Bespoke Paddle Shifters

Every review of cars fitted with dual function paddles, my own experience of having them & changing them, and the fact that BMW & Porsche reverted to single function paddles after a very short time.

As did almost all other car manufacturers.

I get that some people may like them, but not the vast majority.

If anyone wants to try a set of dual function paddles for the e89, I have a set here they can have - simple swap (no coding).
 
matsmith749 said:
Every review of cars fitted with dual function paddles, my own experience of having them & changing them, and the fact that BMW & Porsche reverted to single function paddles after a very short time.

As did almost all other car manufacturers.

I get that some people may like them, but not the vast majority.

If anyone wants to try a set of dual function paddles for the e89, I have a set here they can have - simple swap (no coding).
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My experience of single-function paddles - R up, L down - was that they were ideal for track days in a 911, but less so in 'real life', where dual-function gives freedom to the left hand.
 
What would that ‘freedom’ be used for though?

Would your left hand not be on the steering wheel anyways? How do you work the indicators without using your left hand?

Sounds like your use case is - spirited driving (hence manual great control with the paddles) whilst holding the wheel with one hand & not using indicators.

If that was really an important consideration, I could 100% see why dual function paddles could be a benefit. However, I don’t believe for a second that was in the BMW engineers minds when they created the dual function paddles.

If anything it might have been a reason to shift away from them!

Or even better - no paddles at all & use the auto box on auto. Then you have ‘freedom’ for both hands?
 
matsmith749 said:
What would that ‘freedom’ be used for though?
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As you know from your own 35is x 2, almost every control is used by the left hand. In contrast, the right hand does very little.

My experience of the mostly out-of-town/edge-of-town driving I do in Normal/Sport/Sport+ is that the left hand is quite busy, not least, for example, when exploiting the dual-direction gearstick.

Certainly, in my experience, 'drive with 2 hands on the wheel and change gear with the paddles' doesn't last for long.
 
That's my experience too - I only use the paddles occasionally TBH, my normal driving would bein full auto mode (so single / dual function doesn't exactly change my world).

I honestly never considered freeing up my left hand though - it's just not a thing that's caused me a problem over the last 40 years of driving.

In the good old days of manual gearboxes, my left hand was way more active on the gearstick & I never thought about freeing it up so I could interact with more controls inside the car.

Is this even a thing?

Are people sat here on the forum thinking 'I wish I could free up my left hand for more twiddling'?
 
There you go, Chris. Extra 50 bhp on the dyno. You want two ?

:rofl:
 

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