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G35 stitch Steering Wheel cover option

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Old Oct 13, 2020 | 10:56 PM
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G35 stitch Steering Wheel cover option

Thought I’d post this after not seeing ANY posts about steering wheel restoration for the G35. If you’re like me and bought a G with some miles on it within the last few years, it’s likely your steering wheel is not in great condition. Personally, mine continuously flaked into my hand after long drives, and it couldn’t be cleaned without leather flaking into whatever I tried to clean it with. After conducting what seemed like hours of research, I seemed to find that my only options for fixing this issue would be to either take it to get rewrapped which would cost up to a few hundred bucks, try out “Wheelskins” (which will rewrap the outer portion of your wheel, but doesn’t cover the spokes and doesn’t look that great or comfortable in photos I’ve seen), or get a cheap Autozone/Walmart wheel cover and call it a day. None of these options seemed to satisfy what I was looking for, so I kept looking and found these leather stitch-up wheel covers all over ebay for the newer Infiniti wheels, 350/370 wheel, etc. but absolutely nothing for the g35. Only similar product I could find was the Redline Stitch-up cover, but that’s $130 in itself for a leather wrap that ebay wants ~$40 for other car models. So deciding that this leather wheel wrap would be the best option for covering my beat-up wheel, I looked at quite a few photos of the 350z ebay/amazon steering wheel cover and compared it to my own G wheel, and (after some debate) deciding that the similarities were close enough for me, I bought a 350z cover off amazon prime so i wouldn’t have to wait for ebay speedpak bullshit. It came in 2 days and I got it fitted over the wheel immediately, and after some learning experience, I got it stitched up in a couple hours. It needed some tying off in the inner spokes to look right, but the leather cuts from the 350z will stretch just long enough to tuck under the buttons and look clean on a G wheel, as if it was professionally rewrapped. It slightly reshapes the spokes since it is technically for another wheel, but it fits very well for the most part and I am very pleased with how it came out on my wheel. For $35 and some patience, this is a much better option than a rewrap or a Walmart cover that will slide every time you cut your wheel hard enough. Here’s a few pics, let me know what you think.




 

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