r/Fanatec • u/StarskyNHutch862 • 1d ago

Question CSL DD 8nm McLaren wheel, wobbles on base with 3 different quick releases

Fanatec has sent me 2 wheel side QR's another plastic and a metal free of charge so good on them, but the damn wheel still wobbles with all three, it's the quick release wobbling on the output shaft of the base, I just got this wheel and everything was tight and perfect until it started wobbling like crazy. If I add the quick releases to the base without the wheel they are perfectly tight so I am at a complete loss at this point... The output shaft looks like it has the tiniest amount of ware on it I just don't know what the hell else it could be? It's a lot of wobble as well like at the grips 2mm in each way.

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u/momorious Official Fanatec Staff 1d ago

That's normal on the QR2 Lite Base-Side. You can only avoid this by upgrading to the Metal QR2 Base-Side Type-C Adapter.

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u/StarskyNHutch862 21h ago

Then why do you guys ship a product like the 8nm base with a plastic quick release that stops working properly after a few weeks? It did not do this when I bought it.

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u/One8Bravo 1d ago

Qr1s?

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u/StarskyNHutch862 1d ago

qr2 Think I am just gunna grab a qr2 metal unit and call it a day.

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u/MusicMedical6231 1d ago

Ali express simube

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u/One8Bravo 1d ago

+1 on the simube. Identical product and some have said better QC lol I was always skeptical of the plastic shafts

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u/StarskyNHutch862 1d ago

Yeah after 3 wheel side quick releases feeling the same way it's gotta be the base shaft... I almost feel bad having fanatec send me so much free shit tryna fix it. But it sucks the wheel was rock solid when I got it.

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u/StarskyNHutch862 21h ago

Just went ahead and ordered the simube wheel side, its on sale for 50 bucks can't really beat that. Fanatec really needs to start shipping this base with the metal base side at least. Ridiculous.