997.2 steering wheels

[Output Flange]

Chaps - a quick question.

When I bought my 997.2 I had a paddle wheel fitted to replace the crappy thing that was on there before.

I've just seen this pic on the Porsche Approved site:



where it lights up "Sport Plus" on one spoke of the wheel - should mine do the same, or is that a GTS-specific feature?

[Magic919]

There seem to be two different wheels when you look on the Design 911 site, one with launch control, one without. Suggests that you might have the one without.

[Callughan]

Seen it on turbo as well.

[mrdemon]

I think if you retro fit even if you add the Sports button software you have to have the wheel with no lights.

there are 2 pt numbers for the paddle wheel, one with lights one with out.

[Ian_UK1]

I remember reading about this on 6-Speed 2 or 3 years ago. Apparently there are 2 different versions of a control unit somewhere in the dash. If you have the earlier one (pre 2011 model year from memory, but could be wrong) then it doesn't have the facility to operate the 'Sport' and 'Plus' lights in the steering wheel spokes. The later one does.

Apparently the early control unit is upgradeable (probably by replacement) to the later version, but it's expensive for something that's not all that important (the messages are in the dash display anyway).


Edited to add:

mrdemon said:

I think if you retro fit even if you add the Sports button software you have to have the wheel with no lights.

there are 2 pt numbers for the paddle wheel, one with lights one with out.

Yes, I vaguely recollect there being 2 versions of the paddle steering wheel too - one for each control unit type.

Edited by Ian_UK1 on Friday 24th May 16:12