Steering wheel upgrades

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by davintosh

Nice upgrade, RB! Did you have the sport wheel to begin with and transfer your switches, airbag, et al to the new one?

I've been thinking about doing something with the wheel in the X5; some of the stitching is loose. I probably should do something with that before it gets any worse (funny thing is that two of my other cars with leather wrapped wheels have loose stitching in the same area, lower-left. Weird.)

Yes Dave, my X has sport package so my wheel was the same, the new wheel came without trim pieces, multifunction buttons, and the airbag "cage", but all is very easily swapped over to the new wheel. There are 3 screws for the airbag holder, two screws on the bottom trim piece and 2 screws on the inside that hold the multifunction buttons down. Very easy swap!

Do you have the sport wheel? You literally can have my old wheel if you do, and just swap your buttons/trim and airbag to it if you want to refresh, its in the basement just pay me for shipping, its in good shape with no stitching loose, I only have 69k miles so its probably less worn than yours.