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Thrustmaster Wheel playing up...

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Hey all. Man it's been a long time since I've been here. Sad to say, I'm only back to beg for someone's help. ;)

I recently bought a Thrustmaster Steering Wheel for my ol' DC. Worked great for the first day, but now I have an odd problem.. the d-pad seems to constantly move right. The analog part (the wheel itself) still works fine, and the little d-pads on the steering wheel still work. But even when I'm not pressing anything at all, it acts as if I'm pressing right on the d-pad. Which makes navigating a lot of game menus a huge pain in the arse. The best I can do is make the selection stay still by holding left to cancel it out, but I can't make it stop. Nothing I've tried seems to make any difference (changing digital/analog mode, starting the DC with the wheel held in a different position, etc).

Does anyone have any clues as to what's happening? Anyone aware of this problem? It's definitely the wheel at fault, no problems with my other controllers.

I suspect that my Nexus 4M memory card may have caused this, as I think it started acting up shortly after using that in the wheel. That'll learn me to use dodgy memory expansion cards with nice working controllers. ;)
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You could open it up and try cleaning in and around the dpad, there might be something stuck in there making it press right.
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Looks like I might have to give that a shot. Unfortunately in order to get into the wheel section I need some hexagon screwdrivers. Hrmm, I wonder if any of my allen keys would fit...

Edit: Well, I've opened the wheel right up and found the most bizarre thing. It seems that there was a mistake when they printed the circuit that the buttons are all soldered to... two tracks that obviously shouldn't be joined (either side of the right d-pad button) were joined. I guess someone realised this in production and the track has been cut. I guess it wasn't cut well enough, the resistance between the two tracks is only about 100 Ohm. Attempting to remedy that now.
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No idea what that meant :mrgreen:
But I hope you solve it :)
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Well, it turns out the cut track wasn't the problem... one of the two d-pad right buttons had a short. So I just desoldered that and now it works perfectly (sans one of the d-pad right buttons). Don't know if I'll bother replacing it, works fine with just one dpad. ;)
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