Help With Aftermaket Steering Wheel
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Looking to install an aftermarket steering wheel like the ones made by Nardi. Can anyone help me figure out what's needed to make the install happen? I appreciate any input you folks can give me & definitely do a build log for the forums as well. Aloha from Hawaii.
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You cannot install an after-market wheel (the thin wood-rimmed) in a modern (electroncially-loaded) car. What would you do with the cruise control, audio and phone controls...? The Nardi and similar wheels are for pre-90's cars..Steering wheels used to have a simple steering ad horn function. Now they are far more complicated and model-specific.
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The controls on my steering wheel doesn't serve me as much as it does others. My radio controls on it are inoperative because I have an aftermarket stereo system & my cruise control function is rarely used because here in Hawaii I'm never traveling more than 30 miles. Would my best bet be opting for a factory wood grain wheel? Mines is just the plain leather wrap model.
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It isn't that wheels can't be swapped...they can, with various degrees of difficulty.
The biggest problem is that the X uses a rather unusual hex mount rather than a spline.
It would be possible to have an adapter created; but we are talking laser-cut or waterjet rather than machining.
That said, I was on a car site a few weeks ago...IIRC it was a Russian site...where a 2009 Estate had a wheel that looked like it came from an f-type. I haven't done any research on that, though.
Many of us are pleased to take out the bulky leather wheel and replace it with the later wood-and-leather wheel; the wheel swap itself is easy, but if your car is pre-2004.5, it takes some electronic surgery at the SMD level to make the cruise control work. Later models will either play right out of the box, or with a quick reprogram.
The biggest problem is that the X uses a rather unusual hex mount rather than a spline.
It would be possible to have an adapter created; but we are talking laser-cut or waterjet rather than machining.
That said, I was on a car site a few weeks ago...IIRC it was a Russian site...where a 2009 Estate had a wheel that looked like it came from an f-type. I haven't done any research on that, though.
Many of us are pleased to take out the bulky leather wheel and replace it with the later wood-and-leather wheel; the wheel swap itself is easy, but if your car is pre-2004.5, it takes some electronic surgery at the SMD level to make the cruise control work. Later models will either play right out of the box, or with a quick reprogram.
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