ratdude747 Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 I thought of this thread when seeing this used 1985 steering wheel with cruise buttons: https://www.ebay.com/itm/124816536585?hash=item1d0fa53409:g:O9EAAOSwD15g52ZF Very tempting but out of current budget! Good point on looking for the whole wheel, not just the bar... Duh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1986F150Six Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Very tempting but out of current budget! Good point on looking for the whole wheel, not just the bar... Duh. Here is another consideration at a lower price: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294283004403?hash=item4484a249f3:g:3RQAAOSwBD1g9McO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1986F150Six Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Here is another consideration at a lower price: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294283004403?hash=item4484a249f3:g:3RQAAOSwBD1g9McO One more, from a van: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184952724485?hash=item2b100a9c05:g:pnkAAOSwpd9g9Y66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1986F150Six Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 One more, from a van: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184952724485?hash=item2b100a9c05:g:pnkAAOSwpd9g9Y66 Making do at a much lower price? https://www.ebay.com/itm/304071126872?hash=item46cc0d2f58:g:UJwAAOSwhTtg81gu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdude747 Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 Making do at a much lower price? https://www.ebay.com/itm/304071126872?hash=item46cc0d2f58:g:UJwAAOSwhTtg81gu Best offered. My rosewood is shot on my cover so this is close enough. I can always try to refinish it later if I cared that much... At least it's not in literal cracked up chunks. Edit- bought. Was able to haggle it down a bit... Other than the wood pattern (or lack thereof), that's a very close match to what's on there now (buttons are correct, bar shape is correct, and the logo is embossed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsmblue Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Best offered. My rosewood is shot on my cover so this is close enough. I can always try to refinish it later if I cared that much... At least it's not in literal cracked up chunks. Edit- bought. Was able to haggle it down a bit... Other than the wood pattern (or lack thereof), that's a very close match to what's on there now (buttons are correct, bar shape is correct, and the logo is embossed). Now you are all causing me problems!!! One more beer and I’ll pull the trigger in that wheel.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsmblue Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Now you are all causing me problems!!! One more beer and I’ll pull the trigger in that wheel.. Urgh… trigger pulled. It took one more sip not one more beer. I now have more steering wheels on the shelf than in trucks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1986F150Six Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Urgh… trigger pulled. It took one more sip not one more beer. I now have more steering wheels on the shelf than in trucks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdude747 Posted July 22, 2021 Author Share Posted July 22, 2021 Best offered. My rosewood is shot on my cover so this is close enough. I can always try to refinish it later if I cared that much... At least it's not in literal cracked up chunks. Edit- bought. Was able to haggle it down a bit... Other than the wood pattern (or lack thereof), that's a very close match to what's on there now (buttons are correct, bar shape is correct, and the logo is embossed). Came in today. Good news: -Unit is in good (enough) cosmetic shape. Only broken piece is the silver trim ring around the coast/set switch (which I'm pretty sure I have intact on mine, requires dissecting the switch). -The fake tan leather around the cruise buttons is all one tan plastic piece unlike mine (which is a black plastic under layer with a plastic wrap containing the rosewood finish, which is all falling apart). Bad news: -Took it apart... found chafed wiring on the cruise buttons. Will address while I have it in pieces. Not digging the worn fake leather finish... since I doubt I can just buy a rosewood look-alike "wallpaper" to wrap things, what to do? Paint it brown and call it close enough? Or come up with a different color scheme for the rosewood in the rest of the interior? The only other rosewood I have is on the dash (instrument cluster and radio/HVAC bezel)... it's in OK shape, but not perfect (chips/flaws) and my truck isn't a show piece either. Maybe red or orange? Ideas welcome here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdude747 Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 Came in today. Good news: -Unit is in good (enough) cosmetic shape. Only broken piece is the silver trim ring around the coast/set switch (which I'm pretty sure I have intact on mine, requires dissecting the switch). -The fake tan leather around the cruise buttons is all one tan plastic piece unlike mine (which is a black plastic under layer with a plastic wrap containing the rosewood finish, which is all falling apart). Bad news: -Took it apart... found chafed wiring on the cruise buttons. Will address while I have it in pieces. Not digging the worn fake leather finish... since I doubt I can just buy a rosewood look-alike "wallpaper" to wrap things, what to do? Paint it brown and call it close enough? Or come up with a different color scheme for the rosewood in the rest of the interior? The only other rosewood I have is on the dash (instrument cluster and radio/HVAC bezel)... it's in OK shape, but not perfect (chips/flaws) and my truck isn't a show piece either. Maybe red or orange? Ideas welcome here... Switch part swap complete. Do not recommend; the upper plastics are glued on and very fragile. was able to make it work, but it required breaking the lower plastics of my existing switches (buttons corroded, hence why I didn't just move them directly). Broke the upper too... but since I had both pieces, I was able to glue it all back together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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