Steering Wheel Control

The steering wheel control works by sending different voltage to the radio player when you press a button on it.

This the the steering wheel adaptor that I've been using for the past few years with my pionneer head units. 

It's very easy to use. Just plug in the original swc wiring and then plug in the 3.5mm jack into the player. 

The new touchscreen player I bought didn't have this swc input jack. The input for the swc control was just a single wire on block 1 of the iso connector. 

So to make the steering wheel control stalk work, I had to connect the scw wire to the 3.5mm adaptor jack

I did this after testing the 3.5mm adaptor jack. The bottom ring is - ve/ground. The middle ring is +12v and the top ring is the scw input

After I got the wiring sorted out, it was time to program the new player with the inputs from the swc stalk. Do this according to the player you have. 

380,000kms Service

This little car has been very reliable these past couple of years, hence I had nothing much to blog about. Just the normal oil and fluids change at the required time

Today its in the garage to do its 380,000kms service. 

Apart from the normal oil change, I had to replace the engine cover/rocker cover gasket, front brake pads and front right abs sensor.

Oil leaking from the cracked gasket. Can't remember when I last changed it.

I was quite amazed at the condition of the camshaft and valves. No sludge build up after all these years

This shows the importance of using good quality oil and changing oil on time. I do mine every 10,000kms regardless of time. I always use semi synthetic.

300,000KMS, 7 Years On

Today I hit the 300,00km mark on my 206, something I never thought possible, 7 years ago, without the AL4 gearbox breaking down.

I celebrated today by having a nice drive from Bukit Belacan to Bt. 18 Cheras, and continued to Semenyih. The car still handles well, and the auto adaptive gearbox, awesome as ever.

I can still remember, 7 yrs ago before getting this car, did my 'research' on the AL4 gearbox. Wasn't worried about the TU3 engine as my previous TU1 engine on my Tiara/AX clocked about 550,000kms before the piston rings gave way. So i was sure this engine would not give me any major headache.

My fear was with the 'notorious' AL4 gearbox. Heard and read many horror stories about this gearbox. Water getting into the gearbox, hard jerks when changing gears, expensive gear oil change, gearbox failure as early as 100,000kms. One mechanic even told me that it would be a miracle if the AL4 survived 150,000kms without needing an overhaul.

But since I love the 206 very much, ever since it appeared in 1998, i told myself i might be able to save enough in my piggy bank for a gearbox overhaul by the time I clock 150K kms. So I went ahead and got myself this 206.

So, my first headache I had with this gearbox was the solenoid valve which gave way in 2010 at about 70,000kms. Lucky It was replace under warranty. And from them until today, the gearbox has performed wonderfully well.

Other than the normal wear and tear items, this car has given me trouble free motoring.

Peugeot 206/ Naza Bestari Trip Computer

One of the first mods I ever wanted to do on the car was to get the trip computer working. Finally after 6 years, it is done.

I got my cd player replaced. I bought over Bug's awesome Pioneer Head Unit. You can get details on the CD player here on His Blog . After replacing the Head Unit, i decided it was high time I get the trip computer working.

Not many of you might know that the Bestari does have the trip computer. I guess because of cost cutting measures, it was not made available as a standard feature on the car.

You'll need only two things for this mod. First being the bigger MFD display

Bestari's MFD

Secondly you will need the trip button.


You can get this button from a spoiled comm2000 or get it from me.

Replacing the MFD is straight forward, plug and play. I wont go into details on here.

Next is to fix the trip button. Use a needle or a tiny screw driver and slowly pry out the cover at the end of the wiper stalk. Its clipped into place. One the cover is taken out, this is how the stalk will look like



Then you'll need to remove this stopper.




Then just clip in the trip button and Job is done.




If by any chance your standard radio isn't working, you'll need to set the display type on the BSI using PP2000.

Pressing the trip button will cycle you thru date, distance to empty, distance traveled, average fuel consumption, instant fuel consumption, average speed.

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Leather Steering Wrap

Over the long weekend, I finally found the time to wrap my deteriorating steering wheel. Since I my sewing skill extremely poor, I wasn't too happy with the end results, but acceptable la for a guy who is holding a thread and needle for the first time in his life.

Followed the instructions given, first I lined the inner part of the steering wrap with double sided tape.

 

 But I would advise NOT to do this. Because once you stick the cover on the steering wheel, it is impossible to adjust the position of the cover while stitching. As you will see later, because of this I was unable to wrap the sides of my steering wheel properly. What you will need to do is just stick a bit of double sided tape on the 3 'spoke'edges. Because these edges will be folded in between the steering wheel and air bag cover.

Once done with the double sided tape, position the cover on the steering wheel.

Fold in the 3 edges to make sure you've got the position 100% correct. It should look something like this

Once its position correctly, you can start sewing. There's many videos on YouTube to see how the sewing is done.

When sewing around the 3 'spokes' edges, do not pull the thread too tight as u will need to pull and insert the cover in between the air bag cover. While sewing, don't worry if its not 100%perfect or it looks like a pile of garbage on your steering wheel. Everything will eventually fall into place nicely.

Once done it will look like this. I took almost 3 hrs to complete the job.

Notice how The righ and left sides are not folded into the airbag cover? This was because I used too much double sided tape and pulled the thread too tight when sewing round the edges.

If done perfectly, it would look like this

Here are some before n after photos of my steering wheel

Badly worn off

Looks brand new