Has anyone done it? I am interested in doing it with black suede...

 

how would it respond to your oily hands being on it every day?

not hating, just saying it might not be great on a daily drivin car.

 

Well.....Its hasn't been done, but if you want too do its going to expensive because its labor intensive to get the curves the wheels. I wanted to do it but it was going to cost like 450

 

^ that sounds about right. The vinyl on ours is easy because they can almost just melt it around and have the machine stitch it.

 

this is true, one of the bmw models has one though

 

buy driving gloves

 

If I were to try it, here's how I'd do it:

1. Get a salvage yard wheel, this is going to take awhile.
2. Using a razor, carefully cut the stitching all the way around the factory leather
3. buy some REAL pigskin suede. None of this fabric store fake crap. It will wear much better.
4. Lay out and trace the factory leathers onto the new suede using chalk.
5. punch holes for the new binding thread
6. reassemble/sew onto new wheel

 

If you had a spare wheel and a couple of punches and leather needles.........you could stitck a new one up using the old cover as a pattern in under 4 hours.........it should look pretty good too......I did it with leather on a old car once and it was not too hard to do and it came outperfect.....the tieoff is hard to do though......

 

You could do this:

http://www.wheelskins.com/index.php

 

I think that the green five axis tc had a stock steering wheel wrapped in suede, it's definitely been done, I would think it would be better to just get a new steering wheel, one that's fatter, and feels better in your hands for around the same price, if it would really cost around $450 to get it re-upholstered. I think Personal makes a leather steering wheel, with suede inserts that would probably work really well just my .02cents

 

yeah, one of the tC's did have it

 

my stock steering wheel wrapped with leather, and molded wood w/Carbon fiber look (thinking about redoing it in real CF t match my seats.
I got 3 stocks steering wheels If you are brave enough to attempt this mod.

 

 

pm'd

 

cxt do you have spec wheels, i have a tv and cant use my controls and hate looking at them, let me know we can do a trade or something

 

spec wheels? I got 05-06 wheels you wanting to trade your radio control one for a plain one? yeah I wouldn't mind doing that.

 

yeah the spec wheels dont have the radio controls, im about a hour and a half south of you, how hard is the swap?

 

wel I wouldn't know how to do it, so you would have to find somebody to do it. I payed a shop 50 bucks to swap mine out. Didn't seem that difficult.

 

ok ill look into it and pm you i really want to swap

 

cool I see a lot of people taking off the wheels themselves to put on racing wheels, so it shouldn't be that impossible.