That's great you got the paddles to work, though I'm a little surprised.
Years back when I got my E70 there were a number of us members here doing steering wheel swaps, and the consensus seemed to be paddles didn't work on the 35d or any 35i/50i that didn't come with either Sport or M Sport. At least not without additional work - not plug 'n play.
Agree with you the paddles - I swapped from an M Sport steering wheel to an X5M to get the paddles as my early 2012 build didn't have them, and I've never really used them.
Steering wheel swaps are one of my favorite mods, they make a nice improvement.
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Originally Posted by str8shot
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Really good deal! For others looking to do a steering wheel swap, it might be worth looking into the M Sport or X5M steering wheels, depending on how much you want to spend.
Here's an M Sport w/o paddles -
https://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-E70-E71...AAAOSwAINa7b3N
Here's an X5M wheel. The differences from M Sport are:
-different style paddles (late 2012 and all 2013 35i/50i M Sports got paddles)
-///M tri-stitching instead of black
-different button configuration, but still a direct swap
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Multifuncti...kAAOSwT7Va35CA