viper steering wheel molting

[Warfang]

My 97 gts is showing some wear and tear on it's steering wheel. Some parts of the leather is starting to get scaley and peeling off. I thought only real snakes shed their skin!

Do I need a new steering wheel/airbag, or does anyone refinish them?

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

I'd like to know the answer to this as well.

 

[AG98RT10]

Been wondering when I'd hear about this... My 95 Ram has a very similar type of leather on the steering wheel and it went all scaly where I grip it at around 35K/3 years... I think the salt in sweat is doing it.

 

[Jay Herbert]

I've been wondering about this too as my '95's wheel is pretty shot... over the years I've done ton's of Yahoo searches, and found nothing.... but curious, today I seached again today and I actually found two:

http://www.american-stitches.com/amstitches/Pages/index2.html


http://www.american-stitches.com/amstitches/Pages/custom.html

and

http://www.stuttswap.com/stuttswap/recover.html

I'm pretty sure the steering wheels on Gen I Viper's are Momo, It might be worth seeing if they have a factory recovering service.

http://www.momo.it/momoeng/set1.html

 

[Warfang]

I've been wondering about this too as my '95's wheel is pretty shot... over the years I've done ton's of Yahoo searches, and found nothing.... but curious, today I seached again today and I actually found two:

http://www.american-stitches.com/amstitches/Pages/index2.html


http://www.american-stitches.com/amstitches/Pages/custom.html

and

http://www.stuttswap.com/stuttswap/recover.html

I'm pretty sure the steering wheels on Gen I Viper's are Momo, It might be worth seeing if they have a factory recovering service.

http://www.momo.it/momoeng/set1.html

Thanks! Great... now I want more than just my steering wheel redone.... carbon fiber wheel, dash, door panels, etc etc etc!

 

[steve911]

I had the leather wheel on my shelby CSX done about a year ago by American Stitches. The Shelby wheel is actually a Momo wheel With Shelby's name engraved on a spoke. They did a great job, there was great communication with me after they received the wheel to discuss what should actually be done with it, e.g. just the leather redone, underpadding replacement, stitching etc.

Took about three weeks was well packaged when they shipped it back tome and looks super. Price as I recall was in the 200.00, but don't quote me on that.

 

[scottgf]

For a quick and pretty easy fix, i have used "wheelskins" on a few of my cars. They are a thin leather cover that you stitch on...Takes about 1 hour to stitch it on and they look very good, can hardly.tell its not factory.
Cheers,