Trustmaster T500RS worth a buy?

[[TC] Stephen]

I had one, worked fine for the first year and a half. One day it began to not register in windows as 't500rs' or some variation of that, instead it registered as a 'thrustmaster ffb wheel' which didn't sound right. At first I could get around this problem by restarting my pc and trying a different usb port and it would show up as the correct wheel, but after a few hours it would do the same thing. Once I got sick of this I got it to recognise properly to do a firmware update and it got to about 75% and failed because the power was lost somehow (the power was still in, usb was in as well) and so that bricked it. And of course that happened a week after the warranty ran out.

The pedals weren't that much better either, with the clutch spring breaking after just over a year of use and those springs are impossible to find, so I had no clutch, it was on 30% all the time if I used it.

The close to $700 I spent on it (and the $280 I could have spent instead on a G27) I find this rather poor for the money with all the issues I had with mine, build quality isn't as good as I thought it would be. So I've now got a $700 paperweight that lives in the garage now, I probably could fix it if I found a new mainboard for it, since the ROM is now corrupted from the unknown power loss.

That kind of use was the same as my G25 and the only thing that ever went wrong in the 5 years I had it was the pedals spiked because the pots were dirty. I now have a G27 with fanatec CS V2 pedals and the G25 shifter I kept from selling the G25. Looking forward to another 5 years from a logitech wheel