Thread: steering wheel piece removal?

Originally Posted by snoopy0812

here's a link to another post, iNXXT did his in white.

Painting Center stack

Thanks, Snoopy...

Originally Posted by BamaCoupe

So that Emblem goes ON TOP OF THE "H"?! Wow, I didn't know that! I'm days away from getting my GC, and should have received the Wings (all around) by now. Sticking that one on top of the Steering Wheel H will be easy!

Sorry...off original topic.

No need to apologize Bama....I wish someone had posted this before I went to all the aggro of having to replace my "H", just to peel and place my wings....however, timing is everything....
If you are thinking about replacing the "H" inserts in the wheels, McCane posted a howto, which I modified so that it is literally less than a 2 minute job...just take a thin bladed knife with some spring to the blade, slip it between the plastic wheel insert and the wheel, gently apply outward pressure and it pops right out, no marks...winged H pops right in....guy at ImportShark told me I had to take the wheels off, punch them out from the back....catching McCane's post saved me mucho hassle, so, you lucked out on the steering wheel badge!

Originally Posted by CoupeGuy

Ya know, Snoop, I never wanted to admit this, but your advice is bullshit...
I know, because I been there....

First of all, why would anyone want to paint the "H" black?
Second of all, there are no screws or clips invovled in replacing it
unless you are replacing the airbag assembly, which is what some
scumbag parts guy tried to get me to do when I asked for a replacement
"H" after I fucked up my replacement, as described below...

Got the shiny new "G" Wing steering wheel insert from ImportShark and assumed (means makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me") that I had to remove the Hyundai drunkern "H" to install....
Wrongo!!! Bigtime!!

I took the needlenose pliers and grunted and ripped until the "H" came off
and then discovered that there were at least 8 plastic ties, maybe 10 that held that stupid "H" to the steering wheel.....

Well, I figured, just had to get that out of the way, got my "Winged G" Importshark replacement and discovered that it was convex and wold not fix on the now flat space where I had ripped of the "H", it bent and altho I straightned it out, there was a crease down the middle...

Fuck ME!

Well,

I pulled the rest of the plastic tie remants out of the steering wheel with my needle nose pliers, sanded down the rest, straighened out the ripped out "H"
sanded the bottom and applied some 3M Emblem Adhesive and repositioned it on the steering wheel...having bent the ImportShark Winged G replacement in my initial attempt, I reorderd it...by the time I got it, the reattached "H' was solid as a rock, the replacement went on and now looks OEM...

I guess I was never cut out to be a bodyshop guy, but I do learn from my mistakes.....Hope no one else makes the same one

dude i did the exact same thing. but in the end i filled the whole with perfectly cut 3m tape to fill the whole flat enough to put the emblem on. looks ok but it has a small indent into the emblem that wont come out unless i really fuck with it

Deckedredcoupe,
Bite the bullet dude and order another emblem, once it indents it never looks right...
once you smooth down where the ties were the raised "H" in the steering wheel
that sat under the silver one on the oem thingie you ripped out is enougt to
anchor the new emblem and it looks like that's the way it came from the factory...