17 replies to this topic

[racingbob]

I drove a mini recently with a 12" steering wheel

 

cant believe how awful it was, I have personally always used a 340 -350mm

 

momo or similar wheel even on my race minis

 

obviously some people like them

 

get a lot more control over your car with larger wheel

 

13" would be the smallest I would use

 

but even then when I tried one on my car

 

the 14" was better

 

whats your opinion

[cal844]

14 or 15 inch steering wheel on 10 or 12 inch road wheel

[cooperdan]

When i picked up my second mini it had a 10" with 13x7s

Ohhh my... i soon ordered a new steering wheel

[Fast Ivan]

used a moto lita 13" on my 40le with 10" wheels, found it much better than the standard steering wheel with the 13" wheels

[Cooperman]

14" is about as small as I would want to go.

[666junky]

Ive got the big clubman style one, really thin with two spokes in a triangle shape.. No badge on it. how big are them ones?

[surfblue]

Used to have small steering wheels on my minis and the steering was a bit, but not unpleasantly heavier.

Worst I drove was a Sportspack Cooper with 175 section tyres and standard airbag wheel - horrible at parking speeds!

Current Mk1 has the standard "bus" steering wheel, combined with skinny 520 crossply tyres its so light its like having power steering 

Edited by surfblue, 25 November 2014 - 08:22 PM.

[megamini_jb]

I love my little 10" steering wheel with 10x 4.5 wheels

[Ben_O]

Had a 10" Mountney on my 25 when it was on the road. 

 

Always found it a pain to keep in a straight line when driving on motorways with a cross wind.

 

I prefer a larger wheel personally although a tiny chunky wheel is a laugh driving on town roads.

[Alex_B]

I use a Astrali Successor 2 steering wheel which I believe is 12". When I first fitted it I felt the mini really came alive compared to the standard 25 wheel. I like the slightly livelier steering feel you get from the slightly smaller wheel. However since changing my tracking I have found it to be a tad twitchy at motorway speeds.

[megamini_jb]

Plus 10" ones look awesome too

[jccc78]

there going to be somebody driving out there using thimble lol

 

or like this

http://www.google.co...start=0&ndsp=17

 

lol

[MiniCarJack]

I currently enjoy driving around with my nautical sized standard Mk1 steering wheel and very skinny tyres on 10" wheels, it's very light and easy to steer. I would love to one day try putting my dad's old MGB GT steering wheel in a Mini, that thing looks awesome and is even bigger - 16.5 inches if I remember correctly!

 

Here's a picture of one (not the exact car, ours is a RHD):

 

There's something about big steering wheels in little cars that makes me laugh Although I have a feeling that might be a little *too* big for a Mini, as I doubt the huge wheel would allow ample room for my legs, being 6ft tall!

[jt19]

I have a 10 or 11 inch for sale if anyone wants one?
I used it in my stage 2 998. Then fitted a 1380 and decided to fit a bigger wheel as it torqued steered a bit lol.
That was on 10x6 wheels.

[brownspeed]

My original cooper had a 10" mountney leather rim steering 10" x 6J wheels & 165/70 tyres, it was fine most of the time, though a tad heavy when parking. Was like driving with a ring doughnut (without the sugar obviously)

Edited by brownspeed, 26 November 2014 - 10:55 AM.