Some spring rates will auto-adjust as you drive around the track.
Just started setting my ride heights all the way down and noticed the spring rates change after like a lap. Idk how good this is yet, but I like where it’s going so far. My rides smooth out a good bit after a lap or 2. Hasn’t worked on everything I’ve tried it on tho.
I believe this has something to do with the fuel load changing.
When you’re driving you obviously use up fuel, less fuel = less weight and the spring values seem to change with this.
You can try going to a track, check the tuning, change the fuel load and go back to tuning.
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I think some cars adjust the spring rates based off your ride heights.
more bugs?
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Or a feature? Idk. Just something I noticed.
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Fuel load makes more sense. “Auto adjusting spring rates” is active suspension
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Fuel load wouldn’t matter when I drop the ride height. Game’s behaving as if it’s re-adjusting the spring rates based on how the ride height is set. Fuel load would just put more weight on the springs, not change their rate. It’s like when I bottom the car out, it’ll adjust so that doesn’t happen again. Happens wether I have fuel simulation on or not.
Sound like another bug then
I did some playing around with this to find a reason to explain it. To me it appears that the spring rates are set to a point on the slider instead of set to their number.
Let’s say you put the spring rates at 99.2 (metric) which is at 75% of the slider (random numbers). Now if you decrease the fuel load from 50% to 25%, the slider remains at 75% but the value is now lower at 97.7 (again random) because the overall weight of the car is lower. The same happens when lowering the weight of your car with upgrades.
The spring rate slider stays at the same point on the slider instead of at the same value.
I don’t know if this is a bug, but it does seem a little weird… Does this mean the value also changes as you’re driving on the track and use up fuel?
It did it in FM7 with the F1 GTR if you had weight reduction or not.
aaaah this must be the reason why my car (nissan s15) was bouncing up and down before the race started , and it was bouncy during the race to . this must be a bug , 6 years they said LoL
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Not sure if I like how this is setup. Spring rates are a constant on any car, and only advanced shocks/coil overs have the ability to adjust “on the fly” (magnetorheological dampers).
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