Scrapyard tires and rims - random stupid sizes

[FrozeUp]

Searching through the scrapyard, hoping to find decent, reasonable, 'normal' sizes of tires and rims. All I find are stupid sizes that seem to come from the rear axle of a farm tractor. Ooooooh Developers, can't you get your random randomness working better? Try thinking about this.... Pick a number between 1 and 3. You picked 1 or 2 so you deliver a size of tire/rim between 12 inch and 18 inch. If you picked number 3, you deliver from the whole range of sizes of tire/rims.

[dogwalker1]

Agreed, the rim sizes found in the scrapyard range uniformly from too small to (more often) ridiculously large. For instance I found 25" rims for the Mazda RX7. They really ought to be found primarily in the same size you'd find them on the car in-game, with some variability in a +/- range of 1"-3" at most. (Anyone wanting a more extreme wheel configuration, eg: for ribbon tires, can just buy the rims from the store.)

[Fulysic]

one question do you have unrealistic wheel sizes turned on

also could you post few screen shots so i can pass it on directly

[Jeffdesign]

why buying used tires and rims? buy them new!

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Jeffdesign:

why buying used tires and rims? buy them new!

Used tires indeed I understand...
Now rims... I tend to have a stockplîle way bigger than I will ever make use of lol. Was it usefull ? Definitely not lol.
But sometimes it hurt my feeling less to try a rim to see the look on a single rim I had from junkyard, than buying blindly a full 4 rims set, to see they look awful on the car.

Also on cars I do not keep, as repaired parts are still way cheaper than new one, WHEN YOU PLAY UN-MODDED, money is not as easy if you play the way the game was designed to be played early on that is... So on cars I sell back, it's not unusual that I put 2 different sets of rims on the same car

Now also to OP, know that those big rims on some versions sells for a decent amount once back @100%. So usually I buy the big boys (the black versions for instance) for selling back.

[FrozeUp]

Originally posted by Fulysic:

one question do you have unrealistic wheel sizes turned on

No. Apart from having Dodge and Jeep DLC - I play vanilla unmodded stock.

Originally posted by Fulysic:

also could you post few screen shots so i can pass it on directly

No. There is no need to provide screenshots, the oversize tyre/rim trend can be observed by the Developers when they spend an hour doing a test run picking up scrap in the scrapyard. Besides, screen shots can be "edited" and cannot be relied on as definitive proof of any fault.

[FrozeUp]

Originally posted by Jeffdesign:

why buying used tires and rims? buy them new!

Speaking for myself, I find it a greater challenge to restore a car using the best used and repaired parts I can find. I just finished a Bandit (recovered from the scrapyard yesterday) and sold it for $50,000 today. Anybody can buy all the parts from the shop, restoring= any car in an hour, selling the car for top price. Restoring from used parts to get best sale price is far more difficult and more fun for me. Perhaps you could try used parts restoration too, you may like it.

[FrozeUp]

Originally posted by BonPadre:

Now also to OP, know that those big rims on some versions sells for a decent amount once back @100%. So usually I buy the big boys (the black versions for instance) for selling back.

Agreed - I sell restored oversize rims and tires too, often recovering the full cost of my scrap runs on just the value of unwanted rims, tires and panels. That can be called a big bonus when you finish with lots of free scrap you can use/repair. Would it be more challenging if these high value rims/tires were more rare so you were forced to do more customer orders to recover your dollars? It gets to a point when you don't have to do customer orders anymore and that phone going beeeep becomes annoying. Can we switch it off or take it off the hook?

Originally posted by BonPadre:

But sometimes it hurt my feeling less to try a rim to see the look on a single rim I had from junkyard, than buying blindly a full 4 rims set, to see they look awful on the car.

Good idea! Thank you! I once put a set of very expensive low profile sports tires and black alloy fine fan rims on a GT20 a few days ago, thinking it would look real swish. Nope! It looked awful! Almost $8,000 wasted! Thank goodness its just a game though.

[FrozeUp]

Fulysic

BTW...

I wasn't meaning to be disrespectful, I did sound a bit rough, I apologise. I know you are offering your help and for that I thank you.

[Fulysic]

no problem i get alot worse than that:)
but i know normally if i submit something to them they want screen shot all good i made some i will see what they say

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Fulysic:

no problem i get alot worse than that:)
but i know normally if i submit something to them they want screen shot all good i made some i will see what they say

where I agree too with OP, when having all those big rims, and you may not necessarly want to put a low profile tire on it for some great look, as in base game, without editing, it's nearely impossible to fit those on existing cars, because we can't adjust the height of the car (through shocks).

Should that action be possible, we then would probably make far better or far oten more use of those big diameter rims.

[katzenjogi]

If you has activated the allowing unrealsitic sizes option, you have to live with the fact, that here are spawning rims which you cannot use.

Also the most players wouldn't restore a car with only used parts - it could be taken days to get the right rims alltogether. Same with the tyres.

And only 50 000 for a bandit? With restoring them to 100% and tuning parts you can scratch nearly the 100 000 barrier.

If you like the way you play, it should be okay with erveryone else, but most of the player want a decent profit for their work.