chuckbdc

When I test drove PDK with buttons I found them totally unintuitive and swore to get paddles if I ever got PDK. When I got my car off the showroom floor, I swore to replace the standard steering wheel with a Sport Design as soon as I could.

After about two weeks I stopped swearing. Now after 19 months and almost 10k miles, I just smile at this being an issue at all. Using the buttons when desired is second nature, as is shifting via the lever.

Setting the PDK mode to start-stop on or off, Sport, or Sport Plus and then really enjoying PDK doing its thing seems totally appropriate when in the interesting part of driving -anticipation, car placement, braking, steering, and throttle positioning.

But I swear I need PSE...

Justin N

I did the same thing. One of the only options missing from my car (I bought from dealer stock) was the Sport Steering wheel. After a few weeks of the buttons on the multifunction heated wheel I find the accessibility of shifting and all of the other functions almost perfect. The integration to the small LCD (next to the tach) is so well done and informative. I could see this being a bit less useful on previous models without the small gauge pod LCD, but the the 991 it makes a lot of sense.

CrazyMD

I've been reading these forums for quite some time in anticipation of the time that I would purchase a new 911 Turbo. I found the car I was looking for and the vehicle turned out to be very sentimental to me. If you read the following article you will understand why:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...-life/1811295/

After taking delivery of the car, I found the PDK paddleshift system to be reverse of whats normal for me and difficult to drive. So I started looking on the internet for options.

I came upon the Techart PDK paddle's. After calling Techart and talking with someone named Florian, he sold me on the $900 upgrade kit.

I received my kit and on sunday began the installation. Midway during the install (After my steering wheel is off the car and taken apart) I noticed that the plastic paddles have internal cracks in them. I should have stopped at this point seeing the poor quality of the kit. I put a little superglue on the inside of the paddle's and continued with the install.

For $900, the kit consists of 4 pieces of plastic...maybe valued at $5, manufactured and molded in china. 2 pieces are the paddles and 2 plastic pieces cover the front of the steering wheel where the PDK push button used to be. After everything was complete, I had the steering wheel back on the car, I completed the last step which was snapping the 2 PDK button covers in place. Not to my surprise, the fit and quality of the buttons was very poor. They do not fit into place correctly, it seems that the molding is a bit off. Infact when I pull the left paddle, the plastic cover moves quite a bit. Definitely not right.

So I immediately email Techart indicating that the installation went well, however one of the plastic covers molding doesnt seem to fit right and I'd like to swap that out for another one that would possibly fit better. The response I get from this moron is to disassemble the entire kit, return it to them and they will give me another kit. I tell him that it took 3 hours to install the kit. Why would I take everything off when all you need to do is exchange out a $1 plastic cover piece for me which is the last step in the instructions. Again I received the same idiotic response including that I should have had them professionally installed. I responded that had I paid a shop to do the install and you tell me to take everything apart to swap out a small piece they would be responsible for all my costs incurred. I could tell that dealing with this company is not worth anymore of my time.

So the bottom line, if you are looking at upgrading your PDK paddles I would recommend AVOIDING using Techart. Their quality control is horrible, their parts do not fit right, and their customer service is worse than the crappy chinese manufacturing used to make their parts.

I called American express today, opened a dispute on the charge. I'll be posting some pictures and a youtube video of the poor quality of their product. I'll be taking the entire kit off my car and putting it back to stock or just buying the Factory Porsche S steering wheel that has the paddles built in.

DKC64

I'm one of those who is looking for a way to reverse the PDK shift direction. Now that Porsche has shown us that they can do it in the New GT3, I'm hoping that it can be retro-fitted to normal Carreras!

No more engineering and insurance issues!

Curvfun

Me too!!

Sidney1

.. me three ;-)