Ooh, it's all leathery

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 02/13/2017 at 17:45 • Filed to: None

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New steering wheel installed today. Leather wrap instead of the previous all plastic version. There are now a few more buttons but they don’t do anything on my model; perhaps I’ll wire up my iPod control to one of them. I did lose the mute button, but I never used it anyway, preferring to tap the center knob on the stereo for that function. There were a couple of wires that were cut on this wheel which were probably for the horn. Not taking any chances that they may be related to the airbag I made sure to solder and heatshrink them.

Thanks to good ol’ YouTube, it was a pretty simple task. And TIL that there are cool aftermarket wheels that allow you to transplant the button assemblies on to a fancier, sportier wheel so that you don’t lose any functionality.

Now it’s time to do the shifter bezel. I just need to find all of the E34 parts, do some cutting and gluing and get rid of that eyesore I’ve been using for the last few months.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/13/2017 at 18:27

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Here’s a cool aftermarket steering wheel with the factory buttons/controls/airbag installed, something I didn’t realize was possible until today.