Hello, this is the first of two videos hopefully if all goes well on my
1997 Land Cruiser
I've taken the steering wheel off
And I'm sending it in to Craft Customs to have new leather put on it
So you can see the condition here
There's a little wear here on the seams as you get towards the top
It's pretty much worn away on the front the back is worn away a little bit here, too
One issue I have is that it's really sticky
I don't know it's like someone had ate a lot of candy that owned this before me it gets really sticky around in the Sun, so
They're gonna take all this off and put a new leather on it, and we'll rejoin this
video when I get the steering wheel back in a couple weeks
Welcome back you didn't leave but I did it's been over three weeks since I made the last video
But I sent this in to Craft Customs on
March 1st and
I took this to the UPS store on that day shipped it to Texas from Iowa and
they
When they received that they called me confirmed everything, got my credit card information
And they recovered it and sent it back to me in today's March 24th, so it's 24 day
24 days from when I shipped it out
To when I received it back, so I don't want to discuss pricing here
That's kind of their business you can contact them. I'll put a link in the description. You know they're not paying me for this
But I'm just sharing this in case anyone's interested in getting their steering wheel recovered but
You know it's a couple hundred dollars. You can get exact pricing from them
and
So this is it here you can look at it up close
All around the steering wheel you can see here where
They kind of I think this gets glued in look at the stitching here
You can see the finger indents all the way around the wheel very tight
So in the box when I received it it had a
Little postcard here with their information on it it also had a note here
That says do not use hand sanitizer on it because it will ruin the finish
So it's something to keep in mind
For it, so I'm gonna put that air bag and trim back on here real quick
Just temporarily so you can look at it. I'm sure there'll be a little bit of a color difference, but
Well, I'll do that in all come back in just a second ok so here. I have the air bag. Just set in here
It's not installed obviously, but you can see there's a little darker. It's a little shinier
You know I wouldn't be surprised if this
You know gets a little shinier with use and kind of starts to match this a little more
You know I would never expect this to be a perfect match
But boy I'm pretty happy with this it looks good, so I'll take the air bag off here
And here's the back trim piece
There
I'd say that's a good actually matches a little bit better cuz not shiny but
that's a pretty good match if you ask me considering that the only thing I had to go on was the old leather I
Mean they may have color codes for this. I don't know but
You know the old leather looked nothing like this. It was a very shiny and
Did not look good, so
But like I said, I'll put a link in description to this Craft Customs here
so I don't know if I'll get it up right away, but I'll I may be doing a video of
Installing this back in the Land Cruiser if I get it done
But it may be a little while before I get that posted up
So I'll put like in the description of that - if I get finished it if there's no link there
I don't have the video finish yet, so we can always subscribe to my channel so if I do put the video up
You'll see it so and if this video is helpful you - I'd love if you could click like if you have any questions about
This process or you know
steering wheels or anything in general, please leave that in the comments and thanks for watching bye