Hy guys just wondering anyone knows a place to send my leather tsport steering wheel for some restoration the leather peeled all off and looks horrible. Any ideas?

Yes, you can do a restoration, but the end result is nothing near than if you get your wheel refurb. Problem is that some leathers are difficult to restore, you have to have a lot of patience and knowledge how to restore it properly and again the end result might be good, but not as a refurb. Also you have to fade out the peeling part by using a sandpaper correctly and possibly using a filler after that. You can check out internet for restoration tips and tricks and see sample images of restored steering wheels, they tend look a bit shiny, because of the colorant and really doesn't fit to the interior that well, at least that's my opinion.

Honestly im happy to pay some for a proper refurb but where is a good place to look?

Any shop that specialise in vehicle interior trimming should do the job for you, they’ll be able to remove the stitching and make templates of the leather and make up new pieces etc and it’ll be a much better job. I had the leather peel off mine, the side that the right hand sits on seems to wear the most as it’s almost always in contact compare to you left hand for gear changes and radio. I replaced my why altogether with one of and Abarth 500

Malarky191 said:

Any shop that specialise in vehicle interior trimming should do the job for you, they’ll be able to remove the stitching and make templates of the leather and make up new pieces etc and it’ll be a much better job. I had the leather peel off mine, the side that the right hand sits on seems to wear the most as it’s almost always in contact compare to you left hand for gear changes and radio. I replaced my why altogether with one of and Abarth 500

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Is the abarth 500 a straight fit or need to replace the boss too?

Murkovics said:

Is the abarth 500 a straight fit or need to replace the boss too?

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Straight fit, all you need to do is swap out the circuit boards for the steering wheel controls from your Bravo’s wheel into the Abarth one. The steering wheel buttons pop off the wheel then you can pop the clips to seperate the holder and the rubber button pieces, do the same on the Bravo wheel then stick the Abarths button pieces onto the Bravos little circuit board pieces. Not sure if that makes sense but I’ll post pictures later.

If you’re thinking of doing it you’re best checking what connection your Bravo steering wheel airbag has on the back; either one connector or two, mine had two so I had to find an Abarth wheel and airbag that had two connections also, mine is from a 2012 500.

Hade a look at a local car interior refurbisher and oh dear its expencive to refurb a steering wheel... I had a quote of 200 if its fiddley... I buy a brand bew one from germany for 260..

royalsteeringwheels do a decent job

Believe a few others on here have used him, it took around a week or so for mine and you can do an exchange