It was a pretty straight forward install for guys who don't have multifunction on his steering wheel (like me).

1. Kill the battery. Leave for 10 minutes. I just immediately work on my car without even waiting.

2. Stick a small flathead screwdriver in the hole on the below on the steering wheel housing and feel for a metal bar running across. Push it upward and feel the spring tension against it. The airbag should pop out after this. If not, then you are pressing against the wrong thing.

3. Unplug all the wires inside. Use a T-55 torx bit to remove the center screw.

4. Replace the steering wheel. Make sure you have it on straight. On my first try, I found out my steering wheel is one "click" to the right, so the car is driving straight, but the steering wheel is about 15-degrees off to the right.

5. Put all the wiring back. Don't forget to plug everything back in. For the middle wire, make sure it's out of the way. For me, I forgot to put the wire back in its middle clip, so it's actually sitting on the metal hook and when I pushed the airbag back into position, the airbag won't click back into place and it became a PITA to try to take it out again since the spring mechanism doesn't work anymore. Lucky I had one of them nylon prybars meant for interior panels so I could slip it in between the stuck airbag and the steering surround to cajole it out.

Here's the end product:

 

Great job, this is something I'm thinking of doing on my 2010 Turbo because frankly I hate the stock PDK shifter buttons. Hope you don't mind I have a few questions:

1. How do you control the instrument display, are there controls on the back? (you seem to have one more stalk than I have)

2. Where did you buy the wheel / how much?

 

Seems like something is missing.

How did you get the bottom control stalk installed (in pic reads "up/down")?

This requires a lot more than just taking off the steering wheel.

 

Sounds like he did not have multi function steering wheel meaning he had the stalk from the factory on his car. Tech art paddle might be the way to go for us multi function steering wheels.

 

Yes, sounded too easy. If that were the case, I'd serious consider. I have the multi-function wheel on my PT so I wonder what I'd need to do this conversion right with my car.

 

The clue was in his original post:

It was a pretty straight forward install for guys who don't have multifunction on his steering wheel (like me).

 

I went to purchase a 2012 pan last month and it came with the paddle shift wheel....I requested to have the multifunction wheel and they said it was just an hour worth of labor to swap it out.

The display is controlled by that **** at the right and you tab up and down. I wanted volume control which this wheel doesn't have. To each their own. The paddles are a lot easier to use though.

 

Correct. I understand that if you have multifunction, you will need to go back to the dealer and have them install that right stalk thingamagic and reprogram it to connect with the center display. I would not have done it if that's the case. Too much trouble for what it's worth.

But since I don't have it, the whole job only takes 15 minutes, maybe less. I had to redo it because of the stuck wiring and the second time round took less than 5 minutes.

I got it used off ebay for $425. But it was the wrong color, so I got it rewrapped in black leather when it arrived and have the upholstery shop to spray the back plastic casing to black. Looks and feels better than OEM when it's done since I am using the best nappa leather.

 

Great to know that, I always thought reprogramming is a must! Thanks!