OBC addition Cables

[BFeller]

The other stalks do not have the same mount. I did poke around on a some Audi and VW parts website trying to find a stalk that might work. I figured our cars borrowed some other Audi/VW stuff like the key switch.

[BruceH]

I'll try to keep an eye out for one for you Martin.

[Fintro11]

Thanks Bruce!

[Fintro11]

Thanks Charles !

Yeah I think it's usually the seller that bumps it up >.<

[MN 986]

I just found a 4 stalk assembly to add the 4th stalk to my 2002, now I just need the harness.

Pdwight - I'll send the $45 for the 4 stalk harness via PayPal tonight. Let me know your lead time.

Fintro11 - Sorry if it was me that got the one you were bidding on. I got it Sunday late, but maybe not the same one since price was low until the last 10 minutes or so, got it for just over $100.

[Pdwight]

I have two partially finished and will get them all out by tomorrow's mail...work has beat me up this week..sorry for the delay but I iwll not take any short cuts on my work.

When I was a young student in Electronics class (think 1973) one of the instructors told us "If you dont have time to do it right the first time...how will you ever find time to do it right the second time?"

Thanks everyone

Dwight

[Fintro11]

Originally Posted by MN 986

I just found a 4 stalk assembly to add the 4th stalk to my 2002, now I just need the harness.

Pdwight - I'll send the $45 for the 4 stalk harness via PayPal tonight. Let me know your lead time.

Fintro11 - Sorry if it was me that got the one you were bidding on. I got it Sunday late, but maybe not the same one since price was low until the last 10 minutes or so, got it for just over $100.

Damn you lol I put auction sniper at 105 >.< lol

Glad someone on the forum got it though

[Fintro11]

Just got one for $125 from MODELS

They seemed really good on the phone

[BruceH]

Originally Posted by Fintro11

Just got one for $125 from MODELS

They seemed really good on the phone

That's a good price, I think I paid $130. I had not heard of that parts place. They seem to have reasonable prices.

[Fintro11]

bmw ...........

[Pdwight]

Did you get your harness yet ?

[Fintro11]

Originally Posted by Pdwight

Did you get your harness yet ?

Nope, got the Switch though got bored and half installed it pretty easy to do once the harness comes I'll take some pictures and do a little install guide. Pretty excited

[Fintro11]

[Pdwight]

with the harness it will be a cakewalk, please let me know when it comes in

Thanks
Dwight

[eicheldp]

Finally got everything installed, 4th stalk in place and buttoned up. Connected the Durametric, activated the OBC.........FAIL. :troll:

Could not get the correct number of bytes back from the OBC plus I received a fault code of 5555.

I am confused. Do I need to go to the dealer and have the factory code turned on with the PIWIS(?).

[Pdwight]

I had the same situation when I did my install, I drove to another members home and he had a PIWIS (spelling?)and it still did no good. What it turned out to be was a connection. Double check the connector you inserted the pins into at the back of the instrument panel, make double sure it is completely plugged in all the way...easy to have it askew .

Also be sure none of your pins pushed out of the connector....if you saw the triangles they should stay in place.

Next thing to try is the actual 4 stalk, I had a cold solder joint in the OBC lever on the ground.....easy to "Ohm" this lever out.

Let me know if I can ever help

Dwight

[eicheldp]

Dwight,
Took it apart and put it back together.....It now works.

Go figure.

Thanks for all your help & you too Bruce. The harness worked great.
One word of advice to all who want to do this hack. Put the top down first. Life will be much easier. Ask me how I know.

Don

[nm24]

Hi Pdwight,
New to site and was interested in a wiring harness for a 4 stalk steering column upgrade I want to do on my 2000 Boxster S (RHD). Does your harness do away with putting together the various VW connectors/wires as in 101 thing to do on Porsche Boxster book?
I have the 4 stalk switch with cruise control etc and am looking for simple plug & play type harness which seems to be what you have?

[oldskool73]

Yes, these are basically premade versions of the harness described in the 101 project book.

Also, for the guys in the UK/AU above... not taking away from what Pdwight is doing as he's certainly making a great product and has pages of great reviews here to attest to that... but there's also an EBay seller in the UK who makes the same thing (and a cruise control version also). With the current exchange rates they work out to be about half the price.

[lkchris]

Installed Dwight's nice cable about a year ago and bought a Durametric and got OBC activated. However, nothing on the dash. Retry with Durametric said already activated.

So this week I installed the 3-blink turn signal upgrade and decided to check my obc wiring at the same time. For a while now I've owned a complete 996 dash wiring harness (must weigh 100 lb) and was able to track down the obc wiring in that to enable me to verify the pin connections, in case I'd miswired the dash connector--I hadn't.

Anyway, after getting everything back together obc now works and I'm really happy.

Moral to the story? Guess it's possible to not get that gray connector (mine's 2001) correctly reattached to the cluster ... or perhaps I didn't get the black connector block back into the gray holder correctly. My car is manual trans and there's only one other wire in the gray connector--don't know what it is but saw no other problem during the year not having gray connector correct.

3-blink works, too, but it was a big hassle ...obc activation was a piece of cake in comparison... just don't be confused by suggestions you need to remove steering wheel. Obc lever is separately removable from the rest, so you can just bolt it on to your existing configuration.