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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: CS#433 on 19 May 2017, 11:02
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Have any other CS or CSS owners noticed wear on the steering wheel?
Mines has only done 3600 miles and noticed this morning that it is feels and looks a bit bald in the area where the right hand spoke meets the rim - obviously the part that gets held most as my is manual.
I expected the wheel to wear, but only after 3600 miles, 6mths old? Any owners with higher miles noticed this or could it be a quality issue with mine?
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Matt
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Have any other CS or CCS owners noticed wear on the steering wheel?
Not having a CS I'm not sure what material had been used if it's a velour type of material then wear will be a definite with prolonged periods in the same place.
Mines has only done 3600 miles and noticed this morning that it is feels and looks a bit bald in the area where the right hand spoke meets the rim - obviously the part that gets held most as my is manual.
I expected the wheel to wear, but only after 3600 miles, 6mths old? Any owners with higher miles noticed this or could it be a quality issue with mine?
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Matt
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"Not having a CS I'm not sure what material had been used if it's a velour type of material then wear will be a definite with prolonged periods in the same place"
Yes, on the CS & CSS the wheel is suede/alcantara like the seats. My basic maths say lets assume an average of 30mph over the cars life (most of my driving is motorways and a good chunk being a trip to Essex and back from Edinburgh but no way of knowing if that figure is representative) so over 3600 miles, thats 120hrs of using the wheel total. Even assume the "spot" in question is held all the time then is this what to expect? Be interested to see what other owners say, using similar maths.
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Back years ago when I had a Puma racing I put the nubuck(the stuff used to keep suede shows looking good) and although it didn't look new when I sold it with over 70k on it it looked a hell of a lot better than a friends car who had less than 30k on hers.
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If that wear according to the maths is correct, the seat material being the same, looks like your bums going to wear the seat as well!
All things being equal...the bigger the butt...the bigger the hole!!
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Back years ago when I had a Puma racing I put the nubuck(the stuff used to keep suede shows looking good) and although it didn't look new when I sold it with over 70k on it it looked a hell of a lot better than a friends car who had less than 30k on hers.
Thanks, may give that a try
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If that wear according to the maths is correct, the seat material being the same, looks like your bums going to wear the seat as well!
All things being equal...the bigger the butt...the bigger the hole!!
Only the side bolsters (i have the buckets in mine) are alcantara but I'll be keeping a close eye on them. That rate of wear on seats I think anyone would find unacceptable but not sure what to expect on the wheel as i have never had a 1 on a car before.
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Funnily enough I was going to ask a similar question a while back but never got round to it.
Mine has well under 1k on it so far and thankfully wear free but as soon as I saw pics of Clubsport steering wheels I thought 'uh oh' that'll wear badly. I wonder what the line will be on warranty claims. I had a MOMO steering wheel in a G40 many, many years ago that had a suede finish. I bought it second hand as the standard wheel was a plastic thing. I didn't do that many miles in the G40 as I had another car but the wheel still went bald. Thankfully I haven't yet. Mind you I kept the wheel and put it in several other cars that I had as runabouts afterwards and only threw it out a couple years ago when I moved and found it in the garage with a nice covering of mould on it when I opened the box.
Mrs LRWmotorsport has a Clubsport that does big miles so hopefully Mr LRW will see this thread.
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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.
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Wear gloves :wink:...LoL
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Wear gloves :wink:...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.
:whistle:
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^^^ 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.....
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You mean like this? :smiley:
(http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr225/crackerboxpal/DSCF0259.jpg) (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/crackerboxpal/media/DSCF0259.jpg.html)
(http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr225/crackerboxpal/DSCF0258.jpg) (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/crackerboxpal/media/DSCF0258.jpg.html)(http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr225/crackerboxpal/DSCF0257.jpg) (http://s486.photobucket.com/user/crackerboxpal/media/DSCF0257.jpg.html)
Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.
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Maybe another idea whilst the wheel's good try a trimmers and purchase same material/match now for in the future.
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Was gonna say gloves will make it worse.
That Tyrell wheel needs a frame.
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You mean like this? :smiley:
Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.
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Awesome. What did you do with/for Tyrrell?
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You mean like this? :smiley:
Treasured from my Tyrrell days - taken from Detroit GP winning 011 driven by the late Michele Alboreto, and he wore gloves.
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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.
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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?
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Swap with a regular wheel from ebay, as the only sure way?
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You mean like this? :smiley:
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! :cool:
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Bodge it?
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/XuJi-Black-Suede-Steering-Wheel-Cover-for-Volkswagen-Golf-7-GTI-Golf-R-MK7-VW-Polo/730986_32609688683.html
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Wheel and seats are trimmed in Alcantara - not suede, not nubuck, not leather. It's a man-made material and can be cleaned:
http://www.autofinesse.co.uk/alcantara-cleaning-guide/
Or, take the wheel off, cover the seats, in fact don't use the car at all in case of wear :huh: :grin:
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Wheel and seats are trimmed in Alcantara - not suede, not nubuck, not leather. It's a man-made material and can be cleaned:
http://www.autofinesse.co.uk/alcantara-cleaning-guide/
Or, take the wheel off, cover the seats, in fact don't use the car at all in case of wear :huh: :grin:
Thanks for the link. I've bookmarked it.
Any links to hair restorer for when it goes a bit bald? The wheel that is, not my noggin.
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yeah found the cleaning guide on Friday as well so picked up the auto finesse cleaner on Saturday but not had a chance to give it a try yet. On closer inspection though it looks less bald and more flattened or at least that's what I'm hoping for :smiley:
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Warranty claim?
Just normal wear and tear I think Trev.
This is where it's starting to show (not very clear in pic).
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/LRWMotorsport/IMG_3911_zpsnbzdqkxc.jpg)
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I think I read in a German forum that some with high miles (or very tight grips?) were getting their steering wheels replaced under warranty. Which given that I got a long warranty left (2y + 3y extension) made me think I'll actually just go ahead and use it like I normally would, then in case of excessive wear I'll just ask for a replacement (before the 5 years) and only then I'll start worry about preservation... Would be good to confirm if they are getting replaced though.
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Video on the pro's & cons of alcantara....
3 mins 50 in discusses wear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebUNgMhQV4&feature=push-u&attr_tag=_Sl5INjwroVwtYtM-6
( I don't think anyone has told him the gorilla is not real, probably for the best? ;) )
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Video on the pro's & cons of alcantara....
3 mins 50 in discusses wear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebUNgMhQV4&feature=push-u&attr_tag=_Sl5INjwroVwtYtM-6
( I don't think anyone has told him the gorilla is not real, probably for the best? ;) )
It's a monkey :whistle:
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Video on the pro's & cons of alcantara....
3 mins 50 in discusses wear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebUNgMhQV4&feature=push-u&attr_tag=_Sl5INjwroVwtYtM-6
( I don't think anyone has told him the gorilla is not real, probably for the best? ;) )
Thanks, the video answers the question, basically expect the steering wheel to wear quickly. :sad:
However I did give it a clean tonight based on the auto finesse video, and using the AF product and I have noticed it looks a lot better. When I bought the car it had done 2200miles so I assummed it couldn't have been that dirty however the red alcantara part at the top of the wheel never looked very bright. It almost looked like some of the grey had dyed it a little. I was wrong, a little clean and it has come up bright red again so this shows how dirty the wheel got.
My advice to anyone doing it is just to be patient and be gentle. Before I used the cleaner, although it doesn't say to do it, I gently brushed the wheel first just to see if the piles would fluff up. They didn't but I did see a lot of dust (dead skin I guess). I then cleaned it using very little cleaner and just been out to see how it has dried and it looks and feels much better. There is only 1 small part I think I'll give another go.
So I guess even though the car was used by the manager, the sponge monkeys and techs were not that bothered about clean hands when working on it.