Pdk paddles can they be reversed ?

[JeffC]

am I on my own in thinking the paddles on a PDK box are backside first ? my natural reaction to go up a gear is pull back and its the one gripe I have about my car, was driving up over Hartside Pass yesterday and during a spirtited drive I kept pulling back to upshift, just wondering if its possible to reverse the action ?

[JeffC]

yes Im referring to the steering wheel gear controls on the Gen2 car,I call it a paddle but the upshift (push forward button) just feels like a push button .


the gearstick manual change is also backside first so I dont go near that!




I have driven sequential track/ race cars for over 10 years and all with gearstick have been pull back to go up , Mrs C has a 335D beemer and that is the same , so jumping into this car it just all seems sooooooooo wrong especially when you are making progress on backroads.

I really like the look of the sports steering wheel linked above especially if its smaller as I find the wheel on my car too big, its like steering a bus .

Edited by JeffC on Monday 3rd November 21:41

[JeffC]

reading through that linked thread it is possible then to have pull back right to go up and pull back left for downshift.

from the thread..





I think you can do this by re-arranging the wiring of the 8 & 4 pin plugs on the RHS board, without any work on the LHS board as follows:

Connector A – 8 cables
1=? 2=Ground 3=? 4=? 5=? 6=Downshift (pull) 7=Upshift (push) 8=?

Remove wire connected to Pin 6 of connector A.
Remove wire connected to Pin 7 of connector A & install in Pin 6 slot of connector A
(enables upshift function for pull of RHS button only).
Note: There will be no wire in Pin 7 of connector A, effectively disabling “push” functionality of RHS button.

Connector B – 4 cables
1=Ground 2=Light Power? 3=Downshift (pull) 4=Upshift (push)

Remove wire connected to Pin 3 of connector B & connect to wire removed from Pin 6 of connector A & insulate (enables downshift function for pull of LHS button only).
Remove wire connected to Pin 4 of connector B & insulate (effectively disabling “push” functionality of LHS button).

[JeffC]

Well a PDK paddle wheel popped up on ebay the other night and luckily I was heavily fuelled with Grey Goose Vodka so I was a pushover and just hit the buy it now button, It really is about time someone invented a breathalyser system for Ebay.

anyway it came today and I fitted it tonight.

[JeffC]

FrankCayman said:

JeffC said:

Well a PDK paddle wheel popped up on ebay the other night and luckily I was heavily fuelled with Grey Goose Vodka so I was a pushover and just hit the buy it now button, It really is about time someone invented a breathalyser system for Ebay.

anyway it came today and I fitted it tonight.

Ha ha...looks great. How easy was it to fit?

I bet you will enjoy the car 10 times more with that set up. It feels more mechanical...if that makes sense?!

was easy to fit, dont think it took 5 minutes, push screwdriver into back of wheel to release the airbag, 55mm torx to undo wheel, pop the wire connectors off and remove wheel, reverse to refit.


yes looking forward to trying it out, as I said in the first post the old steering wheel was just wrong and my only gripe with this car.