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Narpy wrote:
Just to bring this up to date then as much seems to have happened of late and the info has become spread out over a lot of posts and to avoid reading the whole thread:
1. These little circuit boards, when bought, will allow a D4 steering wheel to be used in a D3 and to do that you only need to buy the £107 board. Does that sound right?
2. Next, if you want to use a flappy paddle gear selector ( auto only ), you need the D4 steering wheel, £107 board and the £104 add on that works by radio trickery. Does that sound right?
3. Lastly, there's a heated wheel option for those with heated D4 steering wheels and for that to work too, you'll also need the £25 add on. Is that right?
Have I understood that correctly?????
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13th Aug 2014 8:24 pm
Jay666d
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ids wrote:
Whilst it may look like the factory nav, its actually a 7" touchscreen connected to my CarPC. I used a broken one, removed the guts and replaced them with a decent screen.
Its running Windows 8.1, with Centrafuse (centrafuse.com) and a k8055 plug in project board. I use it to take analog/digital in/outs from/to the car....... one being from the steering wheel controls.
Ids
It's very cool... 8)
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13th Aug 2014 8:26 pm
JDB
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Chaps - I think the principal is that it is modular. ie you can just have:
- The D4 steering wheel and its controls.
- The D4 steering wheel and paddle shift - which both the BBS solution and the paddles can be added later.
- All of the above with Adaptive cruise and / or a heated option.
If the D4 steering wheel is not heated, you don't need the adapter.
So if you have a heated D4 wheel with paddles you need all the bits, if you just have a D4 wheel then just the one adapter.
The only difference in the D3 and D4 clock springs is that the D4 one comes as standard with the heated connection.
14th Aug 2014 5:24 am
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IDS I don't want to hijack this thread but would be interested in more details on your mod (incar PC)
Could you put some details in another thread on your upgrade
ie functionality of mod ,what is required to complete,does the 4x4 screen still display or is this independent of the old system
Does the new D4 switch upgrade allow you anymore control over your screen?
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14th Aug 2014 8:47 am
Jay666d
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Yeah IDS, I'm with Wildrover on that! 07 Land Rover Discovery III HSE
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14th Aug 2014 8:52 am
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Wildrover & Jay666d
Thanks for your consideration and courtesy chaps.
In the same mind if ids does make such a thread he is most welcome to pop in a post with a link to it here.
Narpy:
If you are still confused, you were correct with your first 3, but not the 4th
To clear up any possible remaining confusion:
Normal Cruise control, which is what the D3's and most RRS's would have, only requires the buttons on the front of the switches that are included in the standard £107 conversion boards.
However some RRS's (standard on Supercharged versions i believe) optionally have a more advanced form of Cruise Control called Adaptive Cruise Control or ACC for short.
This uses a Radar sensor mounted in the front of the vehicle to keep a set distance from the vehicle in front. When and where fitted, the steering wheel switches for ACC equiped vehicles have an additional two buttons to increase or decrease the distance mounted on the left side of the steering wheel on the later 2010 wheel switches, for which we do supply an additional ACC sub kit.
But clearly no D3 owner would need this.
I hope this helps
Kyle:
Many thanks for your most kind words.
Pretty much all of what we do here is pioneering stuff that goes well beyond regular and normal.
We are bound to need to do some tweaking and de wrinkling.
Even although we field tested the Paddle shifting stuff with ids, which went well, before releasing it, clearly Baben has a problem we will sort out with him with but just a little patience team work and understanding
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14th Aug 2014 3:46 pm
Hoss
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So for D3 manual with standard cruise phone & radio controls non heated, I would need the D4 wheel + the £107 board ???D4 XS
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17th Aug 2014 11:49 am
Jay666d
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17th Aug 2014 11:52 am
radders89
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Anyone know how to get the C2658 connector off from under the centre console?
Just trying to fit the flappy paddle connections.....
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17th Aug 2014 1:03 pm
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Hoss:
Just for completeness, as well as a wheel you also need the 2 switch packs.
But if you are thinking of the wheel offered by Aljo on the Dick Turpin thread, you would have these anyway.
Radders89:
It's one of those connectors that has a rotating locking mechanism with teeth on either side
You need to press the barb in at the middle of the back of the connector and while hoding it in pull down the bar, which via the teeth on each side ejects the connectors plug out of the socket
17th Aug 2014 4:44 pm
radders89
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Colin,
Sorry to be a pain but I'm still struggling to get the connector off. Any chance you could explain again for dummies like me..... MY15 D4 SDV6 HSE Corris Grey - Gone
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17th Aug 2014 7:06 pm
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BBS SPY wrote:
But if you are thinking of the wheel offered by Aljo on the Dick Turpin thread :
Not sure which way to take that colin
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17th Aug 2014 8:28 pm
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Can't believe how much better it feels to have my buttons the right way round again and cruise working . Although I keep trying to turn the volume up with mode and switching to fm/cd etc lol.
Well done Colin!!!
18th Aug 2014 2:08 am
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. Although I keep trying to turn the volume up with mode and switching to fm/cd etc lol.
