Heated steering wheel retrofit

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Bluebro
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Post by Bluebro »

I bought myself a flat bottom steering wheel for my car and was fortunate enough to find it was heated as well.

As my car didn’t originally have a heated steering wheel I just went ahead and fitted the wheel to see what would happen. As I guessed the heated wheel button would not illuminate and no heat could be felt around the rim.

I did a few searches through this forum and saw a few posts where others had asked about fitting a heated wheel but no one had came up with a final solution as far as I could see.

So after speaking to a jaguar mechanic I know I managed to find out that our cars are pre wired already for a heated wheel and that a module needs to be clipped into place behind the steering wheel which has two contacts that run around two brass rings at the rear of the heated wheels.

Part number is C2C7505.

Fitted the module, clipped in the grey plug which is already in the car under the lower cowl and happy to report I now have an illuminated button and a toasty steering wheel just in time for winter with no coding required to the car at all.
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Post by Lunar »

Well done that man 👍🏻

I have a flat bottom wheel with illuminated heated switch but it’s not heated :roll: :lol:
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AJB2
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Post by AJB2 »

That’s really great to know.

Next question, I don’t suppose you took any photos you could share please?
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Post by Bluebro »

I’m afraid not but if you are comfortable removing the airbag and steering wheel plus the lower cowling it’s pretty self explanatory. Just don’t forget to disconnect the battery before unplugging the airbag terminals.
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Post by Bluebro »

Lunar wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:21 pm
I have a flat bottom wheel with illuminated heated switch but it’s not heated :roll: :lol:
I’m curious to find out how that works? :lol:
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Bluebro wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:01 am
Lunar wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:21 pm
I have a flat bottom wheel with illuminated heated switch but it’s not heated :roll: :lol:
I’m curious to find out how that works? :lol:
But he's said it doesn't work!
I guess the wheel has no heating element ... ;)
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Post by AJB2 »

I’ve been extremely lucky & managed to find a module for sale on eBay for £75 so I’ve snapped that up along with a new heated steering wheel. Bluebro, I don’t suppose you live in the South of England by any chance do you?
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Post by Bluebro »

scm wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:17 am
Bluebro wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:01 am
Lunar wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:21 pm
I have a flat bottom wheel with illuminated heated switch but it’s not heated :roll: :lol:
I’m curious to find out how that works? :lol:
But he's said it doesn't work!
I guess the wheel has no heating element ... ;)
It’s the button lighting up when it’s not a heated wheel I’m interested in :D
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The buttons were the old flat type - the volume one was getting a bit sticky and the right hand side cluster was just a blank too.
So (with great assistance from dbv6s) I swapped them for the newer profiled buttons, so have a full button complement on both sides now.
You keep the original electronic boards and just swap them into the new buttons.
So I guess the heated steering wheel LED was illuminating before - just behind a blank button for some bizarre reason!
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Post by Bluebro »

Lunar wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:12 pm The buttons were the old flat type - the volume one was getting a bit sticky and the right hand side cluster was just a blank too.
So (with great assistance from dbv6s) I swapped them for the newer profiled buttons, so have a full button complement on both sides now.
You keep the original electronic boards and just swap them into the new buttons.
So I guess the heated steering wheel LED was illuminating before - just behind a blank button for some bizarre reason!
Was there a circuit board behind the full blank on the right hand side?
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