Custom steering wheels are used to personalize vehicles, with designs including leather, carbon fiber, and vintage styles. They may feature power accessory switches or electronic controls for racing. Even semi-trucks use custom steering wheels to individualize the owner’s truck, with some featuring LED lights or personalized engravings.
Custom steering wheels are used to personalize a variety of vehicles, from cars and trucks to boats. Typically designed with fine leather and carbon fiber or chrome, custom steering wheels may be smaller or larger in diameter than the original steering wheel, contain power accessory switches, or replicate a certain vintage steering wheel style. Often made from materials that tend to be more suitable for a show vehicle than an everyday drive vehicle, custom steering wheels are common among vehicle customizers, including a very small diameter chrome chain version or half wheel design. which resembles the controls of an airplane. Some boat owners choose to outfit their boat with a replica of an old wooden ship’s wheel, complete with exposed turns.
Many custom steering wheels built for high-quality vehicles are covered in custom leather that is dyed to match the interior or exterior color of the vehicle. Other versions of the custom wheel use billet aluminum to carve a one-of-a-kind steering wheel commonly created to highlight the vehicle’s name or inspiration, such as a spider web or honeycomb. Some custom wheels designed for racing mount electronic controls on the wheels to provide easy access to certain functions, such as buttons to activate nitrous oxide to increase speed or fire a parachute to slow a drag racing vehicle. .
The use of custom steering wheels has even spread to big platforms. Semi trucks often use a custom steering wheel to individualize the owner’s truck. It is common for the semi truck owner to install a larger diameter steering wheel to better represent an older truck. Older trucks did not have power steering, so they were equipped with very large diameter steering wheels to help the trucker turn the heavy truck through the use of leverage. As a common customization trait, semi-trucks are being modeled after vintage trucks, and the addition of custom steering wheels can often bring the final realistic touch to the truck.
Exotic touches such as Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are sometimes installed around the diameter of custom steering wheels to add another level of personalization to a vehicle. Other defining custom touches can be as subtle as the owner’s name or initials or even the year of the vehicle machined into the horn button area of the steering wheel. Some early versions of custom wheels were nothing more than a simple wheel with a custom center button.
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