"Car is in worse condition..." when trying to finish job

[primal prawn]

However, I did change all broken parts with brand-new ones, changed the oil and drained/replenished brake fluid and windscreen washer fluid as per job, and re-installed all non-job parts needed to be removed for the job (just the tires this time - all the same type front and rear)

[surreal vigil]

This may not be a bug - when you installed parts on the vehicle did you happen to install REALLY broken parts? Because CMS is programmed to prevent players from making customer cars inherently worse in an attempt to steal good parts for themselves.

[woven patrol]

This has just happened to me too. I installed brand new parts and just used those to replace the old ones. I didn't touch any other parts of the vehicle. Still, it says I can't finish the job because car is in worse condition than when it came in...

[primal prawn]

If the only reason is that I may have swapped some other parts involved, like brake calipers or tires, then I am not really interested in playing such a stricter game - adding friction without depth like that. 2021 didn't care about left/right (and didn't mark them either - you could literally switch sides on all your parts and it wouldn't make a difference)

[primal prawn]

As an experienced 15/18/21 player, I believe I know what parts I installed.

If the game demands not switching sides, it needs to mark left/right parts, otherwise there's no point

[woven patrol]

It could be because of this. I've never played attention to left wheel/right wheel as long as it was same specs. I also did a test run before repairing the car, which makes me think... Maybe some part came with 73% (i.e.) and after the test, it went down to 72% and the game sees it as worse condition?

[surreal vigil]

The best example I can come up with it taking a 90% condition engine out and replacing it with an 1% condition engine then trying to finish the order. CMS prevents the player from doing that. Not necessarily that you moved a 73% brake caliper from FL to FR.

[primal prawn]

Nothing extreme like that - this is the first job I did and I had a blank inventory so no chance to use other parts but the ones I already took out or bought brand-new.

[woven patrol]

Is your order the Luxor Streamliner Mk3 too?

[surreal vigil]

It computes the overall condition of the car and says "this is a 95% condition car and now you turned it into a 90% condition car; hence the warning." It may be more mathematical in how it treats each section (i.e. body and parts), but that's the idea.

[woven patrol]

I can assure you that isn't the case. It's the first order I do, I don't even have other parts of any other cars either. It was just replacing what I was told to

[sleek rover]

yeah this has happened to me just now. i installed all brand new parts for what they was asking me to install and it gave me that

[surreal vigil]

I'll let RDG decide on what they want to do - they may ask for your save game.

[woven patrol]

Sure thing, if it helps I'm up for it

[primal prawn]

I think they somehow messed up the overall status calculation with possible left/right swaps. Once they realise that, and they do have the code from 21 for it, should be an easy fix

I never once saw that message in 15/18/21 and I did some sneaky swaps back then, but probably never violated the overall "before vs after" balance so always went through

[tawny sentinel]

Did you manage to finish the mission?

[woven patrol]

I'm afraid not

[winged ridge]

Having the exact same problem. Took everything needed down (wheels, brakes etc.) ordered new parts, put everything back together using new parts and got the same error.

[long zealot]

Same happend to me now.. finished 3 cars perfectly (newly added) and then the 4th one did this shiz to me.. its the one with piston rings..

[sleek rover]

the one that looks like a ford taurus?

[supple hazel]

same

[long zealot]

Its called Salem Aries MK3

[weary vessel]

yeah im having the same issue with the ford taurus

[twin trail]

Just to further the discussion. I only touched/changed the parts in the first screenshot. It worked perfect on a 1st playthrough but not on this 2nd one.

[sage hornet]

same issue for me with the 2nd car

repaired all parts completed all tasks, unsure why it's happening

[sleek rover]

idk it seems to be a huge bug

im stuck rn because of it

[uneven mauve]

yeah i am having the same problem too can't do anything. weird thing is the game flashes green for finish order too

[tough pine]

Getting the same problem with the "ford tarus" mission. only replaced parts the game told me too

[desert stream]

Can confirm, I got the same bug with the Taurus lookalike. All specified parts are at 100%, all fluids changed, and car has started. I've even replaced the non specified parts on combo parts like the pistons/rings.

[atomic nimbus]

I had the same problem. I just checked and replace every part which was under required % and i might put wrong one. They should add sth to show that the part isnt original in the car or while putting the part showing the original part that was there or just place new/difrent.

[primal prawn]

At this stage, an acknowledgement by RDG would be nice, so that we know it's getting handled.

[stable sparrow]

bro it's easter weekend they are all home with family, maybe wait til monday when they are all working again. Damn.

[stable sparrow]

Replayed the story this morning on a new save version 1.03 and did not experience any of these issues. Not saying any of you are invalid. I was just trying to see if I could reproduce this issue and was not successful.

[winged ridge]

As this was the first car, I started a new game and this time I did every wheel, one by one, so that all the parts that weren't renewed go exactly where they were and it worked. I'm guessing this could be a problem with old parts getting switched positions (like wheels, tires) and the % being incorrect but I may be wrong. let's wait what devs are going to say here.

[primal prawn]

All good — wasn’t expecting anyone to be fixing bugs over Easter, just looking to confirm it’s on the radar.

[buoyant flame]

Running into this, stuck on this 3rd car - Salem Aries MK3 DF

All issues to fix are done, but car condition is at 99% and won't let me complete it.

Have gone through the list of parts and everything is showing compliant, no obvious way of fixing this aside from going through and replacing other parts...

Others have speculated that it might be from swapping the left/right parts for other components that were not part of the issues to fix

So for example what I would have done

• Disassemble the entire rear suspension assemblies (left and right at the same time), then put them back on - so could have easily mised up things like bushings here or identical left/right parts
• I probably did the same with the front suspension parts too

All parts are either from this vehicle or brand new, no trying to swap in bad parts etc etc...

I restarted the game and configuration compliance is now showing 100% and still can't complete the job

[uneven peak]

Having the same issue with the first story job ...

[dark lichen]

i did all the jobs like 10x each and i never had this, if you take something apart what not should replaced but it is also - condition from before that you also would get this, also so as you said if you change the left and right side.

It is not a solution but i didn't get problems with it..

[primal prawn]

This never happened in 15/18/21 for me, and I am confident also for others. This tightening up needs to be somehow loosened IMHO. The overall status of the car cannot go down if you replace some faulty parts with brand-new ones and then just reinstall any other parts just as they came out of the car and in any order - simple does it. There was never an "ID" on each position to consider when taking parts off, i.e. left/right tires/wheels/rods/hubs worked just fine interchanged.

[desert stream]

I replaced every part I ever touched on the car. Including all other multiples of it and the left or right sides, even if I never touched those ones. And it worked, I can complete the contract, but this is still ridiculous the Devs should still look at it.

[buoyant flame]

It's not a good solution when you're looking for unidentified parts, and have already used all the available tools to scan or detect part quality without disassembling anything, and already use the examine tool on everything visible.

There were still some parts in an unknown status where I had to take them off to see the quality.

I don't remember CMS 2021 having this issue either

[sage hornet]

anyone know how i can get past this for now? i cant progress past the 2nd car

[compact night]

how to finish this car

[stable sparrow]

idk I know that I always ensure I put 100% parts in place of the ones that are marked in the job list. Don't put a different part there that's not 100% even if it was on the car before. as @desert stream said above another temp solution could be to just replace all the parts you've removed from the car with new ones and it 'should' at least let you progress for now.

@compact night ^ this could be a temp solution to at least get to the next mission for now. The last bit.

[compact night]

replace all the parts I had removed?

[stable sparrow]

ya as annoying as it is, and def not the correct way it should have to be done. but it should at least let you get to the next mission if that's what you want.

There are only 3 story missions too, so you probably only have one more to go in the demo

[compact night]

and if for example I put the engine on the stand then the gearbox also needs to be changed?

[stable sparrow]

i don't know tbh. I haven't experienced this issue myself. This was just a work around someone else had success with. Maybe only really need to replace 'like' parts from job list. Like if you do sway bar link right, also do the left. I cant be sure what will and won't work sorry haha

[compact night]

oke thx

[compact night]

I'm going to play cms 21 I'm tired of screwing up that machine

[heady barn]

same thing happenned to me on first story mission.

[bold marsh]

Stuck in the MAYEN M5 job with the same issue

[plucky lynx]

Can you send me the save files with this issue: “The car is in poor condition...”?

[buoyant flame]

I can zip up mine and send to you

[plucky lynx]

sure, [e-mail]

[buoyant flame]

ah had DM'ed you, or is email better

[plucky lynx]

oh it's ok no problem

thanks

[empty sage]

Same problem.

[sleek rover]

Yeah it seems like it’s a reoccurring issue

[buoyant flame]

Oh, some more info

So I'm pretty sure what I did was disassemble the whole rear suspension etc, and started to pull apart the engine, then hit the inventory parts limit.

Then I would have put some parts into the warehouse storage, then later take them out to put it back on the car.

So I wonder if putting parts in storage did anything strange to tracking if they were original parts or not?

[plucky lynx]

Ok, I think it'll be fixed in 1.0.4

[buoyant flame]

Is there a particular action that you think triggers it?

[plucky lynx]

there’s a bug in the logic for randomizing the condition of parts 🙁

[autumn bough]

I FIGURED IT OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT I FIXED IT

BUY NEW RIMS IT FIXES IT IT U HAVE NOT 100% WHEEEL IT WILL THINK IT IS WORSE THEN WHAT U PUT ON IT

[primal prawn]

Will wait for the fix before I try the save game again - hopefully it will not require restarting the game.

[stable sparrow]

Thanks for your hard work!

[buoyant flame]

Oh wow that actually did something on my stuck save and I was able to submit the last car

Originally I had replaced one rim to test, but now I went back to the remaining 3, and it let me submit the car

two out of the 3 rims were below the 66% condition requirement on one of the screens.

When I had originally replaced the tires, I did not keep track of which rims came from which corner of the car...

[plucky lynx]

You need to replace a few extra parts with ones that are at 100% condition, and then it should let you complete the job.

[azure parcel]

So is this because you guys did some driving and wore the customers car down or from putting the wheels back on the wrong axle ?

[stoic sonnet]

Same old bug where parts on the car can arrive with lower condition than acceptable minimum, tho the parts are not in the list of things to be replaced... and removing / replacing them in different but compatible slots causes the part to flag as unacceptably low.
It is the reason why so many cms youtubers say to just buy a full set of new piston rings and replace them all if even one is broken... not for symmetry realism and roleplay, but to avoid taking apart the whole engine again if you forget which ring it was.

[stable sparrow]

This is why I love the marking system. I can 'see' which set of rings was flagged to be replace on the order.

[solid plover]

Will this fix affect currently bugged jobs? Or will it only affect future jobs? I'm really not looking forward to the idea of replacing every single part I touched, if I could even remember what all it was.

[twin trail]

I think the bug happens with the other 3-7 rings. If you don't put the 75% one back in the 75% slot, it can upset the averaging. That's my guess anyway

Sparks plugs is probably a better example because I don't pull pistons unless I have to

[buoyant flame]

I hadn't played CMS 2021 in a long time and I completely forgot about the tools that can be used to check/test combustion, ignition etc, or the examine mode where you can just stare long enough at a part to check its status..

So because I forgot all that, I wanted to do a 100% teardown of a car to check ALL it's parts 😄 that'll definitely lead to mixing up left/right parts etc.

[plucky lynx]

Unfortunately, the bug broke things at the stage of accepting the order. So we’ll need to start over, or replace the “extra” parts completely to make sure the average condition of all car parts increases.

[solid plover]

Dang, thought as much. Thanks!

[left trellis]

This is also a bug in CMS 2021. I noticed this when doing the story quests there.

[primal prawn]

Do we know when 1.0.4 comes out?

[stable sparrow]

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[weary vessel]

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[stable sparrow]

'Tis out