Member Since: 26 Dec 2013
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 182
Heated steering wheel at last!
Finally got my heated steering wheel to work after 18 months of buying more items and re-checking and generally faffing around! - brilliant!
Thank you to bbs and their after sales support!
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20th Jan 2017 6:53 pm
geoffsnook
Member Since: 13 Jun 2014
Location: south wales
Posts: 3170
Well done that man Discovery 3 se gone
Range rover sport supercharged here:)
20th Jan 2017 6:55 pm
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2522
When you can tear you hand s away from that nice,warm wheel you will have to tell the tale.
Someone else on here was having a nightmare with one so your story might help him or others MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
20th Jan 2017 6:59 pm
Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 1394
fantastic upgrade, would never to like to be without mine
20th Jan 2017 7:02 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73096
Well worth the struggle, was using the heated wheel on my D4 and it was luuuuuuuuverly.
20th Jan 2017 7:02 pm
geoffsnook
Member Since: 13 Jun 2014
Location: south wales
Posts: 3170
Yes there has been a few on hear lately i must have been lucky when i got mine it went straight on and worked straight away with a little tinkering Discovery 3 se gone
Range rover sport supercharged here:)
20th Jan 2017 7:03 pm
Edgey808
Member Since: 26 Dec 2013
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 182
To add some information and maybe help someone else from loosing more hair! the issue might be two fold the first was basically the replacement heated pcb from bbs, this had a couple of wires loose, To be honest I never noticed it when I first fitted this board so not 100 % sure if they have always been loose or have become loose from my intervention?
From reading this great forum, I purchased all the required components, a rrs 2010 steering wheel (forum member) new heated clock spring, power cable from the club shop, etc....new steering control and heater pcb's from bbs for the control modules.
Again knowledge from this forum, gave me the understanding to have ago at dismantling the fascia and controls, (h-trim ), steering wheel etc, ( the look on the wife's face when walking past the truck with everything out of the car.....steering wheel, h, trim, stereo, sat nav......wires sticking out in various places.....and me confidently saying yes I do know where it all goes honest!
Positive to say I managed to place everything back together (with no remaining extras!) and then switched on! - but disappointed with only the green light! Instead of the yellow light indicating that heating is on! - But ok everything else worked apart from the heated steering wheel.....
Loads more time wasted with checking and re-checking everything numerous times. Even asked flack to double check everything for me........we both came to the conclusion it must be the heating element in the steering wheel that was at fault.....(mick fitted his heated steering wheel, and all worked ok.)
But as we all now know, you can't buy this heating component.....you have to buy the whole steering wheel.....
So with some cash available this winter I bit the bullet and purchased a brand new 2016 steering wheel from duckworths, and fitted it during the Christmas break and still no heat!
At this point, it was a case of "that's it sell the bloody lot!"
My Last resort was to email to bbs, and explained the whole situation to them, they very quickly asked me to check the heater pcb, ok one last time I thought and low and behold.........
I've looked at this and other sections so many times, but it's now very clear to see the problem.
Really don't know if it was me or not enough solder penetration? - to be honest at this moment I really don't care, bbs have sorted me out very quickly and it works! - so one happy hot handed discovery driver!
So now I'll have to re-check the rrs2010 steering wheel to see if it does actually work, and if it does it will be back up for sale soon......watch this space....
New 2016 steering wheel that has had the control modules swapped from the rrs into this steering wheel...
At last ! (Notice the little yellow light!!! )
20th Jan 2017 8:34 pm
AskBugsy
Member Since: 18 Nov 2019
Location: Hertford
Posts: 9
Sorry to be ignorant....
Just got myself a 2008 HSE, love the idea of a heated steering wheel, read your posts, looking at the last picture of the steering wheel, do all the buttons work or do you have any redundancy?
Do you know if anybody sells all the required parts as one kit?
27th Nov 2019 11:17 pm
Bicycle repairman
Member Since: 18 Sep 2019
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 188
All the switches will work but you will have to buy the parts separately Clock spring for heated wheel, wheel itself and then replacement pcb boards for the wheel switches from a company called Blackbox solutions hope this helps.
It's so nice having one, toasty hands in the morning
28th Nov 2019 1:04 am
AskBugsy
Member Since: 18 Nov 2019
Location: Hertford
Posts: 9
Thank you for the response, apologies for the delay in acknowledging it!
Can I ask, if I get a RRS wheel that has paddles, I'm assuming that I can remove them or ignore them?
25th Dec 2019 3:55 pm
Ians63
Member Since: 10 Nov 2019
Location: Montrose
Posts: 49
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Can you confirm this is the control module you had to use?
11th Jan 2020 6:02 pm
ostosix
Member Since: 19 Mar 2017
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 324
Hi folks, what is the approximate cost of this mod?
Regards Mikey
30th Jan 2020 3:58 pm
DISCO3HSE2018
Member Since: 28 Feb 2018
Location: Hampton
Posts: 585
It's about £400
30th Jan 2020 4:06 pm
ostosix
Member Since: 19 Mar 2017
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 324
Thank you, suppose its all about finding a wheel in good nick
30th Jan 2020 9:11 pm
Lee1974
Member Since: 17 Aug 2020
Location: Walsall
Posts: 5
Hi I’ve done all this mod all working except the heated wheel I’ve got the wire to the clock spring off the ciggy lighter and the live is all working but button just stays green any help be good after spending £500 like lol
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), steering wheel etc, ( the look on the wife's face when walking past the truck with everything out of the car.....steering wheel, h, trim, stereo, sat nav......wires sticking out in various places.....and me confidently saying yes I do know where it all goes honest! 
heated steering wheel..... 
