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Alright Good People,
Im retrofitting steering wheel controls on my W208 but I cant be bothered with all that adding can bus and changing clusters etc etc.
I have a aftermarket radio with steering wheel controls capability. I have a converter to use Ford (non canbus) steering wheel controls and the circuit board from a ford steering wheel with controls. I have identified that each function on the ford circuit board can be controlled by a external microswitch. I have soldered on a simple 2 wire circuit to each part on the board.
So ive stripped down a facelift set w208 steering wheel switches and need to know if there is anyway to use the original microswitches and circuit board to send a simple on/off signal ? I only need to use 2 microswitches from each switch - Volume up / down on one and track up / down on the other ???
Or would it just be easier to dump the circuit boards and mount 4 new microswitches on some board and trim to fit the original switches ?
Any thoughts ?
Brett
Im retrofitting steering wheel controls on my W208 but I cant be bothered with all that adding can bus and changing clusters etc etc.
I have a aftermarket radio with steering wheel controls capability. I have a converter to use Ford (non canbus) steering wheel controls and the circuit board from a ford steering wheel with controls. I have identified that each function on the ford circuit board can be controlled by a external microswitch. I have soldered on a simple 2 wire circuit to each part on the board.
So ive stripped down a facelift set w208 steering wheel switches and need to know if there is anyway to use the original microswitches and circuit board to send a simple on/off signal ? I only need to use 2 microswitches from each switch - Volume up / down on one and track up / down on the other ???
Or would it just be easier to dump the circuit boards and mount 4 new microswitches on some board and trim to fit the original switches ?
Any thoughts ?
Brett