Upgrading the Audi A4 B8 Steering Wheel to a flat bottom B8.5 one.

In this video I take you through my process to upgrade my Audi A4 Sline B8’s steering wheel to the much nicer looking B8.5 flat bottom wheel.
The parts I used are listed below and they are direct plug and play with my 2011 A4 B8 Quattro Sline Avant. The wheel came off a Q5 and the airbag I bought new from an OS supplier through eBay.
Please do your own research as some of the airbag plugs and wiring do differ. In my case my old airbag to suit the odd shaped steering wheel from the A4 B8 Sline and new airbag for the B8.5 circular design were identical and the new airbag plugged right on without adaptations or wiring changes and there were no subsequent engine lights or fault codes present after the install.
Airbag: 8R0880201Q
Wheel: 8R0419091AP

[@phildawe7172]

flat bottom wheel looks slick, MD

[@MichaelDrowleyCars]

Thanks Phil! It seriously lifts the car

[@hov2276]

i have a 2012 audi a4 b8 quattro it has the normal wheeel if i take it out will the b8.5 one fit on mine like the rounder one?

[@xvklz]

I plan on doing this to my b8 in the future do I need to check my airbag number before buying one of these? So they match model number

[@MichaelDrowleyCars]

You need to see if your steering wheel has single stage or dual stage airbag first. Mine was original s line steering wheel with tip tronic so had the newer stage 2 airbag and same part number with just an earlier last letter. New circular airbag had same number for the first 9 digits and was a direct replacement and thankfully no fault codes.

[@MichaelDrowleyCars]

My old wheel airbag 2 stage - 8K0 880 201 E, new one was 8R0 880 201 Q. So correction to the above was second letter of part number was also different - K in old airbag part number to R in the new airbag pn. Hope that helps mate

[@xvklz]

@@MichaelDrowleyCarsthank you