Retro Fit HEATED Wheel

[andmaxyduncy]

Hi Everyone - I have seen a few people ask whether a flat bottomed heated wheel exists for an A3 8Y and managed to find one. An after market one which has used the favourite button as the switch on the wheel. I have asked the supplier repeatedly for instructions and all I have to go on is "I need a clock spring with wheel heating capacity" - not the most useful but they have offered a refund so this is one last attempt to make some progress before giving up. Apparently no additional power supply is required. Given that I have a Golf MK8 GTE which has heated wheel and this is effectively the same car this can't be too difficult to try and track down the right spring??? Finding someone prepared to do it is another matter as these cars are so new
Does anyone out there have any advice before throwing in the towel - it doesn't help that the part has different names -clockspring, slipring, gossamer. I have taken photos which include the sticker on the wheel I found. The leads embedded into wheel have two sockets - one with 4 connectors and the other which looks like power with +ve and -ve

 

[NHN]

It will be based on pr codes in etka that determines which slip ring, module you need for this.

Also it would come down to if the coding will be possible allowed, newer cars are becoming increasingly locked down by license activation for features, thats not to say this cant be enabled.

You may end up being the guinea for this one.

I could probably figure which unit it requires, again its no guarantee it will work, but we take our risks, nothings impossible, but I do believe it can be done.

 

[andmaxyduncy]

It will be based on pr codes in etka that determines which slip ring, module you need for this.

Also it would come down to if the coding will be possible allowed, newer cars are becoming increasingly locked down by license activation for features, thats not to say this cant be enabled.

You may end up being the guinea for this one.

I could probably figure which unit it requires, again its no guarantee it will work, but we take our risks, nothings impossible, but I do believe it can be done.

I'm prepared to be a guinnea pig!

 

[Garrett 69]

 

[thomaslewis]

@andmaxyduncy did you ever figure this out?

 

[andmaxyduncy]

@andmaxyduncy did you ever figure this out?

Hi there - very frustrating as it is a minefield of parts numbers and lateral thinking - I have been told that it needs new stalks and a slipring with heated wheel wiring. As Audi don't offer this on the A3 8Y it means looking at either other models like the Q3 (but their stalks and slipring donlt look like they will fit) which leaves other makes within the VAG group. This heated wheel retrofit challenge is a well trodden path as on the Skoda owners forum there are a few posts about trying to pull this off - plenty of chatter but thin on the ground for which parts and how to do it. Lots of posts about get a pairs of gloves etc. I have a mk8 golf and the heated wheel and seats came as standard and are superb so I am really being motivated by trying to correct the "cost engineering" Audi have made to cut corners. I have been told that a stalk from a Skoda Kodiaq or Karoq might fit but am waiting to see close up pictures. Even assuming that the stalks fit into the audi noone knows what the MMI will do when the wheel it is switched on as you can't write new code to have it flash up "heated wheel on" and "heated wheel off". This leads me to think the only workable solution is effectively to track down the wiring on the wheel to determine which wires feed the heating element and to pair them with the circuit for the heated (front) seat - effecively meaning that when the seats and being heated so is the wheel and they can't be isolated. Right now that is the prize!

 

[andmaxyduncy]

@andmaxyduncy did you ever figure this out?

Hi Thomas.
By way of an update I now have my flat bottomed wheel with heating fitted in my 8y!
got there in the end with help from a guy in Denmark who has paired a set of stalks with the right slip ring. It just needed a small harness for the power and connecting to the fuse box