Anyone had problems with steering wheel?

[DubFan]

I'm hoping to get my G reg (small bumper) Mk2 16v GTI on the road this week, but when I've been manouvering it around the drive some black stuff has been coming off the steering wheel in my hands.

Anyone else had this problem?
Is it just years of dirt build up or is the wheel actually disintegrating?

It's the later model style wheel, the one with the big square horn section in the middle.
I could just go get another wheel from the scrappy.

Thoughts?

[Veedubgt18v]

yeah i had a driver that did this looked like the rubbings off a pencil rubber, i just ignored it and it went after a while, i had a proper shiny steering wheel tho!

[Gozza]

probably just where it has been sitting and got a lil damp.

[jedi16v]

9 times out of ten it,s going to be build up of dirt . all those thounsands of miles of grubby mitt's.