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Originally Posted by wdimagineer
There are different base wheels depending on what features your car is equipped with. For US cars with DA and Executive, you need the wheel with the heating element and mounting for the vibration generator.
When he says vibration, he's referring to the vibration generator for blind spot and lane departure warning.
BMW's fitted with heating, vibration, or both have a control module inside the steering wheel. It's a standard part across many different chassis codes, from the F01 to the F30. On the F12/F13 M6 and the F30 M Sport (which share similar steering wheel designs) this part is a different shape with different connectors.
BMW has not released this part for ordering in the US or globally. Yet. I'm in final stages to get this released for ordering. I finally have one (which took an act of god) for a 100% complete retrofit. Without it, you will throw faults.
And as a caveat emptor, in general... don't rely on parts people just post. I realize this troll just posted about 85% of what you need to prove some stupid point that his mate beat me to this (which he didn't) but part 32307845795, the airbag, is the ECE version. You need 796 in the US. The igniters and airbag stages are different, and you probably wouldn't be protected at all in the event of an accident.
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troll what a polite insult
are you Swiss?
indeed, if you note my profile I'm in the UK so the parts are correct for me, we did one of the first SMG paddles onto tiptronic 10 years ago on road fly so this isn't new territory for us I'd rather be remembered for being first on the moon than some steering wheel change that a first year intern could do!
The module you refer to is available on TIS now and is orderable in the UK but there is atleast in Europe a difference in the harness which should be available soon. note though, atleast in Europe the parts are already being revised for 03/13 not sure why yet.
the part number for the vibration module, is 32337846021 I don't have either feature in my M5 and I can't therefore test so beware on this issue, the downside which is you loose the speed limit function, which I find useful.
Cheers,
Neil.