Very nice work. Best interior I've seen

A couple of additions after helping a fellow RL'er get this going on his car:

1) I originally stated that you needed a deck with an IR receiver but actually you need either that or a deck with a remote-in wire. Based on a similar install on my BMW the hard wired option works much more reliably.

2) The Pac Audio steering wheel control box will ask you for a version number, which is intended to correspond to the brand of car you have, on the assumption that your car has existing steering wheel stereo control. As this is a retrofit of transmission control buttons rather than stereo control, that doesn't really make any sense. I used Version 3 and it works fine.

3) For hard wired installation you'll be connecting the single control wire to your deck to a single wire coming off of the clock spring.

Hope that helps someone in the future.

Cheers.

With much help from Greg, I completed this modification a couple of weeks ago. Thank you Greg!!! The looks and function are incredible! I am going to add a few things which may or may not be clear from the original post. I see that Greg has covered one of the biggest ones. I was not sure which version number to use, but 3 worked perfectly. I might note that I used a different PAC device. Mine was a PAC SWI-RC. There is a single black wire with a RCA jack that plugs directly into the back of my new Alpine receiver that allows for remote control. The control is precise and accurate. I have six functions. Volume up/down, Track up/down, Mute, & Source selection. You MUST fully disassemble your TIP wheel and get the rocker switch wiring harness removed. Once removed you must strategically find the correct spots to insert four resistors included in the kit. They must be cleanly soldered in. You will put two on the yellow with red stripe wires and two on the solid brown wires before they go to the clock spring. The factory uses these crimp on terminals to join common wires together. WIWIT, I removed all of these and made soldered connections. Make sure the resistors are 500 ohms apart from each other. I will post some pictures later from my phone. I made an Excel spreadsheet of the Wheel harness. I will see if I can figure out how to upload.

OK, here are some pics from my install:



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Harness competed below:

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Installed back into the wheel below:

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Back into car:

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Completed install

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Some extra pics of the clock spring and various other stuff:



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All in all a great project. You will spend a lot of time upside down under your dash though! Thanks again to Greg for making this possible!