JK steering wheel controls.

[Rod Harrison]

Hi.
Looking for advice on the steering wheel volume and track up, down buttons on my 2012 JKU.

I've recently had a few flat battery occurrences and when load tested the battery was failing so it was replaced. Since then how ever my steering wheel buttons started playing up.

First the volume down button stopped responding intermittently then finally stopped altogether. Then the track down button failed intermittently then stopped working altogether.

At this point I thought the buttons themselves were broken, but then yesterday the track down button decided it was now the volume up button. ???

Have any of you guys seen similar behaviour?

At this point I am considering a complete cold restart of the electrical system. Take off Pos lead and ground it also turn on everything I can to be sure that there is no electrical activity at all in the car. Then reconnect and let the whole thing startup.

Thoughts please.

Regards,
Rod

[st_za]

I would check the clock spring and the connectors inside the steering wheel first, looking for pinched wires and loose connecters. Did you have your clock spring replaced under the recall a few years ago?

[Rod Harrison]

The clock spring was replaced in that recall but is now my main suspect regarding this problem, but still possibly the vol down button itself.

Yesterday I labotomized the vehicle. Disconnected the battery, grounded the pos terminal and switched on everything I could to drain any electrical activity still in the systems. Factory reset if you like. Left it like that for a few hours then started it all up again. Other odd behaviour of the track select switch is gone but vol down button is still dead. Not sure if I want to go to all of the effort and expense changing the clock spring for something this trivial but may be forced to if further problems with the controls become evident.

There are quite a few sources of aftermarket clock springs out there at sane prices but the OEM replacement is an outrageous price. Anybody had experience with these cheaper units.

Regards,
Rod.