[k21975]

Any concern of the airbag going off when taking it out? I remember reading about other steering wheel mods where people would disconnect the battery and even discharge any stored energy in the system.

 

[k21975]

Anyone find a part number or link to a brown one, yet?

 

[k21975]

I love the fact that I can shift with paddles without throwing lever into M first, makes this mod double worth it.

Sure. Rub it in for us 'Brownies'. I'm actually wondering if a black wheel would look out of place?

 

[k21975]

show us your interior and we'll vote

I would, but I don't have my car yet. :anger: I've bought and paid for it, but now I'm trying to get it up to Boston from VA. Anyone want to take a road trip?

 

[k21975]

I'm probably going to pay around $700 from VA to MA on Uship.com, but how cool would it be for a fellow Tregger to rent a Uhaul car trailer and deliver my new Treg with their Treg! I'd pay the same!

Anyway, we are getting off topic. What about brown shoe polish on the black wheel? (I really want the paddle shifters!)

 

[k21975]

Very interesting. Maybe I'll start looking for a black wheel without an airbag. Where did you find yours?

 

[k21975]

I revisited this today in the hopes to find a brown one and I think I've located one. It has a few scuffs, but should be acceptable. I also found lots of part number info, see below...

The Touareg 7P Steering wheel is part numbers:
7P6419091 - Basic Wheel
7P6419091A - +Heat
7P6419091B - Basic Wood/Leather
7P6419091C - +Heat, +Tiptronic
7P6419091D - ???
7P6419091E - Basic Wood/Leather w/ different wood
7P6419091F - +Heat, + Tiptronic, +'R' Badge
7P6419091G - +Heat (Same as A?)
7P6419091H - +'R' Badge
7P6419091I - ???
7P6419091J - +Heat, +'R' Badge
7P6419091K - +Heat, +'R' Badge (Same as J?)

Color codes are after the part number
NGB - black/black
X0U - natural brown/black
ICS - titanium black (Added in 2013 for R-line only?)

So, ideally, I'm looking for a 7P6419091C X0U. The F would work too, but I don't need the 'R' Badge.

Also, I'm still a little unsure if the color code is X'zero'U or X'ohh'U.

 

[k21975]

This is the one I found.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=261783317752

Hopefully the scuffs are as minor as they look in the pictures. I paid about $260 USD shipped. About double what I wanted to pay, but they seem very rare and brand new the best I could find was about $1,080.

 

[k21975]

That's a good idea, thanks for the heads up. One of the scuffs they showed was on the right controls.

 

[k21975]

Just made the swap on mine. Now I have to wait for my laptop battery to charge so I can do the VCDS.

There was a lot more force than I expected to take the air bag off. Of course, I was afraid of it going off on me the whole time, so I might have been pulling like a scared pansy.

Once I got the center nut off, I tugged on the wheel to see how easy it would come off and it popped right off! Unfortunately, my sharpie was still in my pocket and I didn't mark the center spot. So, I tried to put it on right where the old one was and I thought I was fine because all the connectors had to be in a certain place... then I realized the connectors spin. Of course they spin with the wheel. Eh, I'm used to it. The handle bars on my motorcycle are not quite straight either!

 

[k21975]

Success! Of course, now I'm paranoid about my steering wheel being straight. Living in Boston, there are no flat roads, so it's tough to tell. In the Offroad menu on the Nav the steering angle seems to indicate that I got it back on pretty straight.

My interior is brown and I found the wheel on Ebay in Germany. I used Google Chrome and had it translate eBay.de so I could find it. If you look at the posts above or on the previous page, you will find links to where others found theirs. A few posts up from here (#51) I posted a list of all the different model numbers for steering wheels.

I'll post a pic later.

 

[k21975]

Photo proof. Brown interior, brown wheel w/ heat and shifters.

 

[k21975]

Steering wheel is definitely not on straight. I figured I would be ok for the weekend, but apparently the Stability control is not happy when the vehicle is going straight for a while and the steering wheel indicates that you are turning left 1 degree the whole time.

 

[k21975]

Check my post above with all the part numbers.

 

[k21975]

Seriously, I'm happy to help, but this is the third person looking for a part number when I spent a long time posting EVERY POSSIBLE PART NUMBER just 10 posts above. And it would be only 3 posts above if people would read more before posting. Even reading the responses to other people asking for part numbers would send you back up the thread a tad.

As for the heat, my vehicle had a heated wheel to begin. Adding hear would be additional wiring and parts, but I don't know what would be involved, exactly.

 

[k21975]

See below.

A few questions on how the paddles work.

1. If you are in "automatic mode" and in, say, 6th gear and want to kick it down to 5th and enter "paddle mode", do you click the "minus" just once and you are in 5th and in "paddle mode" or do you need to enter "paddle mode" by a first click and then click again to go down a gear?

Just click it once. To be honest, I use the paddles mostly for up shifting when I'm all done accelerating and the automatic is still anticipating more.

2. I'm assuming you leave the console shifter in the Automatic mode when you start using the plus and minus to enter paddle mode. How do you get back into "auto mode" while still driving?

As stated above, you can hold the + (the one on the right) or it will time out after a little while, maybe 30 sec and switch back to auto.

3. Does it auto downshift just like when using the tiptronic mode with the console shifter?

Yes, it acts just like if you were in tiptronic. The only difference is having it time out and go back to auto.

4. When at a complete stop, can you use the paddles to bump it into 2nd gear to start? I do that quit a bit with the tiptronic to avoid the short 1st gear.

Yes. Again, though, some have had different experiences, but if you can do it in tiptronic, then you can with the paddles. This would still be controlled by the time out, though, so you would need to upshift shortly before take off.

5. Does the tiptronic stop working when you change the VAG Code to activate the paddles?

No. You can use the paddles or the shifter when in tiptronic. If you use tiptronic a lot, then the paddles would be a nice addition.

I use the tiptronic a lot and don't mind using it, but thinking about the expense to change to the paddle made me think of some of these questions. Thanks.

I have a 2014 Touareg gas powered sport model in the US.
Warren