Leather steering wheel

[Drake Nakaishi]

I have a light sand leather steering wheel that needs replacement. The upholstery places that I talked to do not want to take on the job. They said the steering wheel might need to be replaced because they are worried that they might effect the airbag.

I can go on line and find leather replacement but they are all black or other colors but not light sand.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[jcoul1939]

My tan steering wheel was getting in bad shape and my son painted it with leather paint and it helped it tremendously.

 

[3RD BRD]

I have the same issue with my steering wheel and shifter. Have not tried it yet but did pick up some leather paint that was a close match and will try to find the specs on it to share. Since I prefer the wheel with the painted wood I've been debating getting one of those instead and painting the black painted wood in the light sand color.

 

[tbird]

I'd be curious if anyone would have luck with this.

 

[Adam Ginsberg]

For what it's worth, I've found several NOS 2002-2005 Thunderbird parts on ebay. I recently inherited my father's 2002 Neiman Marcus car, and I wanted to clean up a few items - the steering wheel being one. An ebay seller had the correct NM steering wheel, NIB, for $250, shipped to my CA door. From my own personal experience, leather paint, particularly on a steering wheel, won't last very long,

The key to finding the right part is to figure out what the original Ford part number is - once you have that, you can quickly find various places that carry it.