Possible to upgrade steering wheel to get paddle shifters on Ecoboost Premium?

[laurent13009]

Hi all,

is it possible to upgrade the steering wheel to get the paddle shifters on the ecoboost premium , I get a lot of mixed answers and I can't find a single dealership that would confirm.

Thanks!

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[98jfuentes]

you’d need a rear steering wheel cover trim piece, new steering harness and a new SCCM. you’d then have to use forscan to program that SCCM and enable the respective features in the PCM and BCM.

 

[nultyyy]

Hi all,

is it possible to upgrade the steering wheel to get the paddle shifters on the ecoboost premium , I get a lot of mixed answers and I can't find a single dealership that would confirm.

Thanks!

Hey Bro it is possible to do it, you can go and buy a GT steering wheel with paddle shifts and heated steering if you have it and you can swap it yourself.
I did it for my Ecoboost and it took me 20mins pretty easy.

 

[98jfuentes]

Hey Bro it is possible to do it, you can go and buy a GT steering wheel with paddle shifts and heated steering if you have it and you can swap it yourself.
I did it for my Ecoboost and it took me 20mins pretty easy.

it was plug and play? i’m sure you needed to program the IPC to show the gears and accept the input. by default, he’ll have L gear when shifting down instead of M

 

[nultyyy]

it was plug and play? i’m sure you needed to program the IPC to show the gears and accept the input. by default, he’ll have L gear when shifting down instead of M

Yeah literally plug and play, shifters worked even without working with forscan but you just wouldn’t have gear display on cluster.

And yes you’d have to configure L to M mode and everything else that needs to be done to have everything working as if car came with it normally.



- Install new steering wheel
- Enable Select Shift in FORScan
(PCM 7E0-163-01 xxxx xxxx x*--) change 1 to 2. "L" gear shifter will be like "M"
- Enable Gear Select SST in FORScan
(IPC 720-02-01 *xxx xxxx xx--) change 0 to 4. this will show “M" in cluster to actually show gears.
- Continuous Gear Display in FORScan
(IPC 720-12-01 xx*x xxxx xx--) change C to E.

Officially those steps are credited to @fablighting

 

[laurent13009]

would it also include the adaptive cruise control? I don't have it on my ecoboost premium but I believe the wiring is all there

 

[nultyyy]

would it also include the adaptive cruise control? I don't have it on my ecoboost premium but I believe the wiring is all there

Well if you for example didn’t have heated steering, the wire would come with steering wheel but the plug in the car would be empty it’d just be an empty socket where the brown plug would go in from the steering wheel.

So I felt adaptive would be the same, if your car didn’t come with it, it won’t work. But you can look into it by activating in forscan, maybe the car already comes with the necessary modules just needs activation.

 

[Zig]

Well if you for example didn’t have heated steering, the wire would come with steering wheel but the plug in the car would be empty it’d just be an empty socket where the brown plug would go in from the steering wheel.

So I felt adaptive would be the same, if your car didn’t come with it, it won’t work. But you can look into it by activating in forscan, maybe the car already comes with the necessary modules just needs activation.

Does it have the second sensor (lower fascia) ?

 

[nultyyy]

My understanding is it is behind the fascia so u can’t see it, I’d have to check

 

[laurent13009]

yeah I don't know if the sensor is there. I don't use forscan but I probably should look into.

I'm new to the world of mustangs so I'm a bit reluctant to crack it open

 

[laurent13009]

The guys at CJ Pony parts say that a dark horse steering wheel with paddle shifters will only work on the ecoboost if it came with the paddles shifters originally . Don't know what to think anymore...

 

[slowboy2.3]

The guys at CJ Pony parts say that a dark horse steering wheel with paddle shifters will only work on the ecoboost if it came with the paddles shifters originally . Don't know what to think anymore...

Ford Parts doesn't show any different wiring harnesses for steering wheels with/without the paddle shifters, so theorhetically it should be plug+play for the wheel itself. You'd just need to program the SCCM so it knows it has those paddles/heated wheel/etc, along with the IPC/PCM to have paddle shifter functions, and APIM to have the heated wheel option. (I highly doubt Ford would go through the extra trouble of removing 2/3 wires, specifically for the steering column, from the wiring harness)

For the adaptive cruise control, if you don't have the CCM when you are scanning modules in FORScan, then you don't have the sensor needed for ACC. You can definitely get adaptive cruise control although its not plug+play like some other things.

 

[ValhallaNitePony]

Just thought I'd put this out there for anyone looking for a step-by-step video on the process: How To Add Paddle Shifters to a 2024+ Ecoboost Mustang S650!

Something the video mentions is that the wheel you buy needs to match the cruise buttons you had previously, but the instructions for the Ford Performance Dark Horse wheel actually cover this - https://performanceparts.ford.com/download/instructionsheets/IS_M-3600-M.PDF . They say that if the vehicle did not have adaptive cruise, you just swap the buttons from the old wheel onto the new wheel, and the instructions walk you through how to do that.

 

[laurent13009]

the item description on cjponyparts says " Steering wheel kit does not include switches, air bag module or hardware. Switches, air bag module and hardware must be transferred from owners original steering wheel. " so I guess that a no brainer

 

[ValhallaNitePony]

I just finished up this install on my EcoBoost. Using an OEM takeoff paddle shift wheel from eBay, I followed the M-3600-M instructions linked above to swap over the switches and front bezel from my original wheel to the paddle wheel (my car does not have adaptive cruise and the wheel I bought did), and reinstalled it. Ford's instructions note that the bolt holding the steering wheel to the column is one-time use and to discard it and replace it with a new one, and valuing my own life when it comes to steering, I sprung for the $0.99 part (Ford Part No. W721079-S437) and torqued it to 46lb ft. per Ford. Paddle shifting up and down while in drive worked immediately. I have not gotten into ForScan to change the L mode to M, but I will do that later. I mostly wanted the ability to initiate a downshift or upshift on the fly while in drive, which can be useful in traffic or when the computer sometimes does not know what you want the car to do. My old S197 had that and I missed it immediately when I bought the S650.

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