VY steering wheel controls drop out with park lights (FIXED!)

[RayNixon]

yeah thanks, unfortunate it says exactly what you told me... thanks anyway.. ill do some more digging, thanks for your time. Cheers. Ray.

 

[caaf]

No worries, so you have the PDF?

 

[RayNixon]

Yes I did... thanks for that... I am thinking that maybe the clock spring might have been changed at some point in time... and their may be a wire asses about.

 

[caaf]

Dunno, just don't touch anything with a yellow plug.. lots of flash bangs in there lol.. certainly an odd one. Keep us updated

 

[RayNixon]

Yes I made sure the airbag fuse was out before I was playing in there... scared myself a few times sorting the horn out! Would not have been fun if that was the airbag lol

 

[caaf]

Yep, I dropped off the batt when changing over steering wheel controls. Two things I don't like working on, airbags and coil suspension. Good luck

 

[RayNixon]

OK.... SO.... FIXED....

Firstly, thanks for the help and diagram.

so what was it. this could happen to anyone...

at some point, the steering wheel controls have been changed out for controls from a standard VY...
i make this assumption because holden do not write "VY" in yellow marker on the parts before fitting.

now, i find mixed reports that the steering wheel control buttons light up on a VY SS... not sure if the original ones in this car ever did or not, but the illumination wire is there for the to light up... obviously the replacement buttons do not light up.


Shown here the wires going into the clock spring.
Brown (steering wheel control) | Brown/White (Illumination) | Black/White (Ground) | Black/Yellow (Horn) | (airbag)
i found that the Brown, and Brown/white wires were going straight to the steering wheel control wiring plug. This meant that without lights on i had a ground for the resister loop, but i had a +12v being fed back through the buttons to the brown wire while the lights were on.

so to fix this, i removed one of the pins from the steering wheel control plug (the pin that was going to the illumination wire) and through it to ground.
i did this using a crimp terminal, so i could return it to standard wiring if/when i put light up steering wheel controls back in

so all in all, very happy to have this fixed...

i hope this information helps as least one person at some time in the future.

 

[caaf]

Hey top marks on your determination! Very happy you sorted it all out.

 

[kiimsalam]

Hey guys, i know this is an old post, but ive bought a VY Series 2 steering wheel controls to fix my old one that was broken, and ive checked that this one has LEDs in them, my car is a series 1, so originally the controls that came with the car doesn't lit up, im trying to make use of the LEDs but im not sure which wire to patch them to, to get power.