Those of you who've seen pix of my Vette's interior know that the steering wheel is rather shabby. Rather than drop $300 on a replacement, I decided to look at steering wheel covers.
I settled on one made by Wheelskins (www.wheelskins.com) and sold through Cruise Control Auto Accessories (www.cruisecontrolauto.com - they have a discount available to Corvette Forum members; not sure if they do for here as well). I paid $33.75, shipped, for their two-color (Eurotone) model.
Anyway, it looks good. The skin is specifically for the C4 Vette (and I think varies for the variosu wheel sizes as well). It does require stitching into place, but they provide very thick waxed thread and a good needle.
Only real issue is that it doesn't lay quite right around the spokes because they're fairly wide. Then again, I may not have installed it quite the best.
So. It installed in about 45 minutes of repetitive stitching and is nice and tight. I chose black and sand, which is the closest I could get to saddle. I like.
Also, the guy at Cruise Control Auto is very nice. When he saw my original order (black/light oak) he wasn't sure it would match my interior well enough so he *called* me from Georgia to check, and then sent me out a couple of different color samples. I emailed him with my corrected choice on Thursday, and the skins were waiting when I got home from work Monday.
Anyway, I can provide pix if anyone's interested, but this seems like a decent alternative to a new wheel. The spokes are still munged, but at a 10th of the cost of replacement, I'm satisfied.
I settled on one made by Wheelskins (www.wheelskins.com) and sold through Cruise Control Auto Accessories (www.cruisecontrolauto.com - they have a discount available to Corvette Forum members; not sure if they do for here as well). I paid $33.75, shipped, for their two-color (Eurotone) model.
Anyway, it looks good. The skin is specifically for the C4 Vette (and I think varies for the variosu wheel sizes as well). It does require stitching into place, but they provide very thick waxed thread and a good needle.
Only real issue is that it doesn't lay quite right around the spokes because they're fairly wide. Then again, I may not have installed it quite the best.
So. It installed in about 45 minutes of repetitive stitching and is nice and tight. I chose black and sand, which is the closest I could get to saddle. I like.
Also, the guy at Cruise Control Auto is very nice. When he saw my original order (black/light oak) he wasn't sure it would match my interior well enough so he *called* me from Georgia to check, and then sent me out a couple of different color samples. I emailed him with my corrected choice on Thursday, and the skins were waiting when I got home from work Monday.
Anyway, I can provide pix if anyone's interested, but this seems like a decent alternative to a new wheel. The spokes are still munged, but at a 10th of the cost of replacement, I'm satisfied.