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Originally Posted by Mped
Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I'll have to introduce myself properly some other time but real quickly in October I bought a '17 Mineral Gray 6MT with some M performance bits (including the exhaust) already installed. This car is awesome!
I have found an easy solution to the Bluetooth controller that has annoyed me from the beginning and now that it is colder is causing me more problems.
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Some backstory to clear this up. In 2004 I had a VW R32 that had a computer controlled exhaust valve and someone on the forums found the wire that just needed to be grounded to open the valve. Just install a simple toggle switch to ground and  so I figured I might find the same solution for the mpe.
I started testing the wires at the control box to see what I could find and found that grounding that wire would open the valves. So you can either run a wire up into the cabin and get a toggle switch or one of the fancy billet buttons or you can follow CG Precision's lead like I did and control it with your homelink.
I bought an RF remote relay https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A6VOI6Y?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details and a pack of Posi-Tap inline wire taps. The relay can be programmed to operate a few different ways. I run my set up in toggle mode, one homelink button opens and a different button closes the valves. You can also run in latched mode where one button does both. Here's how I wired it. Green to green (a little hard to see but it's in the 4th connection), black wire(s) to ground and red to power.
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I picked a fuse in the fusebox that is always powered and installed a Bussmann BP/HHH-RP ATM Mini Add-A-Circuit so that the RF switch will stay closed (if the relay loses power the switch opens) and therefore the valves stay open when I start the car if I want.
Of course I am not responsible if you fry your electrical system. I'll be happy to answer any questions if I can.
This is what the finished install looks like.
Mark |
Wow. Well done. There's been years of talk here on the forum about a non-Bluetooth switch for the MPE valve!!