Steering wheel stitch.


muiris

muiris

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Hey,
I want to re-stitch my steering wheel as it's quite worn now and the red stitch has lost its colour.
I'm going to do it myself and will hopefully practice on another wheel first.
I will also refurbish it using a kit I have found online.

Q: How is the leather held on? On examination it looks like the stitch is just for aesthetics and serves no other purpose..

Is the leather glued onto the wheel?
Any other information would be a help.

Thanks
 
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by looking at an EK4 wheel, the stitching seems to play a big role in holding the leather on tight, I'd imagine there would have been some form of glue under the leather too. but dont quote me, just what I see from looking at the wheel in my room lol.

out of curiousity, where are you getting the red stitching from?
 
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Anyone know where I could purchase oem red thread?
Lings honda don't have it.
 
I found that just now on Honda parts usa @$5.59
Just ordered.
Thanks.

I'ave never stitched before so it's going to be fun
 
that's a good price!

do a write up if you don't manage to mess it up :p

think you need a U-shaped needle too according to that DIY guide! I wouldn't have the patience to stitch lol, I'd just give it to my mum haha!

good luck though!
 
The stitching is purely asthetic it serves no purpose other than to look pretty, the leather is bonded on. Find a decent trimmers and get your materials from them IMHO. I retrimmed a tatty DC2 wheel and this is the different stitches I tried, tight cross stitch, a looser cross stitch and running stitch to try and approximate the original look:

differentstitchingir8.jpg


more in-progress:



By mus1wb

and


By mus1wb


I settled on trying to keep it OEM looking in the end and it came out pretty well IMHO. I'll probably re-trim my other DC2 wheel in yellow stitching for the Jordan, and probably go with the baseball style cross-stitch to keep the edges down.
 
Very nice, when I was looking at the stitching it did appear to have no actual function other than for looks.
An ek9 steering wheel has a running stitch( the same as yours in the pic) so the leather was bonded onto the wheel.

Thanks for the help guys, I look forward to attempting it.
 
I didn't bond the leather on that retrim, its all stitched, the running stitch is done double (2 needles, straight heavy blunt type) and crosses under for each stitch to hold it together. The spoke leather was shaved/skived and bonded on with Evostic contact adhesive (red tin, smells good ;)), but I'd try and get something stronger for next time, or do it all one piece.
 
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