SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: Retrofitting Pedalshift AMG steering wheel
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2004 SL55, 2005 E500 Wagon
Pedal?
The only pedal-shift transmissions I know about are on motorcycles. If you mean paddle, the SL55/65s use little buttons on the back of the steering wheel, not paddles like Ferarri or BMW.
All the little buttons on the back of the steering wheel do is exactly the same thing as pushing the console shifter to the right or the left. If you had a service person who was comfortable messing with the wiring harnesses, you could fool the transmission into thinking that, when you pressed a wheel button, you were moving the console shift lever.
Jim
All the little buttons on the back of the steering wheel do is exactly the same thing as pushing the console shifter to the right or the left. If you had a service person who was comfortable messing with the wiring harnesses, you could fool the transmission into thinking that, when you pressed a wheel button, you were moving the console shift lever.
Jim
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Originally Posted by CASL55
The only pedal-shift transmissions I know about are on motorcycles. If you mean paddle, the SL55/65s use little buttons on the back of the steering wheel, not paddles like Ferarri or BMW.
All the little buttons on the back of the steering wheel do is exactly the same thing as pushing the console shifter to the right or the left. If you had a service person who was comfortable messing with the wiring harnesses, you could fool the transmission into thinking that, when you pressed a wheel button, you were moving the console shift lever.
Jim
All the little buttons on the back of the steering wheel do is exactly the same thing as pushing the console shifter to the right or the left. If you had a service person who was comfortable messing with the wiring harnesses, you could fool the transmission into thinking that, when you pressed a wheel button, you were moving the console shift lever.
Jim
My car is a 2004 600, so it does not have anything behind the steering wheel.
I wanted to know that *if* you swapped the steering wheels with an AMG steering, and reflashed the transmission ECU; would that allow the buttons/pedals to work?
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Originally Posted by Auraraptor
Latest 55's have pedals for shifting instead of the buttons.
I would expect the new paddles work electrically like the old buttons, though I'm not 100% sure.
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Originally Posted by CASL55
You work pedals with your feet. That's why they're called pedals (relating to a foot or footlike part.). You sure you don't mean paddles?
Jim
Jim
Originally Posted by CASL55
I would expect the new paddles work electrically like the old buttons, though I'm not 100% sure.
Jim
Jim
1. Retrofited the shift button equipped steering wheel on a car without the shift buttons
2. Retrofitted the shift button equipped steering wheel with the paddle based steering wheel
If 1 and 2 both work without a big problem (lots of custom wiring and splicing) I would like to get it in my car.
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I'm interested in this as well ... I haven't had much luck in finding a wiring diagram for the AMG steering wheels relative to non-AMG's, but my thought is that it should be possible. And I would go a step further and say that it "shouldn't be hard", once the right technicians got hold of the right wiring diagram. I would not be surprised if one were to find out that the connectors and wiring harness already have provisions for the shift buttons.
I believe the new 2006 SL sport package for the SL500 and SL600 includes the shift buttons on the wheel?
Short story long ... what I would like to get after my CL55 lease runs out is a CL600 Sport with steering wheel shift buttons plus ECU/TCU upgrades.
I believe the new 2006 SL sport package for the SL500 and SL600 includes the shift buttons on the wheel?
Short story long ... what I would like to get after my CL55 lease runs out is a CL600 Sport with steering wheel shift buttons plus ECU/TCU upgrades.
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Originally Posted by Auraraptor
If 1 and 2 both work without a big problem...I would like to get it in my car.
Jim
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Originally Posted by Auraraptor
Yea, paddles, my bad.
Me too, but I wanted to make sure by talking to anyone who has:
1. Retrofited the shift button equipped steering wheel on a car without the shift buttons
2. Retrofitted the shift button equipped steering wheel with the paddle based steering wheel
If 1 and 2 both work without a big problem (lots of custom wiring and splicing) I would like to get it in my car.
Me too, but I wanted to make sure by talking to anyone who has:
1. Retrofited the shift button equipped steering wheel on a car without the shift buttons
2. Retrofitted the shift button equipped steering wheel with the paddle based steering wheel
If 1 and 2 both work without a big problem (lots of custom wiring and splicing) I would like to get it in my car.
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