Just curious on which ones came with wood steering wheels. Thinking about trying to find one and swapping our plain black one for the one that has wood on the top and bottom.
Any issues with doing so? I found a youtube video and it seems like a 8 minute job. I've taken steering wheels off many cars so shouldn't be too bad.
Any issues with the wood delaminating or wear causing it to look like ass after a while? I'm only entertaining this if I can find one cheap, no way in spending a couple hundred on a 10 year old car..lol
My CLK320 Elegance has a wood/leather steering wheel. I think they were an option.
Mine has a hairline crack in the lacquer of the top section,barely noticeable,probably due to sun exposure.
I like the look and feel of the wood,which matches the other wood in the doors and console etc.
Best chance to get one would be from a wreck I think.
Yep, the wood steering wheel was just a line-item option available on any CLK excep the AMG models (because they have paddle shifters which were not available with the wood wheel). Also, it was standard on non-AMG Designo models. My wood also has a hairline crack. The leather below the wood has worn much worse than the wood itself.
Good luck finding one in good shape for that. As an option, it was $550 at the time. To buy a new one is well over $1,000. Any decent used one will be $200 or more. My wood is still prefect.
As for fixing cracks, not really, for two reasons. Its' not really lacquer, it's a pretty thick layer of plastic, thick as compared to a normal wood finish. So it has depth. So even if you get something to wick into the crack to fill it, it will refract light differently and always be visible. It's too thick to sand down to the wood. Second, it cracked because heating/cooling cycles flex the surface, and the flexing ultimately cracked it in one spot. Once cracked, all the flexing gets concentrated at the crack because it's now the weak link in the surface and moves easily. So it will just move and crack anything you try after a short while.
As for wood color, burlwood is not a color. Burl is the name of that swirly grain pattern that comes from basically a tumor on many kinds of trees. The wood on most CLKs is walnut, so that's walnut burl, and is in its natural color. Some CLKs came with a darker wood I think they called "black ash." That is also a burl. The wood is not really dark like that - ash is the color of a baseball bat - so they dye it dark. I'm not sure I've seen wheels that color, but I assume they exist.
Welp picked up a wood steering wheel for a steal on Ebay. Awesome condition and I just polished the plastic on it so it's super shiny.
So much nicer than the plain black steering wheel we had. Got this for $80!..lol
Appreciate all the help, looks really good with the rest of the wood in the car, even though I'm not a huge wood person, this does look nice. Picture before cleaning and treating the leather.
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