Installing a New STI Steering Wheel on Older Subaru 

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old post but could you post a video or update to this. I also have an 07 Forester I want to do this to.

Hey Ash, any updates on if you got your audio SWC functions to work?

Jaedon Haskins have you done it yet?

Have u done it??

lol of course he hasnt done it yet, I have the 09 impreza wheel and want to put it in my 04 forester too, I think the cruise control is completely incompatible with the older wiring

Thanks man I try and keep it direct unlike some other channels out there

The good news is I found a guy who made a write-up of how to hook up all the buttons which saves me some headache. I tested it and it worked. The bad news is I only did it temporarily because it takes some splicing and I'm moving and haven't had the time to do it properly. legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/install-steering-wheel-radio-controls-26232.html I will eventually do this and make a video for it but for those who are interested and can't wait, thank that guy!

Awesome video! I'm about to try this on a 15 STi wheel going into my 06 STi. I'm sure I can splice the cruise controls in, but I would love to be able to connect the illumination, stereo & bluetooth controls too. I'm just not sure if I will be able to get those wires hooked up to the roll connector, since the 06 STi never had any steering wheel controls. I have an aftermarket headunit & I know they make modules for steering controls. I guess I'll find out. Lol.

He has an android tablet i believe and not the factory head unit. I dont think you would be able to unless you had a head unit with the steering wheel option controls.

I didn't have to do anything I didn't show here. There is a thread somewhere out there where the guy splices the circuit board but it's entirely not necessary, at least for the Legacy it's not.

Maybe try Throtl? It basically shows for sale threads from several different car forums in one place.

Thanks. I'm not sure if it's possible to do this with a single wire airbag. At minimum you'd need to change the roll connector to work with the airbag but you'd then need to check if that roll connector connects to your car harness.

(I mistakenly posted this in the third video yesterday) So it seems my application is a bit different. As for my single stage airbag, it seems that was all that was required for the Impreza. That connector is all that controls the bag. So we're good there. As for the roll connector, I have the 8 available pins, 5 + 3 as yours does. What's different however, is that my green 5-pin connector contains all the original cruise control lever wires, listed in order: red, black, yellow, white, green. There is no white, 3-pin connector like you have. Also, the green wire has another length of green wire soldered to it, and that longer green wire grounds to the steering wheel frame. And as I'm looking at all of the wires, completely freed of its shrink tubing, it appears these bluetooth buttons were designed and added AFTER the audio and cruise switches were designed, like an afterthought. The bluetooth buttons have three wires; the black and red control power and illumination (tested with 9v battery), and the yellow wire seems to be the resistor wire. Now, if I'm looking at this correctly, the 8-pins available on the 2005 roll connector coincide with the 8-pins from the 2011 steering wheel harness. The red and black wires control the illumination on the SW switches... that right there tells me that I could tap the red and black from the bluetooth buttons, leaving the yellow communication wire. Could this yellow bluetooth wire be spliced into the SW yellow switch wire, and... could it be?? All wires would be connected and, if resistor values are different, then it should, theoretically work? What say you?

pretty sure you will need an aftermarket headunit for that

I'd like to know as well on the audio as I have the newer radio from a legacy that the controls are also on the steering wheel

the way he did it I doubt the steering wheel controls would ever work, since he reused his old clockspring, if you use the clockspring with the connectors you can literally just buy the kit meant for the car the steering wheel comes out of and it just plugs right in

A) the airbag covers are very different between the 2 B) sort of.. had some issues with one part I'm working on. Watch for it soon

@@RyansGadgetGarage- Appreciate the reply, I'll definitely be subscribing! I have a 05 LGT MT wagon too so loving the content so far. One thing that would be cool is if you showed a little more detail in your videos. Like for this one, wouldve been nice if you showed the wiring part in some more detail.

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Yes, check out the later videos, everything works

Thank you!

I'm about to put a 15 STi wheel in my 06 STi. I'll post a video on my channel when I do it. My wheel is coming in at the end of the week, & I still need to figure out if I can add the steering controls to mine, since the 06's never had them to begin with.

Read the code and figure out why you have a CEL before you do anything else

@@RPGarage one of the pins on the green connector wasn't seated properly and I no longer have check engine light or flashing cruise. But now for some reason the sport-funtction on my transmittion is locked to first gear and cruise won't engage to hold a speed🤔 this is quite a head scratcher and I'm tempted to just depin the four pins agien and just leaving it as it is 😂

And also, did the leds in the buttons work? I do believe they are red in 08+ wheels? While we have green in the earlier models?

No doubt, you could put one in an 02 if you wanted to as well. If the only problem with the wheel is its worn, I would just pick up a new wheel. I'm planning on picking up a damd for myself, I got a 2012 wheel in my 07.

@@Madvillian Hey, is there limitations? Or can I put an 19 subie wheel on my 2006 subie?

@@SweixNOR I'm pretty certain you could, It really just comes down to learning which wire does what and matching to the old harness.

@@SweixNOR You're gonna have to run wires from your radio through the roll connector for the audio buttons and illumination

@@SweixNOR This is for 08-14 wheel but it should somewhat helpful

Hey Pablo, 2 things determine whether the wheel is compatible - the wheel hub itself and the airbag. Here's an easy way to determine whether the hub will be compatible: www.avojdm.com/product_info.php?cPath=65_71&products_id=177 and scroll down to "applied models" Anything that's listed for any of those cars will fit on the steering wheel hub on your 2007-2009 Liberty/Legacy. After that all you need to do is hook up the airbag and controls. For anyone with an 05/06, anything listed there will also work on your car IF you change to a later model airbag.

Probably yes

I was wondering the same thing. The wheel he took off looks exactly like mine. Even the cruise control is identical. I think I'm just going to go for it.

Have you found any information on this

I'm planning the same thing in my 04 Forester. if you make any progress, please let us know!

Cey Wut ive been wanting to do this on a 05 fozzy. pls tell me you were able to do it.

It's actually a custom gauge pod I bought off a guy that fiberglasses it into the regular a-pillar.. I'm thinking of buying some junkyard ones and trying it out myself on my new Legacy

If it has the same steering wheel as the 05 legacy gt it should, if not then probably will not work

This car literally doesn't exist anymore dude it crapped out a few months after this video

Yeah I looked at that before I did mine but I didn't find it too useful. Take a look a little further down in the comments and I posted a link to a good write-up. If you do what's in there then they should light up and all of the buttons will be fully functional. It's just that the button backlights aren't grounded in my video I believe.

Yea, I was wondering if your cruise functioned right. I know the thread is from an 05' STi but your plugs and wiring look the same. The thread used diodes to separate functions but I'm wondering if that's an 05 vs 06 "thing". Did you ever get the radio controls/volume to work? Appreciate your response I hope to tackle this soon!

The way they do it there may work but I found that overly complicated. The cruise on mine works like factory and as I said further down I did throw the necessary wiring together quickly and confirmed that the stereo controls can be wired up I just didn't have the time to splice them permanently. The way mine stands right now is the cruise is fully functional and I know how to get the lights and stereo controls to work I just haven't made it a priority to do it yet. Check here: legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/install-steering-wheel-radio-controls-26232.html

Is this possible with an 04 FXT