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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: TagnuT on 21 January 2008, 21:53
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I know that there is a thread with regards to this on UK Mkivs forum. Has anyone on here tried it?
I was talking to the parts guys at the local stealer and and they were having trouble recoding a R32 steering wheel that some guy had fitted to his golf. The could not get it to work. Problems with the convenience module or something.
If you have tried it or have a link to a posting else where let me know pls :smiley:
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Stealer having trouble with VAGCOM - no surprise there! :evil:
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Yep, I did it last week.
I was very easy, in my case I have a GTi with DSG so I have the paddles. I bought a passat mfsw from ebay and took the buttons from that and replaced the blanks on my wheel. I plugged in the connectors for the paddles in to the new button modules and put the air bag back on. Started it up and now have vol +/-, mute. I only have the midline display so I can go through those menu's with the right side arrows and use the OK. I cannot use the phone button as I have no factory phone prep or change the radio station or track. But my left arm is perfectly long enough for changing track or station, though I tend to listen to my ipod on shuffle anyway. No VAG-COM recoding was required.
Its a very easy mod to do rather then swap the whole wheel particularly if the car had the paddles. If the car does not have paddles I think there can be coding issues. To be able to change the audio settings/tracks you need a Highline display and a "convenience module" ( allow for the car settings like auto locking to be changed via the display). I think the UK cars have this as standard, in Ireland the tight importers bring in the midline as standard.