Apologies if you've had this answered elsewhere, but it is basically as simple as that! The connector in the steering wheel is identical so it's plug-and-play.
I got fed up of our A4 '16-plate not having the extra buttons and the wheel having bad some marks on it (looked like the previous owner got a bit hungry). So I found a replacement from eBay with the buttons. For reference my car is a "Sport" with no Tech Pack and has the grayscale DIS.
Before it looked like this:
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eBay wheel:
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I then took a trip to my local Audi dealer to have the wheel fitted because:
a) The car was in for a minor service anyway!
b) It meant I didn't have to faff about taking an airbag off that I'd rather not do myself.
c) They were happy to do it for a reasonable labour charge (something like 30 mins).
Interestingly, they told me the bolt for the steering wheel is actually a stretch bolt and should be replaced, it was only ~£6 so I thought it was better to be safe than sorry...
All fitted!
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As
@jds_sg alluded to - I did get a call from them saying that some of the buttons appeared to not work, but this turned out to just be the '*' favourites button, the rest of the functionality worked perfectly. Not only do you get the skip track buttons that I missed so much from my A5, but you also get access to things like the favourites menu for the phone! This saves a mahooosive amount of scrolling when you want to call someone!
No coding required!
There's a video from someone who offers these retrofits, showing the features you gain:
It bothered me that there was a button I couldn't use (need moar functions!!!
), so to get the '*' button working I decided that I'd take a gamble on an OBDEleven Next-Gen (
SuperExpensiveEdition) device as their app suggested you could enable the required MMI menu:
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Turns out that this works great and now
all of my buttons work as intended! I then spaffed my remaining OBDEleven credits on silly things like needle-sweep.
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