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MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« on: November 26, 2009, 03:19:25 pm »
I have a DSG gearbox, so I thought adding some multifunction goodness to my steering wheel would be fairly straightforward and to be honest, it is. I am doing lots of interior upgrades at the moment and I managed to pick up the left hand wheel insert thingamie on eBay the other week for a decent price. However, I haven't seen a right hand one anywhere so I popped into my local dealer today and asked for a quote only to find out that they want £90.93 for it... Yikes!

Remember, this is just the wheel insert with the buttons and only the right hand one at that... £90? That's outrageous. So, the question is, is there anywhere else I can get this part (part number 1K0959538EREH) and if so can I get it at a more realistic price?

« Last Edit: November 26, 2009, 03:37:22 pm by mclovin »

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2009, 03:32:18 pm »
Try PM'in Deako, he helped me out with this, have a look on ebay.de, they have the set and loom on there for around £40

Deako is your man though!

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2009, 03:42:45 pm »
if you find out can you let me know? i want a set too!

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2009, 03:43:02 pm »
PM sent - Thanks Prepree!

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2009, 06:20:48 pm »
www.ebay.de is the place to find these things, I just found exactly the item I wanted for 20 Euros, bargain!

I also spotted a complete set for sale (both inserts and the control module) as well for 65 Euros:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310180818109&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.de%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp3907.m38.l1313%26_nkw%3D310180818109%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2009, 07:38:09 pm »
good stuff mclovin!!

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2009, 08:08:59 pm »
Do these just fit to the standard wheel? Is anything else needed apart from some coding?

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 08:20:01 pm »
if you have dsg you dont need the control box...as far as i know

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2009, 08:22:51 pm »
You carn't fit them to a standard wheel though cos there is no cutouts for the wiring,  the DSG already has the controller and the cutouts so its easy to put the buttons in,

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2009, 08:25:46 pm »
Thought it sounded too easy! Wouldnt be possible to "make" cut outs for the wires!?

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2009, 08:26:49 pm »
once i plug em in, do i need to code them too?

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2009, 08:29:23 pm »
needs coding in the steering wheel module 16 on vcds just to tell the steering controller the buttons are there.

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2009, 08:41:45 pm »
www.ebay.de is the place to find these things, I just found exactly the item I wanted for 20 Euros, bargain!

I also spotted a complete set for sale (both inserts and the control module) as well for 65 Euros:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310180818109&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.de%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp3907.m38.l1313%26_nkw%3D310180818109%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Just an observation but isn't the UK MFSW with different buttons to those that mclovin just pointed out?

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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2009, 09:15:38 pm »
I also spotted a complete set for sale (both inserts and the control module) as well for 65 Euros:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310180818109&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.de%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp3907.m38.l1313%26_nkw%3D310180818109%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

I got mine from this seller - mine are the MFD/OK button version though so he/she obviously can get either. Great seller as well, they only took three days to arrive and were really well packed.

Ended up buying a full set from Germany after I was pipped at the post by someone else on Ebay who was bidding on the same left-hand set I was, back at the end of October.......  :signLOL:
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Re: MFSW wheel insterts - How much?
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2009, 09:30:12 pm »
The buttons that Mclovin just pointed out are the early type 2 phone buttons, the new type only have 1 phone button and a mute button a star. 

Darren