Busy few days despite the heat... which is annoying
(I am typically British!)
Finished cleaning the inside of the car...
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All the dustiness from the bodywork is gone and I refitted the passenger seat (still chuffing heavy!!)... I left the drivers seat out so I had more room to sort the DSG wiring out...
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Attaching the CAN wires and power wires for the selector... I am waiting on another fuse block to replace the 2 way one I use for WMI and inline fuel pump so I can fuse the selector power too
On the subject of wiring... here is my current setup... this was derived from the one
@desertstorm originally put together for his TT track car but I have adapted it a bit for my setup..
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I have updated this to reflect where I connected things in my car... also as I have retro fitted a MFSW I have added CAN from the module too so the paddles will work... alternatively you can rewire them as switches and use inputs to IECU instead...
The selector wiring is pretty straight forward...
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The illumination control wire in case its not obvious where that goes connects to the larger plug of the light switch
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...which is labelled '17' and corresponds to the 58d pin on the switch
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With the selector wiring done it was time to move onto the gearbox wiring... I had put together a power distro/relay board to handle all this...
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This will handle the gearbox main power and power to the various relays I have in place so reverse light (as no switch on a DSG box), starter inhibitor (ideally needed on an auto), gearbox switched power and the two extra relays I use for the brake servo vacuum pump and turbo coolant after run pump...
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Power and earth is feed from the 12v battery point I have fitted previously for the battery relocation to the boot and the factory earth point on the chassis leg
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A lot neater than having the relays just floating about...
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Once that lot was done I ran the loom up past the ECU... I needed to connect a few wires there first... mainly the reverse light output (switched earth), starter inhibitor (switched earth), vacuum pump output (switched earth) and VSS signal to the cluster as the DSG has no speed sensor...
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Once that lot was done I ran the remainder of the wires through to the cabin... this was the CAN wires, K-Line wire and speedo signal wire...
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With all those hooked up I put the interior back together and refitted the drivers seat...
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I need to address the red power cable for the distro though... really messing with my OCD!!
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With the car drivable again I took her up to Bills where my box has been residing....
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...and connected it up using an extension test lead I made up...
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Then tested everything... clumsily... with one hand...
All works
There are a couple of fault codes in the box around missing messages but this is normal for this type of retro fit...
Next job is to clean up the box, swap out the mechatronic cover for the new one I have and I guess its then just a case of slinging it into the car