steering wheel play

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

Hmm.  I removed my Scirocco steering wheel for the first 
time in its life and never removed any sort of a plastic 
spacer.  I didn't notice one or have reason to remove any 
additional parts when I removed the wheel.  I'm assuming 
mine is still there.  I've had my steering wheel off 
several times (instrument clusters, dash replacement and 
finally steering wheel replacement).  I do not have any 
additional play as the result of switching to a Corrado 
steering wheel and OEM spacer.  I've had two different 
Corrado steering wheels on the car as well.  I originally 
put on a NA wheel and now have a Euro wheel.  I will check 
ETKA when I get home to see if Corrados use a spring or a 
spacer on the steering column.

John
Long Beach

On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 13:01:54 -0700
  Euroroc II <flaatr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Not exactly true... The original steering column has a 
>plastic spacer sleeve that slips on and is sandwiched 
>between the wheel and the bearing in the steering column. 
>If you install the get the adapter to install the Corrado 
>wheel you also should get, or have, a spring... That is, 
>the plastic sleeve goes away and you put, in it's place, 
>a spring between the steering column bearing and the 
>adapter.
>
>I did not originally install the spring myself because I 
>did not know about it and I too noticed a bit of play in 
>the wheel. After a few visit to the local junk yards I 
>noticed that many Jetta's and Golf's that had this 
>adapter had a spring under them... I bought one and 
>installed it, problem solved.
>
>-Raffi