Recent content by shuntridge

This is the steering wheel with black plasti-kote paint on. They are a satin finish so not perfect yet. Should be a great deal better when rubberised!! I am sure these defo look better than blue!! I would be interested if any other people had a goo to see the results.

Yep defo with you on that one. Quite a bit of work but now I have done one pair the next ones will be easy and fairly quick to do and once I get the correct paint I think indeed they should look good enough to be happy with them. At least people can see how to make them now and it does not...

The pair of black ones drying. Certainly look better than the blue ones.

Just went to the local car paint shop and they said they can put it in an aerosol. We shall see what it turns out like. He said it is the same stuff that VW / Seat use on their interior parts to give the "soft" touch.

It is satin finish, again all i have in the shed ha ha!! It is still wet in the picture but should matt off when dry. The rubberised paint i have ordered is a matt finish as in the door handles in VW's that should look awesome.

Just waiting for them to dry and then give them a light flat down with some 1000 grit wet n dry. Should be on in an hour or so and will pop a picture on here of them on. Certainly do think they will look better in black. Did drive 60 miles last night and the blue was getting on my nerves quite...

Back to Black... erm sure there is something there.... Anyways starting to look better, this is just satin plasikote stuff and not the VW rubberised stuff but does look better and not the "Max Power" look of the blue ones.

Painted them back now so should look better than the foul blue. Idea is that they are CHEAP and not £100's as a new wheel is. Certainly looks / feels better than my steering wheel hanging to bits.

I would get at least 500g of it then you can do a good mould. It is easy stuff to work with and at that price aint to bad.

Yep the colour sucks!!! Only an experiment though / first prototype. And yes the car is on fleebay..

HA HA exactly what i thought when i put them on the car!!! I just wanted to see what they looked like / what finish i could get with paint and MG Trophy Blue was the only colour i had at hand. I have ordered some of the black VW rubberised paint and will let you know what the outcome is.

Cheers it just needs a little development and a few more people to experiment with it, looks like Renault forgot to do the testing on the wheel also though when they designed it ha ha. :o Not the perfect solution i know but better than £380 +vat or whatever a new one is now.

Hope so. It would be a nice idea if it could help a few people as it was a pain with a crap steering wheel. I was beginning to fall out with the car!!

I did not have one on the right hand side so cut the rest that was left off and worked from that, easy enough though.

Melting (workable state) point is 60oC so if it gets that hot they could go soft, or you will die of heat exposure ha ha!! It does not have a plastic memory so stays in shape, would just go squigdgy if it did get that hot.