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The old steering wheel has paddles, too. The picture angle is not good. The buttons and functions for the two steering wheels are the same. The two are from cars equal year (2010). The three spoke steering wheel is from w207. I have doubts about connectors.
2016 E350 4Matic wagon, 2019 Ford Expedition, 2019 Chevy Bolt EV
a same year 207 and 212's wheels /probably/ have compatible controls. I've not dug into the WIS to look, but I bet all those buttons go to a little processor on the board inside the wheel, which digitally encodes them and sends messages over a CAN bus or something.
2016 E350 4Matic wagon, 2019 Ford Expedition, 2019 Chevy Bolt EV
the complication is, one is an E 'coupe', and the other a E 'sedan'. the coupes are W207 which are more closely related to the C class cars rather than the W212 sedan/wagon chassis
2016 E350 4Matic wagon, 2019 Ford Expedition, 2019 Chevy Bolt EV
and yes, I pulled up a random W212, the early E350 tmodel (wagon) 212.256 with engine M272, and indeed, the steering wheel control module talks to the front SAM via CAN B and to the Vehicle Floor Chassis CAN distribution via CAN E, so the odds are pretty good of various modules needing coding to mate a different steering wheel with them.
I have seen one of forum members swapped his steering wheel to W206's. So, if it works this swap should work too
I had changed mine too when I had a prefacelift model as well but it was back in 2012 as I recall
Does anyone can explain me how the paddle shifters work. I can activate the direct gear shifting with the left paddle only and deactivate it by holding down the right paddle. Does it normal to cannot activate it with the right paddle and cannot deactivate it when hold down the left? Other than that shifting down with left and up with right works as I expect.
2016 E350 4Matic wagon, 2019 Ford Expedition, 2019 Chevy Bolt EV
on my 2016 E350, you can activate it by tapping either paddle, shifting up or down from the gear you're currently in. if you don't shift for some number of minutes, or if the RPM gets too far out of hand for the gear you're in, it automatically reverts to full automatic.
Here I watch a video for w204 steering wheel retrofit and at the 9:01 it is showed that you cannot go higher from D with the right paddle. So may be that a usual behavior for the early w212, too.
2016 E350 4Matic wagon, 2019 Ford Expedition, 2019 Chevy Bolt EV
At least in "E" econo mode, D will indeed default to being in the highest 'safe' gear at a given speed, cruising at ridiculously low RPMs, like right around 1000 rpm, so I guess it makes sense it wouldn't let you manually shift into an even higher gear.
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