the other end is preventing the cord from being pulled
through any further.
-- Pull the elastic cord towards the front of the base (towards where
you would rest your heels while driving) and loop it around the front of
the base, pulling it back towards the pedal system by running it
UNDERNEATH the base unit (the cord should now encircle the base unit,
with one end attached to the hole in the pedal arm).
-- take the free end, which is now looped around and is back by the
throttle pedal, and loop it around again tightly, pulling it between the
brake and throttle.
-- Tie the free end off on the cord part which is looping around (do NOT
tie the cord off in the hole where the first section is tied into), and
voila! you have a fully operational Throttle again!! Depending on the
tension you place on the bungee, you can control the pedal pressure
needed to use the pedal!!
I know his sounds a little difficult to understand, and if you like, I
can post photos of exactly what I did, as that may be easier to
understand.
I hope it works for you as well as it did for me!
Are you sure you're not Mcgyver?
>How many of you have been driving with your Thrustmaster T2 steering
>wheel and pedals and have a spring in the brake or throttle bust,
>effectively putting your sim racing on hold till the good boys at
>THRUSTMASTER can send replacements?? (that is assuming, of course that
>they send anything at all!)
I have found Thrustmaster to be VERY responsive. They actually sent me
a set of brake/gas springs (at my e-mail request) just in case mine
broke. Now that is customer service.
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>>How many of you have been driving with your Thrustmaster T2 steering >>wheel and pedals and have a spring in the brake or throttle bust, >>effectively putting your sim racing on hold till the good boys at >>THRUSTMASTER can send replacements?? (that is assuming, of course that >>they send anything at all!) >I have found Thrustmaster to be VERY responsive. They actually sent me >a set of brake/gas springs (at my e-mail request) just in case mine >broke. Now that is customer service. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This space intentionally left blank: I think it's hit and miss with them. The FIRST time a spring broke, I
: called them and had a new one withing a few days. THIS time, I emailed
: them. Took them a week to answer but the said they'd send replacements
: right away. Let's see....that was 3 weeks ago and I'm on their side of
: the country.....hmmmmm.
: My point still remains we shouldn't have to do this in the first
: place. Cracking the thing open every few months gets really annoying.
I would recommend contacting them again. They may have lost your
request in the shuffle. I understand that there was a backlog as they
attempted to get out the "new & improved" springs.
Ever since I limited the travel of my pedals, I haven't had a spring
break. That's in 2-1/2 years or more of use.
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**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.
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Hi,
I've had my T2 since december and my accelerator spring has broken
twice allready! (I must be putting the miles to it!). Luckly I have
some springs lying around so I can fix it. I wonder if a coil type
spring would work better?
John
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"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."
