New steering wheel with paddle shifters avail at Suncoast

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01-02-2010, 12:59 AM

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Looks good. Too bad I have a heated steering and I doubt they have that option or would be expensive

As if you need a heated steering wheel in Florida of all places...

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01-02-2010, 01:02 AM

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Steering wheel hand position is perfect but the meat on the inside of your palm of your thumb can and will trigger an upshift in a corner. I believe I would perfer the + and - paddle instead. Walter Rohl and many others do. I normally get all my down shifting done during the braking zone and before turn in. I do upshift with in some turns. So your theory of downshifting in a tight turn is moot for me and many other at the track.

I meant shifting during a turn, down or up, which BTW is perfectly possible with PDK as you well know. Michael: I look forward to your feeedback once you swith the wheel and clock a few miles on the track.

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01-03-2010, 06:48 PM

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Hmm nice to see and look into. Isn't this the same one in the new Boxster spyder?

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01-03-2010, 07:59 PM

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Champion Motorsport's paddles retro fitted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7BxYjljbc

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01-03-2010, 08:02 PM

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Nice looking wheel. Now all I need is to retrofit the PDK.

Why is its resemblance to a Ford steering wheel of any possible relevance? You either like it or you don't.

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01-05-2010, 11:26 AM

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I think it looks great - like the new TT wheel. I will however stick with what I got. Not sure its worth 1K to me.

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01-05-2010, 04:11 PM

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Why is its resemblance to a Ford steering wheel of any possible relevance?

Uh...the same relevance as the bitching over the 996 MKI headlights?

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01-05-2010, 10:31 PM

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I will, I am working up my Valentine Day Sales Program with the CEO as I type this.

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01-06-2010, 07:50 PM

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Champion asks $1,700 for their adaptation (incl. installation). The original one for $990 sounds a much better deal for me!

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01-06-2010, 08:39 PM

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Just to stir the pot a bit more, Leonard Turner's review of the new Turbo in the latest Panorama has the following comments on the new optional paddle shifters in that car:

"Personally I was underwhelmed; there are a lot of levers already lurking behind the steering wheel, and this adds two more. Reaching too far for the paddle on the road, I managed to high-beam the BMW in my gun sights instead of grabbing a lower gear, and felt rather foolish. If you must have these flying nun appendages, at least save them for the track and (the) clamoring journalists. For the road, stick with the stocker wheel; it works just fine"

Granted, one man's opinion. Also, the photo in Pano shows a paddle equipped wheel with much shinier spokes than the matte silver finish on my PDK wheel. I think I prefer the matte look.

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01-06-2010, 08:57 PM

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Just read a bit further in Pano and in the interest of fairness, the article with Walter Rohrl says he perfers the paddles to the buttons because they are what he is used to in other cars. So you pay your money and take your choice. I still don't care that much for the shiny finish on the wheel, though.

One other point that almost makes this discussion moot. Rohrl says he's as fast at the Nurburgring with the PDK in automatic as he is with the paddles. No difference, same time.

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01-10-2010, 05:03 AM

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Champion asks $1,700 for their adaptation (incl. installation). The original one for $990 sounds a much better deal for me!

Wow $1700 pluse install? Don't you have to ship your wheel to them too? Ouch! Unless I track the car alot or JUST have to have it the OEM wheel/paddles maybe it. It would be lovely IF Porsche would just offer an Upgrade kit to swap out the paddles themselves for the buttons instead of a whole new wheel as it seems that the new PDK paddle wheels don't offer multifunction and also may not be compatible with heated wheels either. Anyone know?

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01-10-2010, 11:18 AM

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A related question, for us 6-speed manual peeps -

Does anyone know what the code is for this new wheel? Is this the .2 version of the XPA?

(The specs on the car from which I took the pic don't indicate a special wheel)