SMG paddles
 

Is the mod difficult? Secondly what time should it take to complete?

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Do a search. Lots of info on this.

Thanks. Spot the newby...

Mr. Paddle-shift
 

Check out:

http://www.mrpaddleshift.com/

Mr paddleshift is alot of money, but his info is priceless on which wheel to use. Goto the home page and look at paddleshift diy. The most difficult part is wiring it up by yourself. Should take no more than three hours....

There is no reason to spend the money on Mr. Paddleshift's kit, just follow this guide:

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showpos...8&postcount=61

Sure, Mr Paddleshift is not cheap... but does Toorak have a SMG M steering wheel already? That will cost you (in most cases) - once you have that and the adapter your pretty much set. The harness is childs play... you don't need MR P's kit. BTW: The paddles are the best mod I have ever done to my X!

Check out Sudesh.posts
He has done the mod and has a very easy little wiring harness post.
I did it and it looks good, works great.

Off the four wires that are near the right side of the shiftknob, under the black plastic cover for PRND. I believe one is blue one is purple and the other two I'm not sure of, anyway which two wires are the shift up and shift down for the two wires coming from the steering wheel?

so the two new wires are attached to the back of the new steering ring and then wired to the two tiptronic wires? thats it? Can u check the tiptronic up and down shift wires while the car is not moving?

To explain a bit better. On end of the SMG wiring has 4 ends, the other is 2 in a plug. The plug goes into the slip ring, then, trace the wire down the steering colum under the dash and around to the gearbox.
There you remove 2 centre wires that go into the plug, thats attached to the side of the gear selector. You put 2 wires from the end of the SMG kit into the slots were you removed the 2 gearbox wires, then you put the 2 gear box wires into the extra 2 wires at the end of the SMG kit.

Take a look here might help you a bit more
http://www.xoutpost.com/x5-e53-forum/...?highlight=smg

When you do this, does it deactivate the use of the floor shifter (Manual mode)?? Also, do you activate the paddles by placing the floor shifter into "M" like I do now?? Is Sport mode still available??

Everything still works exactially the same with the added bonus of steering wheel shift. You slide the shifter over like you would to select manual mode and then if you press either + or - on the paddles you can select your gears. Just works the same as the shifter.

Just saying: If you pull those two center wires out(leaving them unconnected from the shifter plug) than how can they work for the shifter if the circuit is transferred to the paddleshift?

As I said above the wires you pull out then connect to end on SMG wiring.

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