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I started a thread looking for help in switching the Steering Wheel on my 09 to a newer style 2012 suede one with red stitching. Well I texted my buddy Dave Casole and he was at my shop in 15 minutes to lend a hand! Since he had added bluetooth controls to his a while back he had removed his wheel before and is a wiz at wiring, etc., it was good thing because for some reason GM decided to change the radio control connections, so we had to remove the wiring harness and radio control module and swap those as well. Overall not to terribly hard, and i really like the end result!. So Thank You Dave!
Last edited by Fastone27; Feb 1, 2016 at 05:22 AM.
Is the 2012 steering wheel any thicker than the stock wheel? I would like to have a little "beefier" looking and feeling steering wheel. The suede one looks a little bigger in the photos but it may just be due to the thumb rests and the way the suede photographs.
Is the 2012 steering wheel any thicker than the stock wheel? I would like to have a little "beefier" looking and feeling steering wheel. The suede one looks a little bigger in the photos but it may just be due to the thumb rests and the way the suede photographs.
I don't think it is but email or pm Fastone as he has had two of them ....
I upgraded my 09 wheel to a 12. Not suede though which, by the pic, looks like it adds some bulk. Leather to leather, the overall diameters of both wheels are the same and the rim diameters are the same. The 12 has the thumb grips and the black facias.
Last edited by BlindSpot; Oct 11, 2017 at 07:15 AM.
Just switched my 07 Z06 steering wheel to a 2012 w/red stitching. The hardest part was pulling the old wheel. Some on the forun say it just pulls off, not in my case. Didn't have the proper legs for the wheel puller, so I had to make them, took a lot of force to pop the old wheel off.
Just switched my 07 Z06 steering wheel to a 2012 w/red stitching. The hardest part was pulling the old wheel. Some on the forun say it just pulls off, not in my case. Didn't have the proper legs for the wheel puller, so I had to make them, took a lot of force to pop
Really .... every time I removed a wheel we just gave it a quick jerk to the right or left and the wheel popped off
I wonder if someone had your wheel off and somehow crossed the splines ....
Really .... every time I removed a wheel we just gave it a quick jerk to the right or left and the wheel popped off
I wonder if someone had your wheel off and somehow crossed the splines ....
Dave
I've not had one stick, but don't doubt that it happened.
The splines are a machined close fit, but not an interference fit. Must have been some corrosive activity that occurred over the years. There is a timing tooth in the spline. It's not dissimilar metals. I just looked at a steering wheel I have and there is a pressed fit steel spline in an aluminum chassis, and the steering shaft is steel.
I think that getting the steering wheel off easily is just a matter of getting it in just the right amount of equal tension around the rim (or just plain luck).
When I was changing mine (and I bought the car new) I couldn't get it to just pull off. I finally got a steering wheel puller and I still couldn't get it off. It seemed stuck.
Then as i was jerking on it in frustration, it just fell off into my lap. It's like it had frustrated me enough and finally just slid off with a simple pull.
OP, your new steering wheel looks good.
Last edited by ncvette_1FUNRIDE; Aug 28, 2016 at 12:33 PM.
Well the car is 10 years old. No indication that it had ever been apart.
Two of the guys that said it just pulled off were on a 1012 thread, replacing wheels on 2010 cars. In any case, it's done and hopefully will never need to come apart.
The GM parts place didn't want to sell it to me because their book said it was wrong for my VIN.
I started a thread looking for help in switching the Steering Wheel on my 09 to a newer style 2012 suede one with red stitching. Well I texted my buddy Dave Casole and he was at my shop in 15 minutes to lend a hand! Since he had added bluetooth controls to his a while back he had removed his wheel before and is a wiz at wiring, etc., it was good thing because for some reason GM decided to change the radio control connections, so we had to remove the wiring harness and radio control module and swap those as well. Overall not to terribly hard, and i really like the end result!. So Thank You Dave!
Changed my Steering Wheel
I've not had one stick, but don't doubt that it happened. 
