Steering wheel controls - stereo volume?

[yeti]

I have the full gamut of controls on my wheel, crusie on the right (yay!), phone nonsense on the left (boo!).

I don't use a phone in tha car, neither do I want blueteeth or need any of that assorted nonsense though some chump paid money for it back in the day. There are therefore a set of very likely looking buttons which currently operate volume control and so on, I assume of the phone.

Can these be converted theoretically to control the volume of the stereo? And flick between CD/radio and skip track etc? You know, like a ten grand hatchback would have!

Seems odd in such a car to have to reach over for the stereo control, would rather keep my eyes on the road especially in traffic.

A job for a very skilled electrician or a competent mechanic with a soldering iron in theory..?

[yeti]

MichaelV8V said:

On later models (2009+?) they do control the volume of the sound system, and the slider on the back of the wheel moves from track to track

Excellent - I will see if the BR fellas have an idea how to activate it!! It just looked like it should do that, but didn't

[yeti]

Murph7355 said:

I'm sure someone like Paralight could fix it at a cost.

Good point - might be worth dropping James a mail and seeing what he can do. He's tinkering with DAB radios for AMs at the moment!