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Your E46 steering wheel is an airbag: the one date that decides every swap
An E46 steering wheel is the driver airbag. What decides fit: airbag generation, wiring for buttons and paddles, wheel family. From BMW's own documents.
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Articles about steering wheel
What we learn while building the configurators: changeovers, part families, the traps. Every article names its sources and how sure we are.
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'M-Tech' is not a steering wheel: a translation guide from forum slang to BMW's own names
Forum names like M-Tech, M-Tech 2 and xenons are not in BMW's parts catalogue. A glossary of what BMW actually calls E46 bumpers, steering wheels and lights.
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