F30/F31/F32/F33 Shift Paddles Retrofit

Originally Posted by simonchs

yes, a forum in mainland China, tankren and some guys study coding in there.
and a guy showed the photo with M performance steering wheel with shift paddles installed, but he's doing modding business and won't share how to do certainly.

Ahh yes, another individual protecting their commercial interests...

Originally Posted by simonchs

yes, a forum in mainland China, tankren and some guys study coding in there.
and a guy showed the photo with M performance steering wheel with shift paddles installed, but he's doing modding business and won't share how to do certainly.

Have you retrofitted the steering wheel? M sport type?

Originally Posted by tankren

Have you retrofitted the steering wheel? M sport type?

not yet, I just test the paddles everytime by the method which illustrated on the attached photo

I want to confirm the paddles are working before place order to steering wheel

Originally Posted by simonchs

not yet, I just test the paddles everytime by the method which illustrated on the attached photo

I want to confirm the paddles are working before place order to steering wheel

Have you done the wire harness to the gear selector switch?

Check the connections, use a multimeter. At the gear selector check the resistance when pressing on the paddles, measure between each other of the wires coming from the paddles to the gear selector harness. When pressing on the paddles and measuring on the wires there should be 1K ohm when you press + paddle, and there should be 0,33K ohm when you press - paddle and when no paddle is pressed there should be 3,2K ohm.

hi kitercarlos, got any luck on the paddles retrofit?

Originally Posted by simonchs

hi kitercarlos, got any luck on the paddles retrofit?

Not, but I've done some progress, now I know that the wires from the paddles do not end in the switch selector box, they should end in some module lille JBE, CAS4, but I have no idea. I need someone tell me where they end.

I have a clue, but I not sure, there are a guy that he wrote this
"I have a 2011 335d. After quite a bit of comparison to oem equipped and not equipped 2XA cars, and after extensive extensive examination of wiring schematics as it pertains to the paddles/slip ring/steering module/JBE/tranny module, there are 2 important wires missing which go from the output of the JBE (junction box, which is behind glove compartment) into a harness plug and then to the transmission module. Input side wiring coming from JBE into this plug is missing even though output side wiring going to tranny is present."


Any help will be welcome

I'm trying to retrofit peddle shift switch on my F10 but I could not find information of wire diagram and modules with pin number.

Can somebody help me for this trying?
What should I add the missed signal wire on steering wheel and switch modules?

Thank you in advance.

after compare the harness with M135i, found that the 118i missed one pin from steering wheel slip ring to FEM module (proved shift paddles signal), and finally the shift paddles retrofit is success!!

all you need are:
- make your DIY cable from slip ring to FEM module
- VO change 205 to 2TB and CODE the SVT tree
- get the new connecting cable inside the steering wheel with 2 paddles plugs
- and, of cos., a pair of shift paddles and a new steering wheel which able to place the paddles


pin details from slip ring to FEM will be posted after I consolidate all info.

delete.
congratulations to your retrofit.

Originally Posted by simonchs

after compare the harness with M135i, found that the 118i missed one pin from steering wheel slip ring to FEM module (proved shift paddles signal), and finally the shift paddles retrofit is success!!

all you need are:
- make your DIY cable from slip ring to FEM module
- VO change 205 to 2TB and CODE the SVT tree
- get the new connecting cable inside the steering wheel with 2 paddles plugs
- and, of cos., a pair of shift paddles and a new steering wheel which able to place the paddles


pin details from slip ring to FEM will be posted after I consolidate all info.

Hi Simonchs,

I only need to know the wiring diagram from the steering wheel slip ring to FEM cos I did all the work before so, can you tell me which pins are and plug is? Did you some photos?

Tnank you in advance

Hey Simonchs, congrats for finally cracking it!
Do you think you can post some pictures of the process for us, please?
I'm really interested in performing this retrofit on my car as well!