M Wheel - Paddles?
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You oculd use the M Sport wheel which is the same but with black stitching, the SMG paddles are the same as the steptronic ones.
peddy said:
Not sure that's right Peddy - I swapped a standard MFSW for a paddle shift, MF, non ///M steering wheel. Made my own harness and Steptronic activating leads
That said I have no doubt it you're prepared to do a bit of swapping of components across you'd be able to make it all work. You'll have to do some research and see how the paddles mount on th espokes and if the extra loom connector can be swapped out.
cj10jeeper said:
As far as I can tell the only difference between the M and standard steering wheels is the leather making it thicker and the lower spoke. since the paddles wrap around the back of the side spokes which are the same in both models I assumed they would fit. Also, IIRC the internal are the same so you should be able to add any extra wiring required, etc. This was my reasoning for it to work, but hey, who am I to say anything... I've not tried it and never will, so I may be completly wrong.
I have the M-wheel, and personally my biggest (and so far only) annoyance with the car is the paddle shift. Having a paddle on both sides where pushing either forward or back does the same thing to me seems just unnatural and 'wrong'. It seems far more natural to have left side down shift/right side up shift for example.
Don't suppose anyone has figured out or done a harness change to do that have they?
Don't suppose anyone has figured out or done a harness change to do that have they?
cj_eds said:I have the M-wheel, and personally my biggest (and so far only) annoyance with the car is the paddle shift. Having a paddle on both sides where pushing either forward or back does the same thing to me seems just unnatural and 'wrong'. It seems far more natural to have left side down shift/right side up shift for example.
Don't suppose anyone has figured out or done a harness change to do that have they?
I guess we'd have to disagree on that as I find it obvious that push either for down and pull either for up. No matter where the wheel is upside down, right way around I get the same change.
In terms of modding them - I built my own harness so can tell you that all the switch does is grounds momentarity to earth. That effects a change. All you'd need to do is identify which wire does the 'up' and which 'down' and make a coupe of small changes to switch 2 of them in the wheel loom
cj10jeeper said:
My preference is probably based on the first steering wheel I got for my PC! Too much time in front of Gran Turismo like games and too little with real world semi-auto boxes... Hadn't gone digging around the harness because I'd assumed that the switches on either sides would be in parallel then routed through a single pin for each side - therefore needing a change that wasn't as easy to swap back when done with the car.
Apologies for the thread hijack BTW.
Ha - I sometimes exit a bend wishing I had a reset button to try it again a bit faster with limited consequence ...
My paddles operate the steptonic auto and all that needs is a single cable for up and one for down. Earth is by a common earth in the wheel so should be able to do it easy enough. I actually drove it in the close using a single earhing wire on the box to test up and down
My paddles operate the steptonic auto and all that needs is a single cable for up and one for down. Earth is by a common earth in the wheel so should be able to do it easy enough. I actually drove it in the close using a single earhing wire on the box to test up and down