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RedDragon777

Nice i would love to do this with red stitching.

watchdevil

You can do it man! Before we lost the thread there were people that posted they changed theirs. I remember particularly the fella who redid his in blue and it looked great!

NunezGT

Thats pretty clean. I would also like red stitching.

snster

this is great!!! i was just about to buy the GT500 steering wheel haha. i liked it due to the red stitching and the bars are black. Now i can prob do it all myself and have the bars painted.

snster

this is great!!! i was just about to buy the GT500 steering wheel haha. i liked it due to the red stitching and the bars are black. Now i can prob do it all myself and have the bars painted.

rmays06

Did mine cause of the tread, its really a cool mod. Thanks for the idea and posting it again.

TheDarkSide

Anyone in Florida that can stitch really well?! LOL

Dixie_Flatline

Those look phenomenal! About how long did it take? Also, I see you take the plastic trim off, how do you start and finish the threading, knot it on itself or tie it to something so it doesn't move? Are there any steps that aren't intuitive?

Thanks for resurrecting this thread, I never saw the old one!

watchdevil

It took me roughly an hour and a half or two hours... Patience is virtue here! I stitched it just like the original was stictched. Study the original stitching well before you remove it. Starting from the left side of any wheel spoke, you thread right to left. You thread like starting lace of a new pair of shoes. On the first stitch you just cross the two threaded needles over to each other then you start the criss-cross, always threading from under the split in the wrap and pulling it out from the top taught. Yeah it was necessary to pull the wheel trim off. It just snaps off and snaps back on, no drama. It is necessary to remove the trim to get close as possible to the spokes for a finished look like OEM. It's probably the most satisfying virtually free mod I have done!

I have seen the contrasting stitch on the 2010 wheels and this looks identically as good to me! All I did was do the same thing the assembly line worker did with the hand stiching.

I cannot wait to do the same type stitching and leather wrap on the 1984 Tbird I am restoring!

BTW I cannot believe this never became a sticky!

NunezGT

Where you from? How much to do mine? LOL

watchdevil

Charlotte North Carolina area here. I would not mind helping others get it done. However it is so easy to do yourself...

Dixie_Flatline

Thanks for the tips!! Definitely going to do this soon.

NunezGT

awww im in sacramento california

watchdevil

Looks great! Especially with the white shifter ball!

By the way you can easily do your shift boot to match. I redid the stitching in my custom ebrake boot Jim made for me.

kingofsting

how did you undo the original stitching? is there a specific size thread I should be looking for?

watchdevil

Easy to undo the original stitching. Just pull up a stitch with a needle and cut it. Then keep pulling out stiches until it is all done. It's like unlacing shoes. Work on one section between wheel spokes at one time.

You can use any thread size you wish, and even double it up it if is smaller than original. I would use a thread size at least identical to what you pulled out.