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Hello - so I got an R8 wheel with the newer smaller airbag. I have a 2016 NA PFL S3. The wheel has ADS and Start/Stop buttons, but I’m less concerned about those than I am getting the multifunction buttons, horn, and paddles to work.. The wheel part number is: 4S0419091E and it seems it’s also the same wheel the 2015+ TTRS got.
Available pins in my S3 clockspring are 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10.
The harness it came with is ok airbag wise as it uses pins 3 and 4 for the black and green wires respectively, and vag com doesn’t throw up any airbag errors and connects to that channel fine.
The rest is a mess though.
The buttons don’t work, the paddles don’t work, the horn doesn’t work, the buttons don’t light up and vag com throws up a communication error for the steering wheel.
The new harness I have has a wire for pin 1 (grey), pin 2 (white) and obviously my clockspring doesn’t have pins for those anyway so I’m hoping those are the Start/Stop and ADS buttons.
As for pins 7-12 on the old harness vs new:
Old: 7 brown, 8 blue, 9 purple, 10 pinkish, 11 & 12 not used.
New: 7 not used, 8 brown, 9 purple, 10 orange, 11 grey with red stripe, 12 not used.
Has anyone with a PFL (or FL for that matter) had any experience with these new steering wheels to know how to correctly wire up the new clockspring connector to work? My assumption is to move each of the 4 wires down one for pins 7-12, but I’d rather check before messing anything up. Seems like it’ll be a ground/earth issue with pin 7, but it’s anyone’s guess what the rest of the wires are doing. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
Available pins in my S3 clockspring are 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10.
The harness it came with is ok airbag wise as it uses pins 3 and 4 for the black and green wires respectively, and vag com doesn’t throw up any airbag errors and connects to that channel fine.
The rest is a mess though.
The buttons don’t work, the paddles don’t work, the horn doesn’t work, the buttons don’t light up and vag com throws up a communication error for the steering wheel.
The new harness I have has a wire for pin 1 (grey), pin 2 (white) and obviously my clockspring doesn’t have pins for those anyway so I’m hoping those are the Start/Stop and ADS buttons.
As for pins 7-12 on the old harness vs new:
Old: 7 brown, 8 blue, 9 purple, 10 pinkish, 11 & 12 not used.
New: 7 not used, 8 brown, 9 purple, 10 orange, 11 grey with red stripe, 12 not used.
Has anyone with a PFL (or FL for that matter) had any experience with these new steering wheels to know how to correctly wire up the new clockspring connector to work? My assumption is to move each of the 4 wires down one for pins 7-12, but I’d rather check before messing anything up. Seems like it’ll be a ground/earth issue with pin 7, but it’s anyone’s guess what the rest of the wires are doing. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
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