Steering Wheel for 1980 Aircooled

Post by **creamcracker** » 01 Dec 2007, 12:55

Hi Everbody,
Looking at fitting a smaller steering wheel to a 1980 Aircooled van. Any one know which types are a straight fit/swap. Thanks in advance.

Post by **gypowagen** » 01 Dec 2007, 17:02

most early vw steering wheels can be made to fit easily i.e. mk1 golf gti steering wheels go straight on,all you have to do is bend up the horn contact to touch the back of the wheel, then extend the part that cancels the indicators, the best way to do this is to drill a small hole in it then tap a steel roll pin in, failing that if you want a wheel to go straight on with no modification then go for a porsche 944 steering wheel, i have one in mine and looks great, but if you dont have power steering you might need to do some working out 1st, i picked mine up off ebay for £26 hope this helps.

Post by **guz** » 01 Dec 2007, 21:58

afraid its over on another forum but spotted
a lad with 3 of these for sale at £9 each, i have
same design in my '83 bus but mine's brown.

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link to ad... http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.p ... opic=89244
you'll have to join to PM or reply on the thread.

Post by **dink** » 02 Dec 2007, 12:22

gypowagen wrote:most early vw steering wheels can be made to fit easily i.e. mk1 golf gti steering wheels go straight on,all you have to do is bend up the horn contact to touch the back of the wheel, then extend the part that cancels the indicators, the best way to do this is to drill a small hole in it then tap a steel roll pin in, failing that if you want a wheel to go straight on with no modification then go for a porsche 944 steering wheel, i have one in mine and looks great, but if you dont have power steering you might need to do some working out 1st, i picked mine up off ebay for £26 hope this helps.

if you pull the colum appart and fit a spacer under the colum bush, 4mm should do it, it'll bring the golf wheel back down to where it should be, no need for bending the terminals
took me about an hour all up, now it looks almost like it left the factory that way, instead of there being a gap between wheel and colum

i think that some early 944 steering wheels wil fit also, not 100% sure

Post by **richnewton** » 02 Dec 2007, 15:54

I'll have a brown caravelle one up for sale in a few weeks. Pm if your interested.

Post by **creamcracker** » 02 Dec 2007, 18:00

tThanks for all replies folks, sorry couldn't reply individually as you posted, had trouble with log in. All sorted now thanks to the wonderful admin guys. Thanks again, shall keep all your ideas in mind.