Sticky steering wheel
- Thread starter JD1964
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Perhaps look into a nice leather sew on steering wheel cover. Although your wheel appears to be in pretty nice shape despite the gooey slime that these wheels emit.
99% Alcohol will dissolve/remove the sticky substance. I use it on mine and it works. Try it on a small part to see if it will work for you.
During the Covid madness, excessive use of the high test version of Purell was a fact of work life. found that the 70%+ alcohol variant made a great steering wheel cleaner. Slather it on your hands and apply the excess to the wheel and then wipe it off with a paper towel. In the fuglies, it often took a serious number of repetitions to get the wheels clean because most of the regular drivers had never paid attention to keeping the cabins clean, never mind giving the units a regular bath. I still get "Generous" when applying the stuff and then slathering it on the unit's steering wheel. S*** that gets moved and handled around iby us n my city is anything but clean and sterile; more like germ and virus central and the average sheeple is dumb to the point of permanent stupidity about public hygiene.
The high test alcohol can be acquired at any local drug store or pharmacy. Up here you might have to ask the pharmacist because certain elements continually try to subsitute it for the real thing with lethal consequences. It also makes great cleaner for purging brake lines.
Nick
The high test alcohol can be acquired at any local drug store or pharmacy. Up here you might have to ask the pharmacist because certain elements continually try to subsitute it for the real thing with lethal consequences. It also makes great cleaner for purging brake lines.
Nick
One of the joys of the steering wheels in our cars. Either they are goo producers or just shrink & crack.
The true car owner is my son. He’s the owner and I’m the mechanic. I had approached him on the idea of an aftermarket wheel and he said no. He likes the stock wheel.
I also had the same color interior and wheel and couldn't get the gooey stuff to stop. I still have the old wheel hanging up in my garage after replacing it.
I had the cracked, hard plastic variety. I wrapped my wheel with a cheap imported EBay 'leather' wrapper. It stretched like a goatskin glove, but didn't match the wheel color. I replaced it with a blue Wheelskin cover, same baseball stitch. MUCH better quality and the color was a reasonable match.
On another car, I was able to find a Cherokee wheel from a Forum member that really matched the (sticky) stock Malibu wheel color, but will never get sticky, not made of molded vinyl.
If you choose the first option, clean the hell out of it with 90% isopropyl, then use BOTH the EBay wrapper and a red Wheelskins cover. You'll end up with a thicker, padded wheel like what I ended up from a Cherokee. For 1/3 the cost plus your labor.
On another car, I was able to find a Cherokee wheel from a Forum member that really matched the (sticky) stock Malibu wheel color, but will never get sticky, not made of molded vinyl.
If you choose the first option, clean the hell out of it with 90% isopropyl, then use BOTH the EBay wrapper and a red Wheelskins cover. You'll end up with a thicker, padded wheel like what I ended up from a Cherokee. For 1/3 the cost plus your labor.
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