Epic day today with William (wsmeyer). Accomplished 4 sweet mods all at once, and kinda related. Originally we were just going to do the paddle shift mod but that morphed into other stuff. Please excuse yet more poor cell phone pics.
1st - installed paddle shifter mod that Ryan sold me. Absolutely love it. That, along with the Dinan STEP shift s/w makes the car shift much quicker. It's way more fun to drive, the paddles feel great, and it was very straightforward thanks to Ryan (whitexi) essentially selling me his whole setup. It seems like a different car and the STEP M mode (manual) is no longer an albatross. Some pics.
2nd - while in there, we moved the Parrot Bluetooth mic from up above in the reading lights area w/o good voice pickup to the OEM mic location that's on the steering wheel column. This involved a little re-routing and then a cut/splice/switch of the OEM mic to the Parrot mic.
Overview shot.
3rd - While the center shift boot, etc was out, we did the (vert only) individual windows auto-up, auto-down mod which is essentially taking off a clip and programming the car for it.
4th - While programming, William also set the top for "keyfob close". You could hold the unlock button and the top would lower remotely, but you couldn't close it that way. Now, you hold the lock button and the top will close.
Thanks to William for his expertise and again to Ryan for selling me his setup.
EDIT: pic of completed work.
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