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For starters....DISSCONNECT THE BATTERY AND WAIT AT LEAST A HALF HOUR BEFORE WORKING ON ANY SRS RELATED EQUIPMENT
1) OK. stock steering wheel. Now it's time to beef up our car security by installing a steering wheel with a quick release hub. I might as well remind you ahead of time to straighten your wheels out right now so that when we install our aftermarket wheel, we wont have to guess what angle the wheel should go in.
2)Pry open the plastic piece below the wheel and detach this yellow connector
3)It's for the airbacg...disconnect it
4)Pry open a plastic piece on both sides of the wheel (the right side might feel like the plastic cover wont come off...take it off at will. be carefull because you wont want to break it in unwanted areas) and you'll see a torqs screw. Use a torqs screw driver to remove these screws.
5)After each torqs scerw is removed, we're good to remove the front part of the wheel
6)Remove carefully
7)Here's a hard part. I know my hand is shown here. I actually used leg power for this part because this screw is on soo tight, you wont be able to remove it with any of your hands, I placed the socket into position whil I was siting on the passenger side. Foot on the socket wrench and pushed with my leg...Try it, you'll see why I recommend using your legs
8)Finally off...wheeew. that was hard
9)(steering wheel) Remove the yellow piece by sliding it away
10)Detach this yelloe plastic piece as well
11)THis is for your horn. disconnect it as well.
12)With all that disconnected, we can finally remove the whole steering wheel
13)Only thing left in our way is the airbag component. Safety purposed, I'd hate removing this, but it's useless now...
14)Let's compare our steering wheel sizes for a sec...well well well. My aftermarket is smaller. Given that I don't have power steering (plus the smaller sized wheel), I will have a more difficult time turning on a stop.
15)time to install the wheel & quick release
16)another angle. Blue & Black is the theme color on this car...
17)2 simple screws will take this thing off
18)Not all the way off yet. Look beneath the steering column. THere's also some white dust hanging around here. Just blow it off. COver your eyes!
19)This yellow plug will finally disconnect our airbag component
20)Sell it on e-bay or keep it for later use.
21)position your steering wheel hub into place. Remember this bad boy that was too stubborn to come off? time to screw him back in.
22)After that, you can install & assemble the rest of the steering wheel on to the HUB. It's straight forward stuff.
23)With the wheel detached, I can take my wheel with me when I'm not close to my car
For starters....DISSCONNECT THE BATTERY AND WAIT AT LEAST A HALF HOUR BEFORE WORKING ON ANY SRS RELATED EQUIPMENT
1) OK. stock steering wheel. Now it's time to beef up our car security by installing a steering wheel with a quick release hub. I might as well remind you ahead of time to straighten your wheels out right now so that when we install our aftermarket wheel, we wont have to guess what angle the wheel should go in.
2)Pry open the plastic piece below the wheel and detach this yellow connector
3)It's for the airbacg...disconnect it
4)Pry open a plastic piece on both sides of the wheel (the right side might feel like the plastic cover wont come off...take it off at will. be carefull because you wont want to break it in unwanted areas) and you'll see a torqs screw. Use a torqs screw driver to remove these screws.
5)After each torqs scerw is removed, we're good to remove the front part of the wheel
6)Remove carefully
7)Here's a hard part. I know my hand is shown here. I actually used leg power for this part because this screw is on soo tight, you wont be able to remove it with any of your hands, I placed the socket into position whil I was siting on the passenger side. Foot on the socket wrench and pushed with my leg...Try it, you'll see why I recommend using your legs
8)Finally off...wheeew. that was hard
9)(steering wheel) Remove the yellow piece by sliding it away
10)Detach this yelloe plastic piece as well
11)THis is for your horn. disconnect it as well.
12)With all that disconnected, we can finally remove the whole steering wheel
13)Only thing left in our way is the airbag component. Safety purposed, I'd hate removing this, but it's useless now...
14)Let's compare our steering wheel sizes for a sec...well well well. My aftermarket is smaller. Given that I don't have power steering (plus the smaller sized wheel), I will have a more difficult time turning on a stop.
15)time to install the wheel & quick release
16)another angle. Blue & Black is the theme color on this car...
17)2 simple screws will take this thing off
18)Not all the way off yet. Look beneath the steering column. THere's also some white dust hanging around here. Just blow it off. COver your eyes!
19)This yellow plug will finally disconnect our airbag component
20)Sell it on e-bay or keep it for later use.
21)position your steering wheel hub into place. Remember this bad boy that was too stubborn to come off? time to screw him back in.
22)After that, you can install & assemble the rest of the steering wheel on to the HUB. It's straight forward stuff.
23)With the wheel detached, I can take my wheel with me when I'm not close to my car
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