Random steering wheel recovering.
Nothing wrong with this old SAAS wheel apart from being slippery as hell and poxy plastic timber.
It came on the blue/green Mirage - the one that isn’t power steered… No idea how the previous owner coped with it as a daily (she’s not a princess, but even so…).
Step 1: Sand the surface to make it less slippery .
Step 2: Cut down the faux suede cover so it fits better.
Step 3: get the trimmer to sew it back together, and add a row of stitching on the edge that was removed.
Step 4: Sew it on, and do a terrible job…
Short version is that I needed to muscle it more, my technique sucked (but got better) and that I probably cut it a bit too narrow.
Also made a mistake by forgetting to secure the original stitching at the join - this took away a bunch of loops near the join. I overcame this with some … um… creativity …
At this point, it was only ever going to be a race car steering wheel, so I decided to experiment with covering the ends of the spokes.
First spoke:
Second…
Third…
Obviously not show quality, but I got better with each one, so that is encouraging.
Glueing some small offcuts into the gaps makes it look a lot better. Presentable for a race car.
The cover is very secure on the wheel and it feels much better than the shiny plastic.
I won’t do another one unless I inherit another poxy wheel - a decent new suede covered wheel is $80 on ebay - $15 for the cover means that I spend a couple of solid hours and got an inferior result to save $65.