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Originally Posted by BTECH.au
Hi Everyone,
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to my horror it does not have paddles on the steering wheel. I know that there have been some MY11 changes since I placed my order, but in both the original brochure AND the current one, paddles are standard on Automatic 23ds. ...
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Same thing happened to me. Mine was one of the first MY11 builds at the end of October. If you have a look under the bonnet lid there is a plaque with the build date on it. When I ordered it BMW was selling it with paddles on the Auto option but nowhere on the options list did it mention it specifically. Car came without paddles and when I asked the dealer he said that the paddles became an optional extra over and above the auto with the MY11 build. As mine was ordered before MY11 for build/delivery after the MY11 changeover it never flagged up on their system. To say I was pi$$ed off is an understatement, but you know what, I don't miss it to be honest. Yours will still have the triptronic feature which is probably more like a manual anyway.
Couldn't let them get away with it though so managed to scrounge a few freebies for my missing paddles.
Oh, and dealer says they cannot retrofit in their workshop.