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refurbishing an old steering wheel

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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 · 26 Mar 2009, 2:10 pm

#703161

I have an old deepdish sports steering wheel. It's trimmed and leather. the leather has perished though and the padding has seen better days. Two questions;

1. where can I get some new padding for it?
I like something firm, like hard foam rubber. Who sells it in Sydney?

2. How hard would it be to stitch it up myself?

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Blue65 Officially Full-On Dubber

298 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 4 Jun 2009, 11:16 pm

#716702

I don't know about the foam. But I bought a cheap wrap around vinyl imitation leather steering wheel wrap around for my Beetle. It came with a string which you used to wrap around the wheel like a ballerina shoe strap.

It actually looks good and it only cost $5 from Autobarn. I purchased it during a sale.

Its held perfectly well for over 10 years. And has no holding problems.

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