Broken Thrustmaster Shifter! Help!

Has anyone had their T1 shifter go bad? In the middle of a race last night I got stuck in 5th gear. Can the shifter be repaired? I've heard plenty about the T1's pedal springs, but I've never seen anything on the shifter. I haven't opened the thing up yet so I don't know exactly what I'll be dealing with. Thanx for any input. =============================================================================== Mark A. Woyna | Section Manager - Information Systems | "No free man shall ever be debarred Advanced Computer Applications Group | the use of arms. The strongest Decision & Information Sciences Division | reason for the people to retain the Argonne National Laboratory | right to keep and bear arms is, Argonne IL 60439 | as a last resort, to protect | themselves against tyranny in | ===============================================================================

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> Has anyone had their T1 shifter go bad? In the middle of a > race last night I got stuck in 5th gear. Can the shifter be > repaired? I've heard plenty about the T1's pedal springs, but > I've never seen anything on the shifter. I haven't opened the > thing up yet so I don't know exactly what I'll be dealing with. > Thanx for any input.

I did also have some problems with the shifter. I own a T2 though. I encountered 2 probs when I opened the shifter. First of all the *** to re-center the shifter was broken. I replaced it with an ordinary elastic *** wire ( sorry, I don't know the correct English word ). Secondly, one of the wires attached to the up-shift switch got tangled and had worn off its plastic. The worn off bit touched the switch and made a short circuit so it was inpossible to shift down because it would shift up again immediately. I just had to untangle the wire and all probs were gone. Hope that you can use this info for the T1 , Frank

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>> Has anyone had their T1 shifter go bad? In the middle of a >> race last night I got stuck in 5th gear. Can the shifter be >> repaired? I've heard plenty about the T1's pedal springs, but >> I've never seen anything on the shifter. I haven't opened the >> thing up yet so I don't know exactly what I'll be dealing with. >> Thanx for any input. >I did also have some problems with the shifter. I own a T2 though. >I encountered 2 probs when I opened the shifter. >First of all the *** to re-center the shifter was broken. I >replaced it with an ordinary elastic *** wire ( sorry, I don't >know the correct English word ). >Secondly, one of the wires attached to the up-shift switch got >tangled and had worn off its plastic. The worn off bit touched the >switch and made a short circuit so it was inpossible to shift >down because it would shift up again immediately. >I just had to untangle the wire and all probs were gone. >Hope that you can use this info for the T1 , >Frank

Have you folks contacted Thrustmaster? I think their customer support is excellent! Between multiple requests for pedal springs on my T1 and bad pots on my FCS they have shipped out repair parts (ok, I'm technically inclined and can fix these (relatively) simple things myself) quickly and without charging me a cent! Check out their web page: [link lost in import] They're not bugs! They're random features!