Need some help clearing list

[ZedClampet]

One of the things that is showing up as incomplete is Brake Disc Ventilated, but both of them are in the green. One is 80 percent and the other one is brand new. What am I missing?

[ZedClampet]

Had the same problem with rubber bushing. I ended up replacing the stuff that wasn't at 100 percent and it worked, but I don't understand why I had to replace them.

[Teddy_lebt]

The color coding works independent from job orders, "green" doesn't mean "good enough for the job at hand". The colors are just a visual representation of the overall condition of the part. Green starts at 80% but if that's good enough depends on the job you're currently doing. You can check, what condition is needed in the car-overview-window and it might be above 80% or way below it. I've had jobs as low as 31%, so I could use parts that were dark orange.

Overall, if you only have parts on you, that are above the minimum threshold, you should be good to go. It's a little bit different with the story orders, because here the replacement parts all have to be at 100%, so brand new or completely repaired, while the rest of the car can be below that.

[ZedClampet]

Thanks. That makes sense now.

[ttower]

The game does not check/keep track of which parts go where. For a lot of repair orders, you are required to replace parts with 100% condition new parts. If you only need to replace one brake rotor, but you take both off, you NEED to make sure the 100% rotor is put back on where the broken rotor was. The 80% rotor that did not need to be replaced, cannot be put on the side the broken one was from, because it is not a 100% replacement for the broken rotor. It does not matter that you replaced the bad rotor with a new one, the replacement part must also be in the same spot as the replacement was needed.

This is the same with any parts, including bushings, exhaust, tires/rims, spark plugs, etc. If you have this problem again, for example, with the front brake rotors, try switching them. It will 99% of the time fix the issue.

[Teddy_lebt]

Originally posted by ttower:

The game does not check/keep track of which parts go where. For a lot of repair orders, you are required to replace parts with 100% condition new parts. If you only need to replace one brake rotor, but you take both off, you NEED to make sure the 100% rotor is put back on where the broken rotor was. The 80% rotor that did not need to be replaced, cannot be put on the side the broken one was from, because it is not a 100% replacement for the broken rotor. (...)

That's only true for the 42 story orders.
In normal job orders you have some minimum threshold for the replacement parts and you can be quite sure, that only the parts that need replacement are under said threshold. So you can mix and match the parts around without trouble, because as I wrote above, you have only parts on you, that are above the minimum requirement.

That's different when you work on story orders (and only story orders!), because the replacement parts need to be at 100% condition, while the rest can (and will) be below that. The underlying game mechanic is the same though!
The game checks, if the replaced part has the minimum condition, which in this case is 100%. So of course you can't put some other parts of the car there. It's as simple as that.

So when doing story orders it's a valid strategy to buy more parts than actually necessary and change all the spark plugs, the brake calipers, brake discs or whatever needs to be changed, just to be sure you're not flipping them. Or you can memorize the exact spots, where the faulty parts are or even use that little star-button in the parts list to mark the spots on the car. But if there are a lot of parts to change, i find it to be confusing when nearly everything on the car has a blue outline. ;)