How to: Retrofit Paddle Shifters on Your BMW! (EASY E90 MOD)
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2022
- Today, we're going to be completing the wiring for my M-sport steering wheel so we can start using the paddle shifters! This is a relatively easy retrofit, and just requires a couple of wires to be spliced into the main harness. Below is a great forum post with more details about doing this retrofit yourself, but I hope this video helps as well!
Helpful guide: www.e90post.com/forums/showth...
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Hey guys! Just got back and had the chance to fix this video, now you can see the final results at the end! Be sure to drop a like for me please, and thank you so much for watching :)))) Normal upload schedule resumes now!
Did you ever find out what those additional wires were for?
Thank you for updating it for future users to benefit from your video, Awesome as always!
Well done. Simple and well explained. Best regards from Portugal. 👍🏼💪🏼
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words 🙏
Awesome Vid! Can't wait for the Idrive conversion vid.
I love your video's man. Just the title , Easy E90 mod haha ! I work in the car business and most people can't even change light bulb in the car :P Let alone disambling a dashboard and all these wires :D For us it's easy ofcourse !
Was just sitting at the break table at work wondering "can I add paddle shifters to my 330i?" And that's how I got here. Looks like I have a summer project! Fantastic video!
is it a 2006?
@@spike8642 yes is is
Don't know why more people dont do it this way! Oh it’s because its complicated . I ordered burger tunning harness not worth the hassle frying your main harness save yourself the hassle I rewired 4 times watched this video probably 6 times and read the forum post and paddles don’t work but at least now I can take my airbag out with my eyes closed 🤣
If your car has already the 2 wires in pin 2 and 4 then you need coding only to enable this option. No need to run new wiring 😊
Which VO codes need to be writing on car?
And how to coding this with ncs-expert?
@@42-BMW-M572XA
Hi I’ve just bought a steering wheel with the paddles and the squib if I fit these will I still need to do this wire mod or could I code them in using a computer. Thank you
Hello there what an awesome video thanks for sharing 👍🏻 do you know buy any chance if this would work on a e91 330d
Nice job! Now do the Alpina B3 EGS Flash!
Hey i boutgh i harnesrshift from ali. Which is working good, but i also has the same issue, it shift the opposite. Can i swap the cables under the steering wheel? Cause i have factory clips under the consol.
Would this be the same process for an e60?
Yo bro, i have question regarding gearshifts paddles work like a charm but only in DS mode. My car is 325xi and i had also yellow cables in steering clumn switch center so i unplagged them and connected directly to X10809 and X10808.
hello, did you solve this problem? on my car it only works in DS mode
Is e70 2008 similar installation? Thanks
Did you ever figure out what the yellow and yellow/black wires in the connector at the steering wheel do? They seem so promising.
I think these are the sport mode and PRND lights. I bought this retrofit set and my sport mode doesn’t work anymore and the lights of PRND don’t work. When i remove the Y retrofit cable under the shifter and connect it back to the old cable the Sport mode does work again and the lights are back. So i cannot use paddle shifters and sport mode.
@AN3CCAHNPO so if i understand this correct, if i do this mod i WILL have paddles but WILL NOT habe sport mode from the gear lever and the lights wont illuminate?
What are the color of thr harness downat the gear plz
will this work on a 320d e90 2006??
Hi! where can you buy an adapter?
aloha l ami bravo cool
une idée pour faire la même chose sur mon x5 E 70 ?
Can you do the same thing on the e60?
Hi, did you have to adjust anything in the steering wheel wiring or just the slip ring to gearbox will make it work?
Good question
Yo dope ass video! I wouldnt even go Idrive I would just get an f30 style touch screen. Also I been wanting to know if this was possible on the 2007 328i e90 sedan??? I want to do it so bad and it looks like you used a similar model. Also I do have sport model with triptonic shifter.
Yeah you can do it for sure! Just need the steering wheel with paddles, and the wires to add it in!
hey i have a question, can I just buy a M3 steering wheel with paddles, the wiring kit. and thats it? or do i actually have to get the buttons from a non M steering wheel to make it work???
Should be plug and play
Just tried this it did not work the yellow wires are for the steering wheel buttons as cut them and no power going to the buttons and not illuminating
How does it sound?
What year is this car
I tried this but in my car does not work... on the forum i saw that you should wire the paddle directly to the black steering wheel harness inside the wheel, should i try that?
Did you ever get yours fixed? I'm having the same issue
Update: got mine working!! The answer is yes, you need to directly wire the paddles like the forum says, if you still need help lmk
hello, thanks for the videos.
I have a 2009 model e 60 520 d LCI.
I bought an m tech steering wheel in the making of paddles
I connected the push and pull 3-wire paddles to pin 11 and ground
the paddles upshift, but when you choose to downshift, they don't downshift, on the contrary.
that is, the gears increase in push and pull. Can you provide information on how to solve this issue?
sorry but why did you swap the wiper buttons and clockring too ? i dont get it. From Brazil.
Because the old wiper buttons are from a e90, and that doenst have a back wiper
Hi there,
I just bought a 2009 328i coupe that comes with paddles. however though i just noticed that when I use the right paddle it goes up in gear as it is suppoused to but when i put use the left paddle it goes uo in gear as well.... any assistnace/ help would be greatly appreciated :( Do you think it could be something wrong with the wiring? or is there a configuration for it ? thank you.
Hey there, both paddles operate the same: pull back to go up a gear, push it forward to go down a gear. Hope that helps!
@@TheBimmerBarn yeah it does help! I saw that on a forum so I have it figured it out! Seems it is like this with the is model, newer models is right paddle shifts up, left shift down. Thanks for responding regardless!
So for install the paddles need to buy a new steering wheel?
If you have M-sport steering wheel already, I think you can just buy the paddles and attach them. Non-sport wheel never came with paddles, so you'd need the whole steering wheel. Great question thanks for watching!
Would this be why I just bought one and the paddle shifters don't work
yes
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2 questions...
1,Where do those 2 wires go to that you had to replace and
2,why replace wipers etc on the clock slring.
Iam about to tackle this job
*BUT YOUR CAR IS FULL OF CHECK ENGINE LIGHT*
Can this be done on a manual 6spd
Sure, but the wires from the paddles would have nothing to attach to, unless you wire them up to something no transmission related I guess!
@@TheBimmerBarn paddle shifters… on a MANUAL 6spd?