steering wheel alignment

[Wayne]

If your tracking is spot on but your steering wheel is still out, just remove and straighten.

What if you have an airbag ?, does it not use a slip ring/rotory coupler for the wireing that is keyed to the back of the wheel ?

If it does, then moving the wheel round could break the rotory couplings ribbon on full lock..

Not sure how its done on a golf....

Oh hang on, its 91 J, no airbag then ? 

Even if you have an airbag it is easy enough to remove the steering wheel.

[Oilburner]

Not really relevant for the MK2/3 'ers, but you can't just move the steering wheel position on modern cars because of the the sensor on the column that detects ESP/ASC

Had this on my Mk5, once I payed my deposit, the dealer put the car through MOT and replaced 2 tyres but one on the right rear and the other on the left front (dodgy incompetence). So after doing my nut, they swapped the wheels round and did the tracking and camber on the big 4 wheel rig. Drove away from the dealer and the steering wheel was sitting quite a bit of to the right when driving straight ahead. Went back, did my nut again, and knowing the tracking was spot on they simply popped off the wheel and moved it straight. I watched them do it (being a bit  ) and it can be moved a few splines from side to side without disturbing the ESP sensor, presumably to allow for this kind of minor adjustment when the tracking etc is all spot on...