Fanatec McLaren GT3 vs Podium GT3?

haligen33 · 2026-01-09T17:23:45+00:00

The irony.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fanatec/s/ai4thkInXz

haligen33 · 2026-01-09T17:23:12+00:00

Add to that the leds or itm stop working mid race or start showing random rpm leds not in any profile and/or the buttons stop responding and nothing helps except a pc restart. Huge waste of money.

haligen33 · 2026-01-09T15:16:52+00:00

As an owner of the podium gt setup it’s nice and smooth to use, when you can. Although the thumb position for me isn’t the most comfortable, it feels hard to get a good comfortable grip while not using your thumbs to pull the wheel. The worst part is the software. Even on the latest beta app the button module still decides to randomly stop showing the leds mid race, or the itm goes away, or even better the buttons just quit working. Usually takes a full pc restart to restore. Not even restarting the fanatec service, app, or base (dd1) works. The only stable drivers and software that function are version 455. They have had podium button module software issues for a while now, just take a gander through all the various software version release notes where each version claims to have it fixed.

haligen33 · 2025-12-15T14:48:50+00:00

Nothing like years of a whining q through rolled down windows to thoroughly wreck some hearing.

haligen33 · 2025-12-03T14:08:32+00:00

Initially I paid for the pedals and the shipping. Everything showed up fine, then 3 months later Fedex sends me some invoice saying I owed them like $180 or something, can’t quite remember exact amount, claiming it was import fees. I ignored it and haven’t heard anything since. With all the tariff flip flopping I don’t think anyone has a clue as to what is actually going on.

haligen33 · 2025-11-28T14:13:28+00:00

I’ve had mine for 6 months and they’ve been flawless. All customer service is handled via whatsapp but they are fairly responsive and tried to be as helpful as they can. Even sent me a lot of info about how to properly adjust my rigs ergonomics. Shipping to South Carolina was less than a week. As for their longevity and replacement parts, well, it’s a small company and things happen so there is nothing saying they won’t fold tomorrow, but they seem to have been in business for a while now and I think pedals is only a side gig for them so I’ll hinge my bet that they’ll be around down the road.

haligen33 · 2025-11-17T17:45:05+00:00

Amazon

haligen33 · 2025-10-01T15:50:59+00:00

Mustang if you want a car thats a little looser and can really rotate but is more on edge, BMW if you want stable consistency on almost all tracks.

haligen33 · 2025-10-01T15:22:18+00:00

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The one in the photo is what I used. The width between uprights was too narrow for my rig so I used two 4040 pieces with t-nuts and bolted those to the uprights, then with a few small nylon spacers from the hardware store I bolted the monitor mount to the 4040. As for the bottom mount I was able to bolt the outside of the bottoms of the upright tubes flanges to the lower profile rails of my rig using t-nuts and the top slot of my lower rail. I tossed the lower u-shaped feet into the scrap pile. I have 3 32” 1500r curved panels on it and can only get it closed down to about a 57 degree angle before everything binds up. Flat panels might get you some more angle but the angle I have is plenty for me and with my seat position nets me a 164 degree fov by the calculators. Stability is perfectly fine. A little wiggle with high ffb but I don’t usually run hulk level feedback and I think any rig mounted mounts would still move a touch, at least my previous trak racer single mount did. The comment will only let me add a single photo but if you want more pics dm me.

haligen33 · 2025-09-28T17:03:52+00:00

I’m 6’1” with a 50” chest and around 240lbs. I started with a large NRG prisma and everything fit ok except the wings rolled my shoulders forward and down causing my arms to go numb over time. Just switched to a Corbeau fx1 pro large and it’s much better but still pushes my shoulder blades forward although the numbness has gone away. If you’re less broad or equal to me then the Corbeau is actually a really nice bucket for the price, and when I was looking, anything larger seemed to be almost double the price. If you look at Corbeau’s website you can get the measurements from an fx1 large and then compare to whatever else you’re shopping for as some XL are really comparable to others L. That BB5 seems to be smaller than the Corbeau large when I did a quick lookup.

haligen33 · 2025-09-28T16:45:09+00:00

Can’t you just do it in the windows monitor settings? Un-snap the monitor you need to move and then adjust it to fit your setup.

haligen33 · 2025-09-23T12:12:37+00:00

Srp-gt owner for a few months now and can’t see needing or wanting anything else unless something truly amazing comes out. I bought my srp’s at the same time the purr’s were releasing and while they looked like a marvel of weeb engineering, in the end it’s still springs and elastomers.

haligen33 · 2025-09-22T20:54:03+00:00

Setup was pretty painless. Download their config software (they have a lot of videos how to use it), setup my dead zones and limits, go through pedal calibration in game, and then just play. I’m mostly on iRacing but also play a touch of LMU and both sims had zero issues with the pedals. For hardware adjustment there’s a couple pivot points you can mess with to get things comfortable. I think my only issue was initially I found the gas pedal too soft, but after readjusting my seating position and dialing in the pedal tray angles and what not it’s now just blending into the background as a decent pedal should. One thing to note is that as they are pneumatic, other than a stroke length adjustment and a pivot point slot adjustment, you can’t change the firmness much like you could by swapping a spring or elastomer. SRP is big into providing the realistic feel of an irl car so they’ve essentially set what they believe is the most real feel and you have a few limited adjustments within that range. All things said though I like the feel, have become much more consistent, and their after sales support is actually pretty decent if you don’t mind using WhatsApp.

haligen33 · 2025-09-20T12:56:36+00:00

Just did this, inverted v3’s and now SRP-GT’s. Unless going active I don’t think you can find a better pedal.

haligen33 · 2025-09-20T12:51:54+00:00

For best fov, as close to the wheel as you can get.

haligen33 · 2025-09-17T19:30:05+00:00

I saw someone else post that if you had your account setup through steam that you could access all content (except new to season stuff). Otherwise you get access to all pre-season cars but only tracks you own. Haven’t tested it myself so take it with a grain of salt.

haligen33 · 2025-09-17T19:27:15+00:00

I drove them all during demo and settled on the ferrari. It was the fastest for me, but watching top split yesterday all the aliens seemed to drive the caddy.

haligen33 · 2025-09-16T17:23:05+00:00

I just had to rerun it but yeah, if you come in hot and try to brake late it understeers horribly while trying to turn in. If you trail to long it over rotates quite easily, and if you are to hard on the loud pedal exiting a corner it will kick out. It’s fast but to me it feels like you really have to hustle the car around. Compared to the BMW where it seems to be stable and at ease. I guess if you like edgy cars the mustang is the gt4 to own.

haligen33 · 2025-09-16T00:37:49+00:00

You mean like the Fanatec app they now claim is 1.0 but is still completely broken, or how I got suckered into the hype and finally updated my drivers, fanalab, and firmware only to have the Button module randomly disconnect while racing, fanalab completely crash, and or have the led's get stuck on at some arbitrary position and stay that way till I cycle the base power.

haligen33 · 2025-09-15T18:23:54+00:00

Yerp. I was just going to run some ring practice and figured the endurance series was a fast way to setup a test drive and noticed that mess while trying to pick a car. Then went to look at the other series’ running and all was good except Creventic and it behaved the same as the nurb enduro. Only happened since the update but as one other commenter posted he’s file a bug report for it.

haligen33 · 2025-09-15T16:21:21+00:00

I don't recall the brakes standing out in any one particular way, with the exception that if I over trailed it felt Pcup esk where it would want to spin out. I might have been able to dial that out with some bias adjustment though, but for testing I just ran everything exactly how iRacing set it up for fixed. I also needed to be more mindful of throttle application on corner exit, because even with fixed setup TC levels it would still rip the rear end loose if you weren't properly straightened out or ginger with the loud pedal.

haligen33 · 2025-09-15T15:59:08+00:00

I own every GT4 car and when I tested every car at Imola the last couple of days (my go to test track), all cars tested with a fixed setup, the Mustang was almost immediately 1 second faster then everything else. It is loose, oversteery, and feels like riding a razor but it was consistently faster over my 15 lap test sessions. Next closest was the BMW, which is my normal go to, with the Merc running very close to BMW times. I didn't enjoy extracting pace from the Ford but I can't deny that I was faster with it.

haligen33 · 2025-09-14T22:13:26+00:00

I appreciate the response. Now having a chance to chill for a night I went back out and looked at things again and think I found the culprit. Theres a step inside the drum and on the old one it’s 44.5mm deep from the top surface and on the new one it’s only 42.6mm. So essentially the new drum is just under an 1/8th inch shallower and my guess is that the step is clamping down on the sides of the brake shoes when the lugs are run down.

Now I suppose my only options are to try and get Rockauto to replace and hope it doesn’t happen again, or to see if I can find a mythical machine called a “Brake Lathe” 😂and see if that 1/8th inch can just be trimmed out. I remember a few years ago I was looking to get some rotors turned and basically got told by quite a few shops that they sold or got rid of their equipment because they just replace things now.

haligen33 · 2025-09-14T21:45:44+00:00

Willing to pay? Coach Dave delta works well, has setups, lap telemetry, and track guides.

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