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YOUR RESEARCHIf I could find that designer at Porsche!.
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Now I would like to make the old Tip + - buttons Vol & station change through the radio if there's a slip ring with the extra spare connectors?.
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@John honestly making them is the easy part, its fitting them that made me change my under garment.
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Well one thing that has always really wound me up is the idiot at Porsche that they allowed to design the wheel for the 993 and 996 Tip.
Its stupid who would drive with there hands at 3:40 instead of 1:50 and with there thumbs wrapped around the wheel?
So I decided to fix it myself, I bought a couple of intermittent switches from Maplins and made some paddles out of some nylon sheet.
Took her for a blast and now she has a sports wheel worthy of a sports car.
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Now I can have my hands here:
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Not all the way down here:
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Now I would like to make the old Tip + - buttons Vol & station change through the radio if there's a slip ring with the extra spare connectors?.
But I think not?.
As promised
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I have some torx to replace that ugly possi.
These switches
Switch
A sheet of nylon for the paddles and Alu metal for various brackets.
@John honestly making them is the easy part, its fitting them that made me change my under garment.
Something that I haven't mentioned here is that I strongly believe the Merc amg paddles would fit. they are about £80.
The wiring could'nt be simpler.
In the back of the wheel there are three crimp connectors (LOL shame on you Porsche)
1 + shift up
2 - shift down
3 = GND.
Just bell out between the wires and the metal plate in the wheel eg:GND
And the press up or down on the buttons to work out which is up and which is down
Now I wish they had got someone to design a sports wheel I have seen better.
Or maybe this.
That is ingenious! How does it work though - top of the paddle up bottom of the paddle down? Same on both sides?
Well done! I'm sure there would be a huge market for this!
This idiot at Porsche you refer to... he was part of a team that invented 'manumatic' transmission - eventually known as 'Tiptrionic' and trademarked by Porsche (yep, yet another Porsche invention) An automatic transmission that could be controlled at the touch of a button by the driver. I assume he was quite clever and not really an idiot. [
] Nothing before had set a precedent for him. He had nothing previous to draw upon. People drove cars with a steering wheel and the gear shift being the only natural inputs for the driver. He obviously thought, the best way for a driver to simply control a quick up and down shift of the gears was via the steering wheel which he would already have in his hands.
He was doing this 15 years before F1 came up with the flappy paddle.
Your solution is very well executed and could be very marketable. But remember, you have the privilege of hindsight and are now able to borrow ideas from existing technology.
Fritz at Porsche didn't.
I think you should set-up a business selling your solution. I can imagine there'll be a lot of demand for it.
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Good idea.
Looks great too.
Honestly, if I had a tiptronic I'd be driving over to you now and having it fitted.
Get a pack set up and put it up for sale, it's great. Well done!
As long as you can physically mount them there is no reason they or any other paddle would not work.
I had the resources to custom build mine and that was the only reason I did.
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