Baffed brand new TM Warthog
You must have been one of the lucky ones! Mine came brand new like this photo shows. I've waited a week for the new parts, which is a replacement 5 pin female mini-DIN and a tiny ribbon cable and a new ground wire. These all need to be micro-soldered in (TM says all this doesn't void warranty...they had asked me to open this up and check it btw). I've also wanted a proper wire color to 5 pin solder diagram, which they haven't been able to provide. The photos they had sent came from their own internal Wiki, and are not clear, nor correct.
Still hoping someone who has taken the female 5 pin mini-DIN out of the base (gently) can shoot a picture of the color to pin combo.
Non of my buttons on the stick had worked at all, yet the independent throttle is working perfectly. BTW, some have mentioned a sticktion problem, but it appears the grease has been changed in new releases to a white grease which may be a lithum grease...not sure what it is but it's smooth. In my humble opinion, I wish for such issues, that Thrustmaster sent a brand new INSPECTED and QUALITY ASSURED base unit once I was confirmed as the original purchaser...that would be proper customer service.