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Old 03-30-2015, 10:17 AM   #6
jeffahart
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Re: help with cleaning and restoring a steering wheel

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Originally Posted by special-K View Post
I don't think you can hurt those wheels. It seems to me I used Lestoil or Pine Sol to clean and kill the funk. Follow that with an interior cleaner to get the solvent res out, then use something like Armorall, Lexan, whatever. Whatever is the best thing out there
It's not a matter of hurting the wheel. It's the rubber on the center portion. It gets really sticky and they cannot stopped from oozing oil. Some get so bad they actually drip. GM had some bad plastic mixes for their wheels. Starting with my 70. That year wheel composition was completely crumbling apart way back in the early 80s. I was kinda happy to see the later model wheel on the truck. Till we tried to clean the sticky. You can make it OK for a few days but the sticky come back, it just keeps oozing oil. I kept that wheel pictured for about three years. Just got sick of it. I was gross!

I don't know of anyone who has successfully stopped the sticky once it breaks down to that point.
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