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D.I.Y. Freak
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Hi,
I purchased a 2011 Mondeo MC LX 2 weeks ago after researching various options for some time. One misgiving was adding a car to our family fleet that had the indicators on the other (left) side. My wife's car is a Nissan and my Toyota was handed on to my P-plated son. Another son is also on L-plates. Also at work I drive various Toyota pool cars so was not really keen to add L/H indicator switch into the mix. So, after a little bit of research I purchased a switch set from a 2012 Focus LW. I had planned to buzz out the wiring, modify the looms, and alter anything required but was pleasantly surprised to find the whole assembly fitted perfectly without any modification required. I plugged it in and it worked immediately!! I did have to loose the phone buttons and the voice command button that were on the Mondeo indicator stalk. No problem for me. Photos to follow. |
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D.I.Y. Freak
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Focus switch set purchased on ebay for $125
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/FORD-FOC...19.m1438.l2649 |
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D.I.Y. Freak
Join Date: Jan 2018
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Removed steering wheel etc as per following Youtube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MqcXJIQxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCTEQzw-zTE |
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Goulburn NSW
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I like the idea of a lever swap but I would really miss the phone buttons - I use these all the time.
You get used to turning the wipers on in corners when you swap cars - happens to me all the time.....
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Dayum! that's cool. Yeah Bundy I like the Phone controls too but typically for hanging up calls.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Keep it as is.
Those euro designs are civilised, steer and indicate with the left hand, drink coffee with the right ! I used those phone buttons a lot too. |
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Goulburn NSW
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Quote:
Also a problem while trying to inhale a servo pie whilst driving.....
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Dubbo, formerly Canberra
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This is an awesome idea and I may have to copy. Having just been turned onto the benefits of using manual mode to navigate roundabouts (through this very forum), I find the juggling necessary to operate the sequential shift and the indicators on one hand very annoying.
Interestingly the Titanium doesn't have phone buttons on the indicator stalk, but a switch to toggle the lane departure warning system on and off. (Call and hang up gets soft-mapped to the steering wheel menu buttons when a call is taking place, but I always used the buttons on the head unit anyway.) Lane departure is fully configurable through the Convers+ menus anyway, so that's even less of a loss. I wonder if there's a set of stalks with a button to keep the voice control though. Can you share any of your research sources that informed this conversion? |
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D.I.Y. Freak
Join Date: Jan 2018
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My research largely consisted of looking at pictures and checking out possible options at wreckers based on the physical setup as I as quite ready to do some re-wiring.
After I discovered that the Focus LW (from 2011-) had been switched the R/H indicator by FORD to increase sales it seem obvious to start there. The Focus and and Mondeo must share much of the same wiring too. If I were you I would try and find a Focus Titanium steering wheel too. It's probably got all the buttons you need too. |
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Dubbo, formerly Canberra
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Thanks for the pointers. So you took a punt and it turned out to be a plug-and-play replacement, neat.
I did notice in pictures that some LW Focus appear to have a lane departure button on the blinker stalk. I've also noticed in pictures that the MD Mondeo has a right-side blinker and the stalks appear to be the same physical design - and also that LV Focus stalks look quite similar to MC Mondeo. So it seems quite possible that they do share the same components. I wouldn't have expected them to reuse parts between different models as there always seems to be something specific to each but maybe they actually do for once here. |
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