Reply To: Steering wheel recovering

My car (1955) was purchased with a 3 spoke steering wheel and a perfo engine, the 11D engine and the 2 spoke Slough steering wheel having been removed by the previous owner for his older model and his old parts fitted to mine. At the time I was ignorant of these things so was quite happy. I still am actually although the 11D would have been nice.

When I realised that I did not have the correct Slough wheel, I looked for a second hand one but they all had cracks and heavy price tags. Mine was suffering from the plastic fatigue under its “leather” cover. All the places I looked at for re-coating were expensive. It was clearly not possible to patch it so I decided to take off all the old coating and see what I could do.

When I stripped it I discovered that the central spider was Aluminium and the rim, steel.

I thought that it looked pretty good so I cleaned it up, polished the Aluminium and sprayed the rim with a near match to the brown of the central boss.

If a Slough wheel in good condition for a sensible price turns up I might swap it but otherwise I am quite happy with my non-standard wheel.

That was quite a cheap solution.