Paul Jeffrey

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We talk to Niels Heusinkveld and try out the soon to be released Heusinkveld Sim Pedals Sprint.

Catching up with Niels Heusinkveld at the recent very busy Sim Racing Expo over in Germany, we took the opportunity to quiz the man behind Heusinkveld Engineering about his newly announced Sim Pedals Sprint set of high end sim racing pedals. With Niels in a buoyant mood following what appeared to be a largely very positive reception to the new hardware, we took the opportunity to question him about the features and improvements of the new gear, learning plenty about how some dramatic software features and production improvements have moved the product range on from the already very impressive offerings of HE Engineering.

Not content with merely taking Niels at his word, we also couldn't quite resist the chance to get strapped into the cockpit and have a go ourselves, recording a short but sweet talk and drive segment as we give our first impressions based on the limited time we had with these brand new set of pedals.

Frankly, I was very impressed, although it is exceptionally hard to gather any serious kind of feel with something like a high end set of pedals with such a short period of time behind the wheel... not helped any by a crowd of people watching on, and a camera and microphone in my face!

However, with that said I'm going to be lucky enough to take receipt of a review set of these pedals in the very near future, so please consider this more of a taster video, with a much more in depth and detailed look at the HE Sim Pedals Sprint set to appear on our various social media channels in the near future. So stay tuned, get subscribed and watch out for some new footage in the (hopefully) coming weeks...

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I emailed them last week and haven't gotten a response. My order was March 8th.

I have plenty of patience, but when I get the sense that my order somehow fell to the back of the queue and that they are filling orders they got after mine before mine, that actually does bother me.

Life goes on, but that does leave a bad taste.
 
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the status of my order has now changed, before processing, and now it says completed, but I have not received any email confirming the shipment !!!!

What does it say in your control panel of the web store?

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:) It's raining HSV Sprints * ! Yay!


* well, once you get that UPS tracking info ..;)

Unlike my Uk ordered handbrake, the second one now appears to have gone 'missing' during shipment via courier. First one I bought the day of release of Dirt Rally 2 ! Gah !
 
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So I get a call for UPS saying my shipment has been held because Demon Tweeks classified it as Automotive, Nursery, Playground, and they wanted to know what the contents of the shipment were.

They said it may still get here tomorrow, but it also may not because of the confusion.

Someone is just messing with me at this point ;)

They called me a baby who wants his toys to play with.
edit(Only paraphrasing from the classification)
 
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So I get a call for UPS saying my shipment has been held because Demon Tweeks classified it as Automotive, Nursery, Playground, and they wanted to know what the contents of the shipment were.

They said it may still get here tomorrow, but it also may not because of the confusion.

Someone is just messing with me at this point ;)

They called me a baby who wants his toys to play with.

Did they really? I thought it was only you that said things like that. :D
 
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If you can't laugh at yourself, right? I've got a new UPS status now!

I think we've derailed this whole thread with bitching about shipment dates and announcements when we are emailed or have received our pedals.

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I signed up for UPS Quantum and looked to see if I had a shipment coming to me. It's free to setup. It shows me the calendar view I showed above in post #213 with all scheduled deliveries to me without my having to give it a tracking #.

This morning it arrived at my local UPS delivery station at 6:46AM and it went out for deliver at 8:14AM this morning. I may see it by lunch.

What's even worse is that I just got an email that allows me to click on a map to see where the delivery truck is. It looks like it is still at the UPS facility.

Next we'll have drones with a camera view so you can see them flying to your house :)

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