kosmo

yup and so did AP and the GT team.

jlanka

the thing I like about the buttons is they're push/pull instead of left right, and they follow the wheel. No thinking involved

mdkrp

1++

bccars

Or even better. I'd love some steering column mounted paddles !

Augustomf

I agree the buttons work well, but my brains does not!!! My wife has a BMW, the "Manual" on the stick is forward - backwards +, which is very intuitive, its like shifting from 1st to 2nd for speed and downshifting from 4th to 3rd for reduce speed. Yes, I do remember the old cars where 1st was down not up!

Porsche is the opposite, and before we go on to say who is right, the new GT3 finally fixes this to the BMW (All other cars) method.

The PDK shifter plays the same mind trick, much easier to learn right for up, left for down, specially if you have other cars !!!!

BTW go to England and drive a stick shift car, its the same stick, and you will see how your brain plays tricks on you.

97c2s993

I've said it in a previous post and will mention it again fwiw: I had the base tiptronic wheel before I switched to the Sports design wheel with paddles. With the previous wheel I encountered instances where I accidentally leaned on the buttons switching gears - scary! This happened mainly when I tracked the car which was a showstopper for me right then and there. Many won't track their cars so perhaps not as big an issue.
Having said that, in normal day to day driving I notice myself using the paddles almost very time I drive due to the ease (and fun) in flipping them. I find them so much more engaging than the switches. I almost never used the switches when I had the old wheel.
Why did I have the tiptronic wheel in the first place? I bought the car off the lot. Since then I swapped out the wheel and put spacers on. It had all the other options I would have picked. I am fulfilled!

John 996 TT Cab

I too had a Tiptronic car (996 TT Cab) and switched to the RAID wheel with paddles. Now I have 3 cars (996 TT Cab, 991S X51 Cab and 2012 BMW 650 Cab and the paddles operate in the same manner on all 3! Unfortunately the BMW manual stick shifting and the 991 aren't the same but I virtually never use the stick manual shift on the BMW but do on the 991 sometimes.

chuckbdc

Apart from playing the PSE organ, I leave PDK to do its job. The way it is programmed in Sport it does it astoundingly well at normal speeds and even better at track speeds.

Augustomf

+++ Agree

jddarkhorse14

I have a '14 3.4 with sport chrono. On another thread some mentioned that the dealer would have to re-program the wheel install? That doesn't seem right since its not MF/Heated wheel. Any confirmation on that. I would like to install myself.