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Old 01-02-2022, 03:25 PM   #1
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Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

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Old 01-03-2022, 08:05 AM   #2
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

I hope you get a good response....I asked this a yr or so ago and never got a real answer
I ,was/still am ,wanting to do my old wheel so it looks factory and not cheesy..
And sure dont want these results
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Old 01-03-2022, 11:02 AM   #3
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I hope you get a good response....I asked this a yr or so ago and never got a real answer
I ,was/still am ,wanting to do my old wheel so it looks factory and not cheesy..
And sure dont want these results
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Old 01-03-2022, 11:07 AM   #4
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

I had a thread a few years back, just asking for steering wheel pictures. There’s one in there that was wrapped. I swapped mine for a Forever Sharp wheel. I really like it a lot better than the stock wheel.
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Old 01-03-2022, 02:05 PM   #5
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

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I hope you get a good response....I asked this a yr or so ago and never got a real answer
I ,was/still am ,wanting to do my old wheel so it looks factory and not cheesy..
And sure dont want these results
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The skinny plastic steering wheels used on the squarebodies don't lend themselves to leather wrap.

I would look into wrapping one of the larger diameter wheels that GM used in the 1988-1994 GMT400 C/K series and 1988-1991 R/V series squarebody SUV.
The early 1990's GMT400 SS and Sport truck models had factory leather wrapped wheels but good luck finding one.
Some of the Astro and fullsize G series vans are rumored to have used similar but not exactly the same wheels as early as 1985.
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This is a faux leather wheel from a 1988-1994 GMC CK truck.
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Four spoke F body, J body (Cavalier etc) and A body Celebrity steering wheels are another option. They probably used similar or the same wheels on the X body (Chevy Citation & similar rigs from Buick, Olds, and Pontiac).
This is an early 1970's Chevelle SS wheel... Same as the J body wheel with an SS horn button and an earlier date code.
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This is a Chris-Fix howto on installing new leather wheel wrap using a baseball stitch and curved needles. Tedious and time consuming but not terribly difficult.
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Old 01-03-2022, 06:41 PM   #6
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

Have you looked at Wheelskins?https://wheelskins.com/ I'm very happy with mine.
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

Bhc...that's what I was hoping to see back when I asked..
Wheelskins is the ones i was looking at...I just couldnt find anyone that had used them
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Old 01-04-2022, 12:51 PM   #8
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Have you looked at Wheelskins?https://wheelskins.com/ I'm very happy with mine.
That looks a lot better than I would've guessed on the skinny diameter stock steering wheel ring. Nice work.
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Old 01-06-2022, 05:05 PM   #9
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Re: Anyone here leather wrap your steering wheel?

Yeah, that looks good. I wonder if a little bit of wettng it with a sponge and letting it dry would shrink it tight up against the wheel. Too much and it might pull on the stitches, but anyway, I like that.
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