Fanatec acquired by Corsair

[Jezza819]

The installation is quite straight forward, both base side and wheel side. Work slowly and follow the steps. A simple torque wrench is useful and you can find them for not much on Amazon

Or you could find a tech at a local phone repair shop to help. Its a pretty quick installation

Yeah but having to do the electrical disconnect on the base then DO NOT LET GO OF THE CONNECTOR!!! or it will go back down into the base, then twisting it around to go back into the base, all of that scares the hell out of me. And if you have two wheel rims you have to put a wheel side on each one?

 

[ANDRITSOULAS]

I was wondering the other day what might have happened to TJ. Has anyone here heard any news of him since the final acquisition?
Any statements ?

 

[PJTierney]

Yeah but having to do the electrical disconnect on the base then DO NOT LET GO OF THE CONNECTOR!!! or it will go back down into the base, then twisting it around to go back into the base, all of that scares the hell out of me. And if you have two wheel rims you have to put a wheel side on each one?

You need a QR for every wheel, and a QR shaft for the base.

Installing the shaft is a little tricky, but only needs to be done once.

 

[Jezza819]

You need a QR for every wheel, and a QR shaft for the base.

Installing the shaft is a little tricky, but only needs to be done once.

Yeah I don't think it's worth all of that trouble.

 

[xDriver69x]

It's super easy and totally worth it, at least for this girl. 🤷‍♀️

 

[Jezza819]

It's super easy and totally worth it, at least for this girl. 🤷‍♀️

What difference can you tell?

 

[xDriver69x]

What difference can you tell?

Difference? to what? I have only used QR2, but have hundreds of good use with it across many sims, it's as rock solid as my IRL cars and it allows me to switch wheels in about a second, and my time is very valuable, I can't potentially lose a race because the pit stop took too long.

 

[Jezza819]

Difference? to what? I have only used QR2, but have hundreds of good use with it across many sims, it's as rock solid as my IRL cars and it allows me to switch wheels in about a second, and my time is very valuable, I can't potentially lose a race because the pit stop took too long.

Ok so you started with the QR2. I thought you might have upgraded.

 

[xDriver69x]

Ok so you started with the QR2. I thought you might have upgraded.

I just had to switch my QR1 on my DD2 to QR2. wasn't going to waste my time with QR1

 

[timekiller001]

QR1 was suffering from the fairly big tolerances so a lot of them slipped a bit on the shaft while turning. I always had to use the lock screw to avoid that. And with that it's no longer a Quick release. If you are not having that issues then it should be fine to stay.
If you have multiple rims so you'd need to upgrade multiple to QR2 then it most likely wouldn't make any sense financially.

 

[Jezza819]

QR1 was suffering from the fairly big tolerances so a lot of them slipped a bit on the shaft while turning. I always had to use the lock screw to avoid that. And with that it's no longer a Quick release. If you are not having that issues then it should be fine to stay.
If you have multiple rims so you'd need to upgrade multiple to QR2 then it most likely wouldn't make any sense financially.

As of now I just have the Formula V2.5 and a Universal Hub. Lately I've been hearing more snapping and popping from the V2 but I don't know if it's normal or I'm paying more attention to it after hearing that's one of the reasons to switch to QR2.

 

[xDriver69x]

As of now I just have the Formula V2.5 and a Universal Hub. Lately I've been hearing more snapping and popping from the V2 but I don't know if it's normal or I'm paying more attention to it after hearing that's one of the reasons to switch to QR2.

You shouldn't have any sounds, certainly not snapping or popping! You should narrow down what that's from and make sure you don't have some loose screws. I mostly use my V2.5X and it's silent and I use an aliexpress square red QR2 on that one.