There is no damage repair bill!! Read post #1

[GOTMAXPOWER]

My Veyron has a chassis repair bill of 500,000 so I won't fix it.

 

[imaweirdo]

For some reason my Civic still looks fine after its been smashed after dozens of races.

 

[TiZzla]

My Veyron has a chassis repair bill of 500,000 so I won't fix it.

Have you noticed any mechanical damage? Does the car handle differently or anything?

 

[sideslider]

it's spendy to be a drifter!!

 

[DTS]

Has anyone actually felt an effect of this 'damage'?

If I had not read this thread I would have no idea of the chassis damage, and have not felt any difference in my cars although some have extreme amounts for repairs.

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

Have you noticed any mechanical damage? Does the car handle differently or anything?

I don't really know because the only big crash I can remember was on the first lap I drove it so I have no way of knowing ,it handles badly but I guess thats just because it's a Veyron.

 

[absjazz]

Has anyone actually felt an effect of this 'damage'?

If I had not read this thread I would have no idea of the chassis damage, and have not felt any difference in my cars although some have extreme amounts for repairs.

This is exactly my thought as well. I haven't actually checked my Civic Type R's bill yet, but as far as I can tell it drives just as well as it did from the first second. Something tells me this whole "chassis refresh" bill isn't quite right.

Also, I notice a lot of people bringing this issue up are using used cars. It could be a possibility that the chassis damage is a result of "mileage" and age. Anyone with a brand new car have a high repair bill? I'd check my Civic but I shut down the PS3 and I'm heading to bed. Long, fun day haha.

 

[robisme]

I like the idea of paying for damage , drive like an idiot = pay the price, good idea

 

[bobeth]

Bought a 458 Italia, cpu rammed me from behind ONCE, I owe 146 000 credits? Yay!

 

[Spagetti69]

Why pay anything if it don't affect you?
Where can you see your repair bill. I haven't put much time in yet.

Thanks.

 

[tecknical]

Bought a 458 Italia, cpu rammed me from behind ONCE, I owe 146 000 credits? Yay!

word, except the cpu gave me a dang P.I.T. maneuver and sent me into the wall in my gallardo. 220k chassis bill. yikes might as well buy a new one

Why pay anything if it don't affect you?
Where can you see your repair bill. I haven't put much time in yet.

Thanks.

same place you paint and wash your car.

 

[CloneHead]

Still doesn't make sense that we get a bill for damage, yet aren't able to experience any mechanical problems when driving.

I don't have GT5 yet, so forgive me for being stupid, but if there's no mechanical problems, why should we bother repairing?

 

[bobeth]

But then why get a bill if it makes no difference?

 

[iLex]

I vote for fixing this one.
Paying for damage is cool, but these prices are insane!
They might want to fix it in the patch that brings us mechanical damage

 

[tecknical]

i vote for no chassis damage until it affects the car's handling and mechanics. visuals too

 

[Spagetti69]

But then why get a bill if it makes no difference?

Seems like a half finished feature.
The damage is different from the public demos as far as I can gather.
The expense bill was supposed to go hand in hand with that.
PD have toned down the damage but left the expenses in.

That's all I can make of it.

 

[minihulkster]

It seems as though PD needs to patch in mechanical damage and adjust the costs for repair bills.

 

[MAidioPT]

this feature is good , for only noobs. no more raaaaaam cars ! thahaha Noobs Owned !

 

[Rey-FD]

Cost should be in the range of the initial cost of the car itself plus a percentage of the cost of the aftermarket parts you have installed on the car (depending on how long the part has been installed since the damage)

On another note, what have you guys been doing to total up $200,000+ fees?

 

[tecknical]

Cost should be in the range of the initial cost of the car itself plus a percentage of the cost of the aftermarket parts you have installed on the car (depending on how long the part has been installed since the damage)

On another note, what have you guys been doing to total up $200,000+ fees?

mostly getting rammed by the cpu

 

[Anes]

These horror stories are quite amusing

 

[Arwin]

Good to know! A little bit too realistic almost - there doesn't have to happen much to a car before you damage it to the extent where you're better off scrapping the car and buying a new one. Chassis damage is definitely one of those that becomes too expensive to fix very quickly. (Note that I know all these things from owning my first real life car ... )

Next patch will probably add an insurance option which gets more expensive as you crash more ...

More seriously though, I think that yes, the user should be warned about this. (I think the first thing I'm going to do when I come home is read the online manual from within the game from back to front ... )

 

[dj4monie]

Sure but a bill of $400k + is not realistic. I'm happy they have included a consequence for crashing but they should at least tell us!

The worst thing is the car gets cosmetically fixed for free. If you had $400k worth of damage to the body underneath im pretty sure you would notice from the outside.

You must not watch REAL racing very much do you?



You wreck it, you pay and I have never shunted a car really bad in GT.

 

[Anes]

I've found a loophole, if you wreck your car, restrart the race then exit. No repair bill

 

[Organ-Donor]

I've found a loophole, if you wreck your car, restrart the race then exit. No repair bill

The loophole is the damage doesn't effect the car behavior, no need to repair.

 

[mr_serious]

I have tested this. I had a brand new VITZ U Euro sport - trophy car. No repair bill.

Took it into the vitz race and launched it at the other cars & walls etc... for 5 minutes or so. Now the repair bill is 9,500cr

I also had a brand new McLaren F1 (amazon gift download) and accidentally crashed that a couple of times last night - 500cr.

So it definitely isn't people just not noticing their used car needs this before they race it.

 

[Anes]

That we know of anyway

 

[Willbo87]

I've found a loophole, if you wreck your car, restrart the race then exit. No repair bill

You can do that in single races, but not in a championship as you get 0 points.

Thanks to the OP for the heads up, I crashed my Evo a few times last night after trying to tune it. Now I'm at work thinking about the repair bill! lol!

 

[kartman21]

did you notice some change with damaged car body ? I own a ferrari italia with damaged body and I don't feel differences.

In a other hand, for engine damages, I fell it ! transmition problems, loss of power...

Keep me in touch, I don't want to spent 500 000 cc for repair things that don't need to....

 

[Willbo87]

Has anybody tried to sell their car instead of paying the bill and buy the same car again? I know it won't work with my Evo as i've added nearly 60,000cr worth of upgrades to it, which will be lost with the car if I sell it.

I'll really have to sort out that understeer now! And the damage!!