Corrado steering wheel won't fit?!

[soltwede@privateI.com (Night Shadow)]

Thanks for the info John!  I needed it too!

Eric


On Thu, 23 May 2002, John Erickson wrote:

> I just got mine from Potterman.  I think it was about $11 for both the 
> adapter sleeve (191 419 514 A) and the shouldered nut (N 905 500 01) to 
> hold it all on.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> At 09:04 PM 5/22/2002 -0700, Robbie Cotner wrote:
> 
> >  I've often seen pics of Scirocco's with Corrado steering wheels, from 
> > pics I've seen it also appears that those wheels came stock on the last 
> > rocco's (around '92).  I ran across what I'm pretty sure was a mid-90's 
> > Passat in the boneyard yesterday, and it's steering wheel appeared to be 
> > exactly the same as the corrado wheel.  I bought it, and found that the 
> > hole for the splines to set into is too big for the Scirocco.  Here are 
> > my q's, as I got a good deal on this wheel and probly won't spend $$ on 
> > the actual Corrado one, if that one really does pop on:  How hard would 
> > it be to go back to the Passat and get the male spline end, the one on 
> > the steering column, and put it on my '83 Rocco?  Would I need 
> > practically the entire column? Secondly, the splines in both my stock 
> > Scirocco wheel and the Passat wheel are set in a rounded-triangular piece 
> > of metal that looks to be the same size on both wheels, other than the 
> > spline holes are different diameters.  I know that the turn signal 
> > switcher on the Passat wheel will work (same part# as my Rocco one!), so 
> > I was wondering if there is a way to press out the metal chunk that is in 
> > the middle of all that plasticy stuff(the wheel).  It appears possible, 
> > anyone done it?  -Thanks in advance for any help-
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >
> >
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Eric
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