Car permanently affected by left-right at the garage?

[Admiral OrangeBeard]

Brought my car back from a tier 8 expedition and ever since I got back to the garage it's acting like it's under the effect of the Left-Right anomaly. Radio goes nuts, head lights toggling, etc. Stripping the car down of everything and removing all quirks hasn't fixed the issue, nor has reinstalling the game after a quick uninstall. Any ideas on what I could do to try and solve this (holy) mystery?

[Admiral OrangeBeard]

Edit: tested the following one after the other:

-Took the car out on a regular drive (1 junction) and came back to the garage
-Took the car out on a level 1 expedition and came back to the garage
-Completely stripped the car of all parts (again)
-Drained the full talk 100%
-Removed all gained quirks during this time (5 in total)

Nothing seems to have worked, the car still freaks out like it's sitting in the dead center of a left-right. HOWEVER, the screen inside the car that displays the car panels/doors/accessories health does not flash with the "error" sign, instead just having screen dim slightly and flicker for a few moments. Not sure what is happening but it's admittedly starting to piss me off as I can't have a moment of rest trying to plan my route through the latest expedition while the horn blares in time with the radio going ballistic. It only appears to be affecting this save however, which really sucks because it was my very first save I made back when the game first launched in February of 2024. Any help would be greatly appreciated so I won't potentially have to start all over again!

[Goggles Paesano]

and you don't create a backup save before you leave the garage?

[Admiral OrangeBeard]

Originally posted by Goggles Paesano:

and you don't create a backup save before you leave the garage?

I've never needed to create a backup save before. I preordered the game the week before it launched back in '24 and have had 0 issues with the save system or major issues with the car like this since then.

[Goggles Paesano]

Originally posted by Admiral OrangeBeard:

Originally posted by Goggles Paesano:

and you don't create a backup save before you leave the garage?

I've never needed to create a backup save before. I preordered the game the week before it launched back in '24 and have had 0 issues with the save system or major issues with the car like this since then.

Well, I've only had the game for all of 2 days. And I already knew that since I can create unlimted saves while still at the garage, it would be logical to create a second save prior to leaving the garage as a backup just in case. It takes all of 2 seconds. If you had done that, you would have been able to easily restore from that backup and resume where you were prior to your car getting hosed.

That said, I hope you can find a solution without having to restart.

[Admiral OrangeBeard]

Originally posted by Goggles Paesano:

Originally posted by Admiral OrangeBeard:

I've never needed to create a backup save before. I preordered the game the week before it launched back in '24 and have had 0 issues with the save system or major issues with the car like this since then.

Well, I've only had the game for all of 2 days. And I already knew that since I can create unlimted saves while still at the garage, it would be logical to create a second save prior to leaving the garage as a backup just in case. It takes all of 2 seconds. If you had done that, you would have been able to easily restore from that backup and resume where you were prior to your car getting hosed.

That said, I hope you can find a solution without having to restart.

Sorry, should've specified earlier: All of my saves are used up for different challenge runs (made both before and after the Drive Your Way update launched earlier last year).

[thisserviceismadeoffail]

I straight up copied my save folder from my windows image backup when I reinstalled the older build of the game today after a couple of hours learning everything broken about the new update... Protip - keep an image backup, when something seriously messes up in any game, you can mount yesterday's image file as an explorable drive and copy your old save folder directly across to recover from most kinds of save corruption.

[BΛBES]

omg same
I started to go nuts because of this. Can't listen to music in hub anymore,bruh

[Chaz]

I know you said you took everything - did that include the engine? I'm not sure it'll make any difference just trying to help.

I've had the game awhile as well and never ran into this issue, looks like a new one introduced by the update, report it if you can.

[Admiral OrangeBeard]

Originally posted by Chaz:

I know you said you took everything - did that include the engine? I'm not sure it'll make any difference just trying to help.

I've had the game awhile as well and never ran into this issue, looks like a new one introduced by the update, report it if you can.

No worries. I took everything out including the engine (even removed all stickers and interior cosmetics I had applied to the car) so I really have no idea whats happening. Seems like some others are also reporting it so it might get fixed quickly, we'll just have to see. I also sent a bug report but haven't heard anything back yet.