« Reply #206 on: 27 November 2019, 14:52 »
I was a huge fan of the chunkier sculpted steering wheels of the mk5 and mk6 GTI/R, I always felt the mk7 standard steering wheel a bit lacking in the tactile sense (the Alcantara of the CS and perforated leather of the TCR goes some way to address this).
Back in the days before airbags (or more specifically before I could afford cars with airbags) I’d swap out the plastic VW steering wheel and add a Momo or Personal wheel and it does make a difference to driving pleasure.
I was a bit taken aback by quite how thick the M135i steering wheel was though. It felt like a bit of scaffold pole covered in leather.
I actually quite liked it but there must be a Goldilocks thickness where the mk7 ‘wheel is a bit weedy and the 135 wheel a bit beefy.
I have girls hands btw. Mind you, you’d not want to go on a date with a girl that had hands like mine!
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