Fairings destroyed the 4th set of my rover's wheels

[More Boosters]

So uhh, I launched a Moho rover with 8 wheels and the two wheels at the back are broken. I launched the entire thing in a fairing so I am assuming the fairing somehow destroyed those wheels when I opened it. I opened at like 45km altitude so could it have been the atmosphere? Wouldn't make sense and only one set was broken.

Should I feel bad about contemplating repairing the wheel via editing the vessel's text file? I mean I jumped through all those hoops and wheel pops up while in space...

[Alshain]

If it entered the atmosphere rear wheels first, it absolutely could have been the atmosphere but I'm not sure if heat damages those kinds of parts like that (as opposed to them just blowing up). Give us a picture of the rover in it's fairings, otherwise we are just making wild guesses.

It makes no sense to ask if something is wrong with your craft and not post a picture.

[Guest]

Fairing shells are non-persistent debris, so you can keep it closed up until you get into orbit, and it won't become space junk. Just FYI.

[More Boosters]

[quote name='MailletC']Fairing shells are non-persistent debris, so you can keep it closed up until you get into orbit, and it won't become space junk. Just FYI.[/QUOTE]

Yeah but they are massive and there was practically no air resistance at that point.

[Superfluous J]

Did you hit F3 to see what was listed in the flight log?

[LordFerret]

Huh? Moho has no atmosphere. Been there.

Was the fairing clipping the rover wheels?


[I]Edit:[/I]
Bah... nevermind, you meant Kerbin's atmosphere lol.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Thats really a weird Issue. I need to do some testing but I am already afraid I cant reproduce it.

[sal_vager]

Were they stock or mod fairings?

Concave colliders don't work anymore apparently, so a faring needs to be made with [U][URL="http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/140093-Tutorial-Fairing-colliders"]multiple convex colliders.[/URL][/U]

[Overland]

Just about any kerbal can repair a wheel.. Right click it amd hit repair..works fine for me although I do carry most engineer kerbals

See repairing a tanker wheel..unless you mean explode?
[video]https://youtu.be/wYeE3RY0M84[/video] Edited November 23, 2015 by Overland

[Superfluous J]

[quote name='Overland']Just about any kerbal can repair a wheel.. Right click it amd hit repair..works fine for me although I do carry most engineer kerbals

See repairing a tanker wheel..unless you mean explode?
[url]https://youtu.be/wYeE3RY0M84[/url][/QUOTE]

Do you play Sandbox? In career, only Engineers can change tires. I'm not sure on Science mode, which is a bit amusing considering I'm doing a Science Mode run right now :D

[KerikBalm]

and the engineer needs to be at least level 2... ie orbited Kerbin and planted a flag on minmus (or orbited kerbin and mun, and flyby of Minmus - or flyby of mun and escape Kerbin SOI... and so on)