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Fitted my chinese steering wheel cover

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Fitted my chinese steering wheel cover

Post by Coffee331 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:06 pm

Fitted mine yesterday...way easier than I had anticipated 👍
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Post by greg81 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:08 pm

Looks great. Mine is due sometime in the next couple of weeks. It's cleared customs so will hopefully come quickly!!

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Post by greg81 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:21 pm

Well it arrived yesterday and I finished it off tonight. Precious suggestion in this thread of 4 hours fitting Tim is about right.

I went wrong from the very beginning though and went all gung-ho removing the trim only to break almost all of them so there's no screw holes to put it back together. Hopefully a touch of super glue will do the trick.

Fitting it was a little tricky but once you get into the swing of the stitching it starts to come together really well. Mine turned out pretty good although it wasn't lined perfectly so the stitching isn't quite in the middle where it should be but I'm still very happy.
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Fitted my chinese steering wheel cover

Post by Magicarcher » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:55 pm

looks very good, is it leather?
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Post by greg81 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:05 pm

I didn't bother going for the leather one. This is very nice in hand though

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Fitted my chinese steering wheel cover

Post by Machine monkey » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:08 pm

So where do I order these?
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Post by greg81 » Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:36 pm

From AliExpress. Easiest to download the app. Everything is direct from China so expect up to 3-4 weeks delivery.

I think mine worked out £19 delivered but the leather one is only another tenner.

Open the app and search for "mewant Z4"

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Post by chapeau » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:42 am

I ordered the leather one during their special offer a couple of weeks ago for £27 so looking forward to having a go at fitting it once it arrives. Went for the grey stitching to match my sterling grey Z.
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Post by JINGLE » Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:23 am

Has anybody fitted a leather cover to the thick M wheel? I was tempted to get a royals retrim but I’d the leather M thick wheel cover is good then I’ll go down this route myself!

All the the thin non leather covers look really good but want to see a like for like of what my wheel would look like before buying 1

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Post by 85genius » Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:03 pm

JINGLE wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:23 am Has anybody fitted a leather cover to the thick M wheel? I was tempted to get a royals retrim but I’d the leather M thick wheel cover is good then I’ll go down this route myself!

All the the thin non leather covers look really good but want to see a like for like of what my wheel would look like before buying 1
Considered myself but no way it's gonna fit unless they do an M specific one just won't be enough leather to stretch round the wheel
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Post by greg81 » Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:38 pm

85genius wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2017 12:03 pm
JINGLE wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:23 am Has anybody fitted a leather cover to the thick M wheel? I was tempted to get a royals retrim but I’d the leather M thick wheel cover is good then I’ll go down this route myself!

All the the thin non leather covers look really good but want to see a like for like of what my wheel would look like before buying 1
Considered myself but no way it's gonna fit unless they do an M specific one just won't be enough leather to stretch round the wheel
Yeah, these are tight on a standard wheel so definitely won't fit anything thicker

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Post by JINGLE » Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:43 pm

That’s what I was thinking, looks like Royals is the only way forward :fuelfire:

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Post by chapeau » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:11 am

They do make an M trim but its red and black.
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Post by Machine monkey » Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:19 am

I wanted alacantra and they say they cant/wont do it so i guess i am out and wont be getting them.
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Post by Paulr » Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:38 pm

Be interesting to see what the leather one is like, can't see it being that much better than the very convincing non-leather ones. My 'fake' cover looks great & feels really nice to use.
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