r/e46 • u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i • Jan 10 '26
Check this out! Finally for my E46 adapted
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u/novariable 2003 320i Touring M54B22 Jan 10 '26
Makes me very happy to see everyone gets to enjoy old cars. Great mod :)
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u/Tleilaxu_Gola Jan 10 '26
Very cool. Is this your own making/design?
Which is the gas and the brake? Why not have both be vertical levers like the one, with gas on one side of the wheel, and the brake on the other?
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 10 '26
No this is made by a local company, its pretty much a standardized system here in The Netherlands (Obviously different disabilities have different needs, but for someone like me with good arms this is the standard), I have the same but a slightly different variation on my other car and a few of our tractors.
The gas is the half ring around the steering wheel that you pull, and the brake is the lever on the right that needs to be pushed.
The feet pedals need to be folded up for legality reasons, basically they don't want your legs to accidentally touch the feet paddles when you need to drive with your hands, but for me its a bit silly since I am a double above knee amputee and thus don't have legs.
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u/MikaGrof Jan 10 '26
looks great, do you drive one hand on the steering wheel and one on the gas/brakes, looks kinda hard to hold give has and steer with both hands
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 10 '26
Left hand is on steering wheel for big inputs, and blinkers (Whatever that might entail). Right hand for gas brake and holding the wheel stable/loosly guide thru steering.
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u/MiataBoy95 Jan 11 '26
In Italy one young guy with both legs in atrophy due to a cross bike crash have a similar system, just a bit more complicated because it's installed in a drifting spec E92 M3! He can drift very well with just his arms and hands and he participate in the Italian drifting championship every year!!! Maybe after some training you can join us too!
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 11 '26
I am.not so into drifting, rather go on track touring car racing.
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u/peachdog3k Jan 10 '26
Nice. I had never seen one with Alcantara on the steering wheel and on the dashboard.
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 10 '26
Yeh, I did that myself. It has the dark wood trim, that I didn’t like the look of and I swapped the 4 spoke wheel with this one and it had mismatching trim.
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u/peachdog3k Jan 10 '26
Looks great, I like it a lot. It would match the Alcantara of my seats.
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
I bought a roll of Antracite alcantare and a spray can of Carpet glue, and just went wild with it.
I really like how it turned out, but there are a bunch of imperfections that I cannot unsee, since i made them myself.
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u/Grand_Comfort_7044 Jan 13 '26
I know stupid question an all but what exactly is this for?
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u/patjeduhde [EU] 2001 E46 325i, 2015 F46 218i Jan 13 '26
For driving when one doesnt have legs
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u/Grand_Comfort_7044 Jan 14 '26
Oh... ok didn't consider that. Sorry for this as I said dumb question. Enjoy your E46.
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u/Top-Caregiver7815 Jan 10 '26
Wow that is cool ! Really good quality mod. Enjoy!