CS steering wheel wear

[Exonian]

Wear gloves ...LoL

I've been thinking about robbing a box of crappy plastic gloves from by the Diesel pumps in the garage for driving the CS so the furry steering wheels stays fluffy.
 

[CS#433]

^^^ cheers guys.

So what we can tell is at <1k no signs of wear, at 4k starting to show and >10k begining to go bald.

I'm not one for taking things off my cars to keep good for the next owner as at the end of the day I paid for it so why shouldn't I have the pleasure? But equally I don't want the car to be let down by a shabby steering wheel. I guess a new wheel from VW would be expensive so makes it a bit of a costy thing to replace every year of avergae mileage.

Might need to start driving with the OH's oven gloves on.....

[CHB100]

You mean like this?



Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.

[golfhappy]

Maybe another idea whilst the wheel's good try a trimmers and purchase same material/match now for in the future.

[LRWmotorsport]

Was gonna say gloves will make it worse.

That Tyrell wheel needs a frame.

[phazer]

You mean like this?

Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.

<offtopic>
Awesome. What did you do with/for Tyrrell?

[CHB100]

You mean like this?

Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.

<offtopic>
Awesome. What did you do with/for Tyrrell?

Built the tubs (chassis) from !980-1985 at the woodyard. Great times in F1, cosworths, manual boxes. The history JS, The 6 wheeler and danger of it.  So Sad  Michele was a lovely guy.

[TurboTrev]

The present Mrs LRWmotorsport has clocked up 12K since November .

The wheel is wearing in the same place as you describe near both the right and left spokes.
Didn't notice it until circa 10K.

It might be me with my double-handed death grip causing the wear as Mrs LRW adopts the gangster one handed approach to car control.

I was planning to order a replacement wheel from VW while still available. The current wheel (as much like myself) will soon be as bald as a Coot.

Warranty claim?

[david25]

Swap with a regular wheel from ebay, as the only sure way?

[phazer]

You mean like this?

Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.

<offtopic>
Awesome. What did you do with/for Tyrrell?

Built the tubs (chassis) from !980-1985 at the woodyard. Great times in F1, cosworths, manual boxes. The history JS, The 6 wheeler and danger of it.  So Sad  Michele was a lovely guy.

Cheers, what a great (and at times bizarre) era to have been involved in!