If I ever pay 1600 bucks to get a steering wheel, someone please whack me in the head with a shovel before my wife finds out, 'cause what she'd do would be far more drawn out and painful... It is pretty tho...
Fairness, I thought we kinda was a Brother Hood here? I said my Crestline wheel - his horn ring which is $730.00 of that, $1665.00. His web site does not give prices, thought I did a good thing here? If not, I will know next time go to a web site and fin for myself. L I DON"T KNOW
It's the cure time... Thats funny. If I ever pay 1600 bucks to get a steering wheel, someone please whack me in the head with a shovel before my wife finds out, 'cause what she'd do would be far more drawn out and painful... The advantages of being single.
I thought it must be something like that , Thanks . I'll post before and after pic's when mines done. I had the ring chromed at a local shop . I told them no hurry , it took a week. My bumpers took 10 days because they required some small repairs. I think posting recast prices of $1700 might scare a few people . To find correct pricing , call them.Their number is on their website . My wheel was less then 1/3 that price.
I hate posting what I paid, but the recasting of the wheel was $750. All I can say is the end result speak for themselves.
Great looking wheel! As long as we're on the subject of restored steering wheels, I'd like to ask if anybody has had any durability problems with their "restored" wheel? What I'm talking about is a recurrence of cracking where repairs had been made, etc. How do they hold up to changes in temperature and? Here in Indiana I'm wondering what that thing will do once it spends its first night in the garage and it dips down in the 20's or so. Course....the other side of that is in the summer it can easily get close to a hundred. Anybody have any comments?
"I'd like to ask if anybody has had any durability problems with their "restored" wheel? What I'm talking about is a recurrence of cracking where repairs had been made, etc. How do they hold up to changes in temperature and?" It depends on if it was done right. I bought a "restored" wheel a couple of years ago and it's cracked again because the idiot used body filler and repainted it. The 16 cracks were relieved and filled with FastWeld 10 and the wheels was repainted. No problems since and I'm in Ontario and my car is in an unheated garage. So, from my experience if it's fixed right, it will last a long time again. Recasting is better, but as we've established, pricy. It really depends on the condition of the wheel. Cracks in the hub are the worst kind to repair successfully.
Thanx, that's good to know. Never heard of Fastweld 10. Where do you get that? I ***ume it's 2part epoxy? I found it. Thanx
Just recieved my wheel from http://www.qualityrestorations.com/ I have restored a few wheels myself with very good results . I was expecting this wheel to turn out great . I am blown away . It is perfect down to the restoration of the exposed metal in the hub ,,, refinished hardware ,,, it is the best . Not many people go the extra step to pull off work like this .
I saw this company only a few days ago and thought they looked interesting. I terms of longevity recasting is the way to go and it's reletively simple. I work for a design company with inhouse prototyping and we could do this operation. For starters we would need a good wheel or fill and paint the original to make silican rubber moulds, if you have to work the original wheel this could take time if it's bad and may be inaccurate in shape. Making the actual mould would take a day and needs to be oven cured. The stripped wheel would then be hung back in the mould and liquid resin poured in under vacuum to fill the void left by the removed plastic off the wheel. This process wouldn't take long, just a couple of hours for mixing pouring and setting. finally the wheel has to have any split lines from the mould sanded off and then needs polishing. If your wheel is in reasonably good shape to begin with then I reckon a job like this could be turned around in 3 days or so. The cost of materials would be aprox. a couple of hundred dollars (the mould would be quite a big lump of resin) and somebody set up for it should need to charge too much, most of the time taken is spent waiting for curing and you could be doing other things then! I'm not looking for any business, our rates are acceptable to big international companies not hot rodders. But who knows one day I might set myself up making all kinds of stuff! If any one wants to know anything specific then please ask away.
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