retrofit sport button.

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imp75

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 Hartlepool
What would be involved in doing this?

I bought a replacement interior trim off someone on here earlier in the year in order to paint up a funky colour, anyway it had hole for sport button and just bought sport button this week (cheers TZ4) to fill the hole. Was just gonna paint and fit and not worry about button being a dummy, but got to thinking about maybe making it functional. My car is 2.0 Oct 2005.

If its impossible to make the button actually function as 'sport's what else do you think it could be used for???
 
Nitrous Oxide!! :P

Or an ejecter seat...

Or like on the Bond films, it opens the glove box and pours two glasses of champagne. Obviously yours would be non alcoholic :wink:

Just my opinion!
 
How about a start button. A few have added an S2000 style button for the ignition, maybe try the same but keep the button in the more discreet position that you have available.
 
I would think it would only be possible if the 2.0 in 2005 came with Sport Button as an option. But to be honest I don't think it will be worth the hassle.

Wire it up so the LED works and nobody will be any the wiser.
 
Srhutch, its good to see a sensible suggestion, but am happy to hear more of the outlandish ones ha ha
 
Do you use an iphone or gps in your car? you could hardwire them/ their chargers to it. then you have a nice oem power switch...

otherwise just wire it up to all those underbody led strips you know you want to install :P
 
imp75 said:
Srhutch, its good to see a sensible suggestion, but am happy to hear more of the outlandish ones ha ha
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I was going to add your also missing 2 cylinders so I would'nt bother as it won't make much difference, but at the time thought it was cruel. :poke:
 
A button which drops and oil slick/ nails behind the car like knight rider... for people who tailgate you!

srhutch said:
I was going to add your also missing 2 cylinders so I would'nt bother as it won't make much difference, but at the time thought it was cruel. :poke:
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Even better a button which adds 2 extra cyl... genius!
 
ChawenHalo said:
Useless button that's for sure. Used it once and never bothererd again.
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I agree on the ///M as I haven't used mine, on non ///M is was on all the time though.
 
I don't see why anyone would want a non-sport response anyway (which I'm aware kinda makes this thread hypocritical), so surely it would be permanently on. Am reminded at this time of the m button a the e60 m5. Why have less than the car can do?
 
Strangely I use it all the time as I have an auto.

Don't see the point of cruising along an A road or motorway with the gearbox one cog lower than it needs to be burning fuel, nor the throttle made so sensitive that you have to be feather light on it in traffic.

Of course once out of town and spirited it's nice to feel the steering tighten, gearbox change it's behaviour, etc.

In terms of retrofit on a 2.0. I can't see it working. You need so much mapping and control to mess with the throttle response and steering assistance.

You might ne able to wire it to one of those inline throtte response boxes to switch it on and off??
 
cj10jeeper said:
In terms of retrofit on a 2.0. I can't see it working. You need so much mapping and control to mess with the throttle response and steering assistance.

You might ne able to wire it to one of those inline throtte response boxes to switch it on and off??
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I thought it might be prohibitive, I'm nowhere near confident enough to mess with the mapping etc do looks like I'm gonna figure out how to make it become a licence plate switcher as mentioned above :P
 
I used to use it all the time...

then got fed up of the hyper sensitive throttle and stopped using it...

then removed the CDV...

fell back in love with it and find I can now be smoother with it on than off :D

:driving:
 
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