Does The Thrustmaster Ferrari GT3 Wheel beat my Fanatec McLaren GT3?

big head-to head here you can see it is the  thrustmaster GT3 F gt34 add-on versus the fantic   McLaren GT3 racing wheel and I've been using the  thrustmaster for the last few weeks on my PC on   the t818 direct drive system across a variety  of Sims and I used some McLaren for a couple of   years on my PlayStation and the PC as well now I  bought the fitech thrust Master gave me a review   version here here there are no strings attached  on either thrust Master just said say whatever   you want to say we just want to hear your honest  thoughts on it so I'm going to do that good and   negative just so you know but for me this really  is a head-to-head like and we're going to get into   this in the video but it represents two different  ecosystems and The Fanatic ecosystem I think is   more respected than the trust Master ecosystem  when it comes to mid to high end so I started on   t150 this is quite an interesting video I started  on the thrust Master t150 uh on this channel and I   upgraded to a fanch CS Elite with this so I went  from thrustmaster to Fant I didn't think at that   point about going from thrust well I considered  it going from thrust Master thrust Master T300 the   t818 wasn't available there now thrust Mars have  the T8 it's a more compelling sort of comparison   okay so I'm going to start with the 48 GT3 and  let you know my honest thoughts completely honest   thoughts I'm not obliged to say anything or not  say anything so when I took this out of the box   I was like o this feels cheap and I looked at  the back of it and you see the quick release   looks cheap it doesn't look like for example my  mosa quick releases also this wasn't attached it   was just a hole into the wheel like an exposed  USB it was very very very light and it is light   and it's got these weird d-pads here and almost  like bare LED lights you can't really see here   but there like bare LEDs I like o this feels very  cheap it just feels like a circuit board with some   grips p on it and I put it back in the box I was  reading some other stuff and then eventually I put   it back on I put it on the PC on my t818 when  I started using it my opinion did change and   it started to make a bit more sense and explain  why so firstly it is light but I don't think it's   light because it's cheap and though by the way  these come in at the same price important to say   basically £199 for both I prefer the carbon  fiber face plate on this to the faux carbon   fiber on the fitech and I was really worried  about the quick release but I attached it in   the counter sunk holes here slaughtered in and  I've had no issues the biggest issue with me on   the thrust M system has been attaching the t818  to the rig so in the end the lightness and that   weren't a problem now I still don't like these  buttons here I think they're weird now whether   it's accurate or not because this is a basically  a replica the F 4 H3 which is my favorite car to   drive in Sim racing and I've actually driven the F  4 H3 in real life but the one I drove in real life   had the circular wheel this has the uh the GT1  but whether that's replica or not I don't know   but I don't like them but some stuff did start to  make sense so the buttons and sort of industrial   nature of the LEDs and the very very very clicky  which I didn't like at the time shift is is a very   actually satisfying and solid click I would still  damper them though otherwise you're going to wake   up your neighbors and indeed the next Village but  it feels like a very responsive because the thrust   Mo t818 has quite a delicate force feedback  what I mean by that is when you're going mid   corner and you want to make an adjustment the  thrust Master t818 force feedback allows you to   facilitate that compared to say something like  this is a complet opposite example like the C   C12 Once you turn on the C C12 that's it that's  your steering position it's really difficult to   change it now when I drove the Ferrari 48 G3 real  life I had the same delicate Sensational steering   you can see that in my videos because it's a  very power steer car to drive very power steer   and that's what the thrust mus Force speedback  gives you and because this is a light wheel it   also dials into that and gives you that delicate  falce feedback you feel like you can almost drive   it like that sometimes and that's how the fry was  to drive so it started to make sense in that way   it's like it feels like a replica it's got a nice  carbon fiber front plate it's got these industrial   LEDs and it's relatively light because it's like  do that there are some negatives we're going to   get on to so but first let's put this down just  again bring up the F uh the the fitech here the   fitech is thicker if you can see it feels this  is so confusing cuz it's mirrored on my screen   so you can see there it's thicker I'm actually  not sure which one is heavier I don't know we'll   put the specs on screen so you can work it out and  you can see that the again these are replicas so   you know the button placement it's all replica I  prefer the button placement on the thrust Master   actually and there's some on the McLaren that  don't me again they don't really work on Xbox   anyway and the Xbox license but like these ones  not a massive fan of and I prefer the placement   actually of the encoders here when it comes  to shifters I got a real soft spot for these   shifters you can see that I've even worn away  the paint this has clutch pedals interestingly   this doesn't have clutch pedals which is a bit  disappointing um now I want to go on to the grips   now and was going to talk about negatives here  we go these feel like very cheap grips on the   um thrust Master 48 and weirdly doing what I do  on this channel I've squeezed so many Sim racing   grips now and I can tell when something is had a  lot of th and money spent on the material so for   example my Asher racing arua McLaren Pro the grips  are Exquisite they look very similar they they'll   look almost identical on camera but they just have  a slight give to them slight slight slight give   that's almost hard to put into words and when I be  doing lawn stints on Sim racing and iRacing that's   an absolute godsent like it's so nice just to be  able to move your hands around and squeeze when   you need to release when you don't want to and  just sort of have that Flex the fitech U McLaren   have a little bit of give in them just a little  bit in the material and the thrust M doesn't   have any actually a similar one is the Z MOA FSR  very high expensive Rim doesn't really have any   given those perforated grips so these feel quite  cheap actually and I wonder if they are expect   a lot of people to be using gloves wearing this  because I know having worn this with no gloves   AP from when I did my 8 hour stint for charity so  i' R for8 hours straight in this wheel for charity   we raised over ,000 and I wore gloves then but  I don't know why I did that really I think I was   worried about my hands understandably I'm going  to put them up again Head to Head the reality is   is nowadays and I've waxed lyrical about this  wheel but I bought this wheel I loved it race   top split witnessing One races in this thing like  my pal I feel like fitech stock excuse the P sort   of dropped recently people a bit more concerned  about fitech actually getting your orders customer   service thrustmaster you can buy it from your  retailer you can return it to your retailer so   it's stock there hasn't really been affected  because it has it's going through other places   of customer service you buy through retailers so  now there's an option of getting a Thrust a t818   if you decide to go for that and tlcm Lowel pedals  for whatever reasons because you like thrustmaster   I believe you now have an equivalent GT3 wheel  to the fitech McLaren GT3 for a similar price   and that means that you know you are just set  for GT3 racing in the same way that if you buy   into fitech and you get that you are set for GT3  and F1 racing like this is people still use this   who are doing thousands and thousands of hours  racing very high level like this will take you   all the way to the mountain this will take you to  the top and I think this is similar because some   of the build quality feels better I prefer it as  a replica and the downsides I think here you can   mitigate probably wearing gloves and I think  it's going to be a similar wheel that's going   to really play into the strength of the thrust  master t818 and also take you to the top of the   mountain for a relatively cheap price I mean this  wheel will feel expensive than the thrust Master   EOS system system and this whe feels cheap in  the fantic Eos system just where the brands are   sort of placed pricewise and you can also believe  pair this with thrust Master T300 and it comes in   the box with two different quick releases I think  the other ones with the T300 but yeah so taking   it out my Impressions were not great I was like  this feels like a toy and then when I got to use   it with the force feedback I got into it and I've  been really enjoying actually the thrust Master   force feedback even though the interfaces ain't  paent the driver process is like is not very well   uied and it didn't work natively in for example  lumon ultimate even though thrustmaster I think is   the partner with lumon ultimate so some teething  problems there but when it's been working and for   example in test of unlimited it worked natively  and my mosa just didn't work at all it's been   a really good experience and I enjoy sitting in  front of a Ferrari logo like that actually does   mean something weirdly that's branding probably  means more than this sort of McLaren stick on Logo   there but look at this a classic head it doesn't  get closer than this I never been criticized in   the past for comparing wildly different Wheels  but there we go let me know what you think in   the comments about this I've been using this for  the last few weeks I'm going to keep using it um   going forward so let me know what Sims you  want me to play on it and yeah I'm looking   forward to hearing your thoughts in the comments  that's my honest review of the thrust master the   48 GT3 wheel addon more videos around here if  you want to see them and I'll see you next time