Was that a D-shaped wheel? I know most D-shaped Corvette wheels are not cheap but the standard style ones are in about the price range you mention.Happy with my Corvette Grand Sport wheel, and you can't beat the price. I think it was around $200.
Though, despite what I said previously, I will change my position on the alcantara. It was great for a few years, but slowly moisture has really killed it. Unless your car is only ever parked in a climate controlled, humidity controlled garage, and you only ever use driving gloves, then I'd say go with the leather wheel.
It is a matter of what you like when talking custom items. But yea, that sounds about right for the alcantara round Corvette wheels. I'm surprised that didn't hold up though. I thought that was supposed to be very durable.No, just the old fashioned round kind. ?
The flat bottomed wheels never did anything for me, personally.
Happy with my Corvette Grand Sport wheel, and you can't beat the price. I think it was around $200.
It is the C6 wheel that is identical...and we mean identical. You could swap it out but unless you get the Alcantara one, it's going to be the exact same thing. All your controls and air bag swap from one wheel to the other. The image of my custom wheel from So Cal Garage Works (also known as SCGW...see image attached) shows the part of the steering wheel you are swapping. All the other parts you switch over from your current wheel once you have it off the car.Is the Vette's steering wheel a direct swap? Same controls working, etc? Never considered swapping out the steering wheel… till now.
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As TomatoSoup said above, it's nearly direct. I don't have that wheel pictured, I have the one from the earlier Grand Sport. It's a nice wheel, and it has the attractive chrome trim. It definitely looks and feels better than the stock wheel, and the alcantara is great, when new. It's also available in leather, and if I were doing it again, I'd just get that.Is the Vette's steering wheel a direct swap? Same controls working, etc? Never considered swapping out the steering wheel… till now.
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Resurrecting from the dead. Can you please post the part number for the all-leather wheel? Many thanksAs TomatoSoup said above, it's nearly direct. I don't have that wheel pictured, I have the one from the earlier Grand Sport. It's a nice wheel, and it has the attractive chrome trim. It definitely looks and feels better than the stock wheel, and the alcantara is great, when new. It's also available in leather, and if I were doing it again, I'd just get that.
You do need to cut a hole for the cruise control button (or just set it to "on" permanently and cover the button up.) I drilled out a hole and then used some small files to widen it up to size. Slow work, as if you go too far you can't fix it, but probably took an hour in total. You'll need to move over the switch electronics from the old wheel, and of course, the airbag. Overall job is a 1/10 difficulty without making that hole, that might move it up to a 2/10.
If you want to get one of these, then let me know and I can dig up the part numbers, they're saved somewhere. If you want one that has all kinds of crazy non-circular geometric shapes, then you're on your own. 😁
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Thanks for the picture, looks good actually. I hooked up with greg at scgw and im gonna ship him a brand new c6 wheel (like the one @mstrjon32 posted above) and he'll rework it to add perforated leather, d bottom and cf top and bottom. He sent a picture that he did for someone else and I was impressed with how well it looked.There are also businesses that will rework your stock wheel. This is a GXP wheel that has been converted to woodgrain inserts.
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I had a look--but for some reason the .txt file with this information is eluding me. I will do some more digging. When I forget about it in a three days, send me a PM and then I'll start looking again. 😉Resurrecting from the dead. Can you please post the part number for the all-leather wheel? Many thanks