Re: steering wheel interchangeability ?

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

This sleeve can be removed from the column and installed on earlier cars. 
You must cut the lower section from the od splines. Then you can bolt your 
late model steering wheel on your older car.

Chris DeLong
ICQ#45030867
Seattle, WA USA
'80 16V 'Rocco ragtop
'91 GLi 2.0 16V
'77 Rabbit 16V
'80 'Vert (parting out!)
'61 17 Window type II
'91 Vanagon
'78 Rabbit
'78 Rabbit (for sale)
'87 GTi 16V



>From: "Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>
>To: scalainj@hotmail.com, fantasybkb@hotmail.com
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: steering wheel interchangeability ?
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:02:28 +0000
>
>53-K-002-790 and onwards had the bigger spline. I think it's just a push on
>sleeve though so it should be possible to swap the bigger one for a smaller
>one - they should be < 20 buck fronm the dealer.  Might be worth trying to
>remove the bigger one first to test this theory!
>
>HTH,
>
>Ewan Hopkins...
>
>'85 Storm 2.0
>'86 GT 1.8
>'87 GT 1.6
>
>
>
>>From: "Andy Holmes" <scalainj@hotmail.com>
>>To: fantasybkb@hotmail.com
>>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>Subject: Re: steering wheel interchangeability ?
>>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:34:59 +0100
>>
>>Yes they did i think around 88/89. My 91 has the fatter column and the
>>Jetta
>>(Mk1) has the thinner.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>Andy Holmes
>>91 Scirocco Scala
>>83 Jetta Surprise
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: "Baden LP" <fantasybkb@hotmail.com>
>>>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>>Subject: steering wheel interchangeability ?
>>>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:24:02 +0000
>>>
>>>HI All,
>>>
>>>A friend of mine recently picked up the four button steering wheel to
>>>replace his later squareish centred one, on a 1989 GT (1.8 carb UK 
>>>model).
>>>The four button wheel came from the earlier sciroccos (I think a 1985
>>>GTL).
>>>
>>>He finds though that its doesn;t fit. The splined steering column is the
>>>wrong diameter. I thought that for the Sciroccos in particular and A1 
>>>cars
>>>in general, the steering column equipment remanied unchanged ?
>>>
>>>I have had the four button and now the MKI three spoke on my 1987 Scala
>>>without a problem. Can anyone please correct me if they know the steering
>>>column equipment changed during the Sciroccos production (especially in
>>>the
>>>UK)?
>>>
>>>Many thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Ian
>>>
>>>
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