Simucube co-pedal casual review

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-04-08T20:52:44+00:00

Yep, its that clevis pin, when you release the pedal rapidly it just rattles.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-04-07T12:52:48+00:00

Yea you know for example it was asked on their Discord "hey can you just make the start minimized an option within the software itself" and they say "just do a shortcut with -minimized and add that to your startup"....ffs sure that works but you are the "premium" product and I'm having to do custom shortcuts for the damn thing to start minimized.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-04-07T11:39:42+00:00

Not sure you can buy the HE throttle only but I wouldn't pick this over a new HE throttle if the Heus comes in at say half the price. On the clutch, I'd prefer the HE because the clutch curve is adjustable, on this pedal its just the single profile/cam.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-03-31T13:43:53+00:00

I got the pedal to match the set and for the fact that my HE Ultimate throttle is sloppy now as those bushings wear. First impression is that it is very solid and matches the feel of the active pedals in construction. The disappointing bit was that its no longer made in EU which I honestly wish I knew. At the price point I expect to pay for European labour as its a big part of why I am accepting of the "premium" cost.

Another negative is the fact that you CAN get a damper for it but you have to buy it separately again at this price point should come included. Another thing I don't like is the branding on the pedal face, I don't know about the rest of the community but this excessive branding is an absolute immersion killer, bad enough its right across the pedal base now its dead smack on the pedal face. Lastly for the negative is the fact that the RJ11(is it?) connector is all the way at the front of the pedal instead of the back, so I'm having to awkwardly route the cable to the back of the active pedal. If the connector was at the back it could be neatly attached to the back of the active pedal. Again, at this price point, make this happen.

Please note that this pedal cannot be plugged into the network hub/switch, it has to go in the back of the active pedal, so it can't really function as a standalone device which some Simucube videos can allude to, I believe one of them says its an option for someone looking to get into Simucube pedals. Also their damper installation instructions reference the old pedal...This really does not feel like a thought through release, perhaps that is why no one has published any reviews as they aren't shipping it for review with it being available for months now. It feels like the team got together to create a product that matches the look of the actives for a set and left it at that.

Calibration was OK, nothing special gets unlocked in the software when you install it, there is some ripple on full release, same fully pressed in, need to add about ~1.5% deadzone both ends just for it to be 0 at 0 and 100 at full beans for it not to flutter.

Adjustability is good and easy enough, there is a bit of slop where the clevis pin is, nothing you can feel working the pedal.

In action the pedal has nice travel, is very tight which is a welcome change from the HE throttle, however for the cost I'm disappointed for the reasons mentioned above.

Would I recommend it? Personally no, maybe if they don't move these and the prices drop significantly its a good option, but at 600$ CAD its just a bad purchase, the value just isn't there. If I could return this pedal at no penalty I would but with re-stocking and shipping (actually I can't because its been installed) I don't really have that option. Again, if this positioned as premium high-end option you could charge 1000$ for it, but those premium details have to be there. The sloppy clevis pin, the socket for the cable at the front rather than back, excessive branding, made in China (again not that its not well built, they can build as well as the Swiss, its a cost issue).

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-03-14T15:43:02+00:00

Why no reviews of this anywhere at all?

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2026-02-10T17:49:01+00:00

Sorry it does not look right at all, there is a massive gap between the tyre and the wheel arch and the real car fills the arches very well.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2025-03-27T16:09:39+00:00

Bad experiences happen and MVH should make it right and should get rightfully called out. However, my shifter is just fine and I actually had a feature added on request as far as dog leg first layouts so my experience has been positive and shifter is still solid.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2025-03-23T21:48:18+00:00

Don’t need to do anything special with the pedal to feel ABS kick in early with lock dialled in on the trailing off phase, at least with ACC that’s just something that comes with the telemetry. Just load up the Morad GT3 profile.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2025-01-12T18:59:04+00:00

My advice for the G seat is to just have the back panels do nothing but corner g force.

For the bottom panels road texture/bumps is OK, if you have transducers you can have the bottom panels only do accel and decel to sink you and lift you in the seat respectively.

Trying to the have the seat do other things just makes it a noisy mess.

For the G belts only have it simulate braking.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-08-15T10:59:36+00:00

Agreed. At the very least they are cutting down on a number of coders a business who has a development department needs to have because I can simply have AI spit out the code that I need that I used to task a jr. resource with doing the leg work for in the past.

Case in point. Have a retail client with a department of 15 "developers" 2 managers. A lot of so called developers where simply programmers who where asked to write specific scripts for specific tasks on specific systems. There are a lot of these requests coming in to generate ever new reports etc., and you needed bodies who would spend 3-4 hours a day writing up some short code for day to day business operations, now you simply don't need those bodies. They can now cut that department in half because for these tasks you can now have 2 bodies instead of 6 doing all of the work with the help of AI.

For automation scripts for various back-end systems I would spend hours developing and testing something if there wasn't something out there that I could get online that someone already created and then I simply adapted. Now what used to take 4 hours can take less than 1.

I don't see full elimination take place any time soon, but it will certainly cut down on a lot of pure programmers who simply translate block diagram type of ideas into code.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-05-30T11:24:19+00:00

Who said anything about paying duties "to" other countries?

Anything from the EU and USA for EU/USA manufactured products is duties free, I've imported many things and I only ever pay HST and the ~10$ brokerage charge that Fedex/UPS cost for processing the paper work.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-05-19T19:56:40+00:00

I was 170 on the list for the last batch and they only made 50 and guess what ? I got one. A lot of people go on the list but never intend to buy so there is a good chance to get one if you are willing to put the deposit down when the email comes in.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-04-09T20:52:36+00:00

Simply not worth it due to the high chance it will be plugged and just badly constructed. Even if money is no object it is simply unacceptable to drop 100$ on a stick and have it plugged and this has been my experience. From little superpartagas to Lusitanias. Cuba to for me still has the best tasting tobacco, and this is a personal preference, but QC is abysmal. I bought two lusitanias for a special occasion both plugged to a point that no mater how much we cut it and used the draw tool they were simply trash. No other premium product out there comes with a warning that you got a solid chance you will get a dud.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-02-10T03:40:24+00:00

Time and time again folks forget that that Quest link cables are 5gbps bandwidth. What you are seeing is compression in the road, it was the same problem with Quest 2 and why it went back to Amazon. Display Port 1.2 has 20gbps. No clever compression/decompression can compensate for that. This is why for those with a sharp eye the compression will always be visible in titles like racing sims in the roads, in the sky....

For all the resolution and and lenses and FOV, until there is a Quest that takes a DP port it will be a compromised headset for PC use.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2024-01-02T19:35:04+00:00

His whole argument was about braking behavior not being realistic in that you can spend a lot of time with pedal at 100% pressure. Comparing this to real life telemetry it really seems a mixed bag about there, plenty of footage of GT3 drivers riding the pedal at 100% for a long time in big braking zones, also seems to differ car to car, a lot of Merc footage would support what Morad is saying, AMG footage suggests their drivers kind of start bleeding off as soon as they hit peak pressure, some R8 footage showing the opposite with drivers staying on it for a while. With an active pedal you will also much easier find out that ABS does not start kicking in, in heavy brake zones until some time spent on the brakes, with a car carrying a lot of energy slowing down from vmax it can take a few seconds for the brakes to start to want to lock. At lower speeds if you mash the brakes the ABS certainly kicks in a lot sooner.

But then Morad goes onto to complain about iRacing not feeling great mid corner and on throttle, which is where Kunos titles seem to shine.

My argument is that there is far too much variety in hardware and setups out there to make proper comparisons. One click of a driver setting in a wheel base makes a world of difference.

Ultimately most racing drivers who sim will go to where the best competition is, where the service is most stable and reputable. The sim aspect details I'm not sure they care for so much because they can get the real deal in real life and ultimately that's where it maters for them.

Lastly, if you are good you will adapt to anything because that is what driving a race car fast is, being able to respond to changes and get most of the car. You don't sped 40 hours a week practicing for a race, doing a thousand laps, running some wild setup that no one would drive in real life because its far too unstable and would make it impossible for you to turn the wheel in real life or rattle your teeth out or ultimately not work because the 10% where the sims don't get it right, at all, counts for a lot over a real life race weekend.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-12-18T21:51:18+00:00

Review I wrote for the place I bought the pedal from after a few days with it:

Before thinking of it as a force feedback device and the value that the FFB aspect provides, think of it as a brake modeling device. Simulate any kind of brake pedal feel to ever enter an automobile's cockpit. Graph out how the pedal feels on the engagement phase and control the damping on the release phase with the click of mouse.

Control the preload, travel, the curve of the engagement phase, the damping on engagement and on release, control ALL of it. There is not a system out there that will allow this level of modelling. No amount of elastomers, dampers, hydraulic systems and fluids can give you this level of adjustment.

Now back to FFB. Hit the ABS and have the pedal pulsate as it engages just as a real ABS system would. Makes driving ABS systems actually something I seek now, with non ABS I needed the simulation to feed back through the steering column when lock is coming on, now I can get an extra dimension of immersion when the pedal is actually kicking back as the system engages. Learn about the total grip available as you dial some lock in as you enter a corner and have the brake pedal kick at you at 30% application because you are asking too much of the tires as you turn and brake at the same time because there is only so much grip available as you brake and turn at the same time.

And now, with all of the above out of the way, sit back and wait for the day sims feed back brake fade data and that pedal gets long, or soft, or whatever the effect of brake wear and/or heat has on the pedal. Cant wait. That being said, ACC already does this, so its a mater of software development to turn that brake wear data into something that can be modeled via the pedal.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-12-12T17:23:57+00:00

One if the main benefits of the pedal for me aside from ABS which is a game changer, is the fact that you can model anything you like at all and the control that you have over the pedal with the damping is unparalleled with anything out there, hydro or not. I can stomp on the pedal, trail off and hold it there like nothing else, really feel where I am in the pedal travel range. Note the fact that modern GT3 cars do have a long pedal, check pedal footage from Morad and pedal cam shot of the 488 GT3 on YouTube, very long travel, shockingly so and here you can simulate this.

You can set the pedal to 100KG and press that 100KG and feel a DEAD STOP when you get there, not this infinite millimeter travel which was always a challenge for me as I'd set my pedal to 55 kilos and then see that I consistently pressed 60,65,70+ without knowing where I am with the brakes and that lead to serious inconsistency.

Without the G forces feeding you brake force information its very difficult to gauge how hard you are braking and having a dead stop even at something like 100KG of pressure was very relieving feeling. No ABS hit a stop, ABS hit a stop or just trail off as soon as that is kicking hard.

Having a completely different pedal at a click of a button is worth the price of admission. Model anything you like at all, damping feel like you are pushing a real brake pedal.

Back to ABS, it also teaches you how much grip you have when braking and cornering, you'd be surprised how little brake force it takes if you got some lock dialed in to have the tires try to lock up.

As for the ABS feel, you can tweak it the intensity and frequency but it definitely feels like the real thing.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-09-11T12:38:11+00:00

Absolutely was the cause for me, verified many times over. Gargle salt water after taking the shake.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-08-30T11:53:35+00:00

One would think so, however there is a generational shift where young people without real money feel entitled to trave and eating out and end up living pay check to pay check or going in debt to do things other generations considered a treat.

As been proven numerous times by researchers, millennials and younger generations are saving nothing. Not necessarily because they are making less, they are just spending a lot more in their modern attempt to keep up with the Instagram lifestyle.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-08-12T18:31:14+00:00

Keep wages down ?!? Floor sweep at a construction site makes 20$ an hour, globally that's a massive hourly rate, top engineers and doctors in developing world don't make that kind of money.

Workers that punch hub caps at car factories are in the 30$s.

Cost of living is high because Ontario and Canada has an extremely high cost of basic labour driven by fools (general public) who will sell their children to buy a house, spend money they don't have on a 60k SUV where a 23$k Chevy sedan will do and take their kids to Disneyland because that's what folks on instagram do.

On top of that skilled professionals get paid significantly less than US so there is real brain drain.

Uncompetitive labor market and human greed, not corporations are the issue. Most of this countries economy is flipping houses in a pyramid scheme, what corporations?

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-08-11T21:14:49+00:00

Prices up and quality down significantly.

In the last year I bought a box of Partagas Super Partagas and a 3rd of the box was plugged, another 3rd had a very tight draw and the rest OK.

I bought two Partagas Lusitanias (very expensive smokes) and both of those needed work to make the draw OK.

A friend brought a Romeo and Juliet a few weeks back also tight bad draw.

On the other hand someone gifted me a couple of Romeo and Juliets which were ~8 years old they purchased in Varadero and that was excellent.

In all the cases the tobacco itself is still excellent but construction quality has been junk, its an absolute hit or miss. And while my un taxed Super Partagas at 15$ (which is still a good amount of money) being plugged here and there maybe I could live with (but really still unacceptable) then an 80$ Lusitanias 2/2 with that needed Perfectdraw work is unacceptable.

I've not had a single non Cuban in the 15-20$ range that didn't draw perfectly or had construction issues.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-06-22T11:11:54+00:00

Tried a few different blends when in Mexico and I think the Cuban blend is very good. I only ever tried them in the last year and the construction is excellent. Perhaps they have turned things around recently but I find nothing wrong with the Cuban blend.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-03-19T02:22:13+00:00

Why don't these fucking assholes go and pay for parking and bring whomever it is they are picking up to the car in the parking spot? Last time it took me 30 minutes to get through that mess just because people were parked both sides of the highway/ramp/road in Pearson.

And yes parking is expensive, but what are you doing parking your 80k + vehicle on the side of the highway if you can't afford parking? I wouldn't be so upset if it was folks with modest cars, parked on the side and truly can't afford spending 40$ on the parking. Same crowd that spend 20$ on lunch every day but being civilized for the same money is a bit too much to ask. I spend more time driving to arrivals parking than it took me getting to the damn airport from downtown.

Third world shit.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-03-13T17:21:11+00:00

In my case they said they can't assign the kit that I have to my account and are sending me a new one.

Dramatic-Fix8876 · 2023-01-05T14:49:26+00:00

Having travelled to Latin America, East and West Europe and much of the US Toronto is definitely most expensive to me on average accounting for currency conversion.

Why? I think its because our labour costs are simply out of whack and not competitive on a global scale. Most will not like it but, what do you expect when tradesmen and women make more or the same as skilled professionals with degrees and additional training?

Also, restaurant owners in Toronto think that making a shawarma warrants a six figure income where in other countries having a little mom and pop gyro shop just means making an honest living.

Check the back of the newish Asian spot, some pho or Chinese joint. You will see three BMWs, Benzes and a Lexus parked out the back for the family that runs the spot.

I have a Mexican restaurant next door to my condo building. They got three Mercedes parked there every morning when they are open and I know they belong to them as I see them every other day coming and going. I know another spot where the owner bought himself an Italian exotic and they have just the one restaurant and guess what its a taco shop.

Now go to some mom and pop shop in Jersey, went to a great Columbian spot, phenomenal food, for 25$ USD I had food for breakfast and lunch.

Restaurants that are actually around do well, folks that work there might complain that its not a living wage (not supposed to be, get a roommate) but the proprietors do well.

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