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Old Mar 31, 2010 | 07:06 PM
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Talking Dont' throw away crusty steering wheels.....

Have them recovered

It's been a while since I've contributed anything... Mostly because nothing on my car has changed.

Cabaynes has had a Prodrive steering wheel laying in the garage with some crusty *** suede on it for a few years now. Since he has no intention of using it anytime soon I decided to have it recovered in leather. My fugly Greddy shift **** had to go too, luckily goodfellafd3s was sweet enough to send me an stock shift ****.

Not many upholstery shops will recover steering wheels or shift *****. After a bit of searching I came across Joe at JPMcoachworks . Joe was SUPER nice and very informative. His turn around time was really quick and pricing was reasonable. I think from the time I shipped the wheel and **** until I got it back was a total of about two weeks. I may have him re-cover my shift **** and ebrake boots soon.

Hopefully Charlie doesn't want this wheel back any time soon, or I can pay him to forget I took it.

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-Dan

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Old Mar 31, 2010 | 10:03 PM
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wow that really was crusty ahhaha
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Old Mar 31, 2010 | 10:03 PM
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Those guys do a lot of nice work on Miatas as well.
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Old Mar 31, 2010 | 10:56 PM
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how much was it
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 01:12 AM
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nice!

Looks brand new
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 02:19 AM
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Looks awesome...May do this to my old Personal Grinta
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 08:25 AM
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I don't think the pricing will be the same depending on what type of wheel it is. But the shift **** was only like $50 or $60.
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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 08:30 AM
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WOW... sick.... my 2002 steering wheel might turn into a spirit-R wheel sooner than I thought....
Great Info
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Old Apr 2, 2010 | 08:43 PM
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ok just wondering roughly what we are looking for a wheel recovery like that lol
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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 02:54 AM
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do they do suede??
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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 11:40 AM
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Yup they do suede also. Why not just give Joe a call and tell him what you're looking to have done. He'll be able to answer any questions you have.
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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 03:15 PM
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^ word, ima have to.. i want to get my nardi re wrapped..
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Old Apr 3, 2010 | 03:19 PM
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Steering wheel refinishing was something I would have never thought of.

Thanks for a great find.
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