Just had these fitted by 1320 last week :nice:
These are CF (real not fake) paddles with a beautifully engineered and made system that changes the Fisher Price OEM paddles to an F1 style right-Upshift/left-downshift.

I cannot tell you how happy I am with this mod - always thought this is how it should've been out of the factory. The shifts feel just so nice with a much shorter throw and a beautiful, smooth movement that makes the changes much, much quicker than with the OEM paddles.

Paddles and mechanism are from Japan and steering wheel is an OMP SuperQuadro.

 

wow thats cool, all you need a dsg for the paddles!

 

Great setup!

 

DO WANT.

 

Would be nice if they could program in some rev matched downshifts...

 

WOW i've been waiting for something like this to happen. Those are so much better looking than the stock ones... Do you have to change the wheel to use them?
Where can I get them from?
thanks
-Malcon

 

Yes, you have to change the wheel. Be warned the paddles and mechanism are not cheap - with shipping and taxes the total WITHOUT steering wheel/boss/fitting comes to about $700.00. If you're still interested, let me know.

 

thats about what I was expecting it to cost actually.
So if i want to keep the airbag and stock wheel.. is there a way to just do the software... and keep the factory pieces

thanks man
-Malcon

 

There's no software change, just a change of wiring. PM me your email and I'll email you the instructions that my Japanese contact translated for me regarding the wiring.

 

thanks!

 

whoa. that looks so legit, roofas. seeing this mod makes me want an automatic/paddle-shift mini lol. but dang 700 bucks just for shipping and tades?? that's ridiculous, but i guess in the end its all worth it. how much was the actual wiring, paddle shifters, and steering wheel themselves?

 

Thnaks JB - no, the paddles/mechanism + shipping /taxes came to $700, not just shipping and taxes! All in, with fitting it came to about $1200.

Malcon - will email you later today.

 

Hawt

 

Looks great, and far more functional! I prefer the stock wheel though, for the day-to-day driving. Someone needs to come up with a way to combine the two

 

for sure!

 

MINIUSA would make more moolah if all the minis had something similar to this, stock. not that bullcrap whimpy slow laggy both-way'd paddle shifter things lol

 

will airbag light stay on with out the driver airbag?

 

No, you have resistors to 'fool' the system or summat like that

 

PM Sent!

 

We need this for the stock steering wheel! I'm wondering if you can use the DCT paddles on the M3. I know for the stock 3 series which have the same steptronic system, you can swap that out and have it work like left for down and right for up.

 

Not sure if you guys have seen this but http://www.ca-at.co.uk/single_prod-c...pZD0xOTE1.html

I wonder if this will work? It looks like it's listed to work with Cooper S models.

 

I wish there were cheaper alternatives to this modification. I love the idea of having F1 style paddles. Especially after driving a car with them, its hard to revert back to MINI ones lol.