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[iDemonix]

I know there's plenty of threads about it, but most are confusing and specific to whatever wheel.

Last night some scumbags were on my drive between 2-3am and looking inside my mini, my dad woke up, headed downstairs and they scarpered. Makes my blood boil.

Anyway, I want this steering wheel:

http://www.minisport..._MON43SPLB.html

Could anyone link me the *Exact* parts I need to make that a snap off? I'm assuming I need a 'boss' connects wheel to column? and then the snap off thingy for Mountney bosses or something?

If a low profile one exists, great, because from what I've seen some of the snap off kits move the wheel about 3" closer to the driver! Mine is close enough as it is!

[pierres]

Did you not get the reg plate ??

Try this one looks good and the main makes of steering wheel

http://www.motorspee...61/product/5365

You know you will have buy two ones for me FREE !!

Edited by pierres, 19 July 2012 - 07:45 AM.

[Ryang556]

I've wanted one of these snap off kits for a while but people told me I may have problems in an MOT with one?

[pierres]

Why ??

[Ryang556]

Not sure, said it may not be classed as properly attached or something

[iDemonix]

Christ, any cheaper alternatives? If there aren't then I'll just have to bite the bullet, but £100 seems a bit steep.

[iDemonix]

Why are these so hard to find and figure out?

All I want is a key-removable steering wheel boss, for a mountney wheel. Surely someone has accomplished this?

[yeti21586]

I don't believe that steering wheel will fit that boss (I have that boss) as it's made for the sporty looking wheels with the 6 securing bolts closer together than the mountery wheels, but that doesn't mean there isn't a wheel
That looks the same and will fit the boss , so don't give up

Will try and get a pic of mine up

YetI

[yeti21586]

This a crappy pic of the wheel I've got,



You will also need a boss to bolt this onto, 

Unattached


Attached 



Does that make sense?

YetI

[iDemonix]

Thanks Yeti, that helps a lot!

IIRC then you're not driving Vini yet, but have you sat and felt the wheel to see how comfortable it'd be? I want a setup like yours but I prefer the older styled circular leather wheels to the sporty plastic-looking ones.

[iDemonix]

Oh and does it click out with a button or with a key? I'm paranoid that if it was a button press system I'd click it off whilst doing 70mph on the motorway.

[mini93]

Thats a large PCD wheel. Where i work, Lifeline, we sell one for that type but more expensive than the one listed above but its a propper bit precision kit, no play at all compaired to some shoddy ones that some places sell.

[tiger99]

It is expensive because it is safety critical, and has to function without developing significant backlash for a long time, while being easily removable when required. Not a place where crude, inexpensive engineering will work.

On the other hand, if they were mass-produced items fitted to every car, they would become cheaper.

If I wanted one, I would consider £100 cheap, if it was of good quality. But I would think about alternative solutions to the problem too. My preference would be for a Metro Turbo wheel, one of the safest in its time, surprisingly (You may be surprised to know that the steering wheel in Volvos of that era was a real face-smasher, put to shame by Rover. I occasionally worked alongside the people who were developing the test for steering wheel safety at TRRL.), and that might require something very different to attach it.

I fear that there may be one minor snag, all that mass at the top of the column may do strange things due to vibration when the car is running, and maybe make the column chatter in its bushes, so you might end up replacing the two bushes more often than usual. Cheap enough, but another maintenance thing to have to attend to.

Edited by tiger99, 19 July 2012 - 06:39 PM.

[yeti21586]

You have to press a button and then slide a collar over the button befor pulling it off, in no way can you do it accidentally, and ther is no slop nice and solid, and we're I've got the wheel is perfect for me, I've also got a job fabrication long drop bracket

YetI

[yeti21586]

This will be my driving position



YetI