Rewire backside steering wheel controls?

[rcadden]

Has anyone figured out how to rewire the backside toggles on the steering wheel? I just want to swap them so volume is on the left. Makes no sense to have volume on the right when the actual knob is 4inches away.

Seems like it would be relatively easy to just swap the wires?

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[Martial Fartist]

Thought the same exact thing. why put the volume NEXT to the volume.

 

[Martial Fartist]

I want a mute function with the steering volume controls.

 

[Dave928]

i could be wrong, but my guess would be that you can't do it without some major work. all the steering wheel switches are coded on the CAN bus or LIN bus system, they don't have individual wires, except maybe inside the switch packs themselves.

these are JK parts, but you can see there is no wiring other than the bus wires...

 

[GtX]

Being left handed, I'd prefer the volume on the left side of the wheel and have wondered this more than a few times.

 

[GtX]

Mount the wheel upside down...?

This is the way!

 

[nU7OuxIx]

This is one of my complaints with the Jeep. I drive with my left hand and have my right arm being comfortable on the console rest. The controls on my other car were laid out really nice; on the left hand side you had a volume up/down, mute in the middle, and scroll through the presets with the left/right.

I wished they would change the controls to do a volume up/mute/down on the left side and scroll through the presets on the right side. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything that will allow you to reprogram them.

 

[Headbarcode]

I've often wondered if that could be added to the Tazers feature list.

 

[TheRaven]

Can't be done. Steering wheel controls usually have a single circuit per pod. The different functions are discerned through resistance. Each button diverts a +5v signal through a resistor, thus returning a resistance value that the infotainment system can read and then react to. You MIGHT be able to swap the pods themselves, but then you'd have volume up on the bottom and volume down on the top which would make no sense either. Unless you can physically modify the pods to fix that issue, it's not going to be possible to swap the volume and track functions.

 

[wired]

Can't be done. Steering wheel controls usually have a single circuit per pod. The different functions are discerned through resistance. Each button diverts a +5v signal through a resistor, thus returning a resistance value that the infotainment system can read and then react to. You MIGHT be able to swap the pods themselves, but then you'd have volume up on the bottom and volume down on the top which would make no sense either. Unless you can physically modify the pods to fix that issue, it's not going to be possible to swap the volume and track functions.

Well, If Stinger can do it with the Heigh10, why can't Uconnect? I swapped my volume controls to the left side months ago on my Heigh10. I also made a "long press" on the left side volume down button to mute. One of many changes the Heigh10 makes possible (like remembering the value of the ESS system, activating the rear camera on blinker use, adding 4 other cameras, etc...)

 

[calvinf1]

Well, If Stinger can do it with the Heigh10, why can't Uconnect? I swapped my volume controls to the left side months ago on my Heigh10. I also made a "long press" on the left side volume down button to mute. One of many changes the Heigh10 makes possible (like remembering the value of the ESS system, activating the rear camera on blinker use, adding 4 other cameras, etc...)

Because UConnect doesn't have an option for you to swap. This is builtin specific function to the Stinger headunit.

 

[Cartman]

Hi guys, I want to ask for your advice. In one day I also changed the steering wheel, while I swapped the buttons and wiring from the old to the new one and on the same day I also took off the instrument panel. I am not able to identify what the problem could be, whether in the steering wheel or in the wiring behind the radio. I checked the wiring in the steering wheel and it is connected ok, also the connectors are correctly inserted into the buttons. The front side, i.e. the instrument panel control, phone calls and cruise control work correctly. The back side does not work on either side. I also checked if I connected all the connectors to the radio. and everything is connected. The only thing that's strange to me is that I have two mini USB Bs coming from the back of the media socket, gray and black, and the gray then continues to the radio and the black gets lost in the wiring, but on the radio I have access to both the gray and black mini USB B. So I wondered if I accidentally plugged the black mini USB into the radio and not into the media socket. Could someone please advise me? I'm really desperate.

 

[Cartman]

Can't be done. Steering wheel controls usually have a single circuit per pod. The different functions are discerned through resistance. Each button diverts a +5v signal through a resistor, thus returning a resistance value that the infotainment system can read and then react to. You MIGHT be able to swap the pods themselves, but then you'd have volume up on the bottom and volume down on the top which would make no sense either. Unless you can physically modify the pods to fix that issue, it's not going to be possible to swap the volume and track functions.

Is there any possibility that I broke something during steering wheel replacement? Am I able to check somwhere is the controls are ok?

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