[blue135]

Did not realize until yesterday that one needed to be in an outside lane when texting so that there was extra room when one's eyes are off the road. Lady managed to cover the lane and the shoulder consistently but then text was more important than where she was going. Unfortunately, the guy pulling the subsequently deformed landscape trailer was not as understanding.

[MASHCT]

Originally Posted by JABCAT

I just picked up this wheel for my wife's X3MC from Monaco Motorsports. I don't know if they have/can do Alcantara, but this wheel is excellent quality & it arrived 4 days after placing my order. Paid $625. You swap over all the components from your oem wheel.

I like this one too, Jabcat! Nicely done - looks OEM. Perforated leather looks sharp, sporty.

[MASHCT]

Originally Posted by BroDoze

Hard gloss carbon on a steering wheel has always cruded me out.
Has no place on a high-touch interface. Just MO.

Be thankful you never had to hold the vinyl covered or hard plastic steering wheels from the 70's! Or did you & the gloss CF is bringing back horrifying memories & post traumatic steering wheel disorder?

I feel your pain, but I dunno - that gloss CF looks so nice! Someone should do matte, though. Whoever does it first is gonna make a killing.

[BroDoze]

Originally Posted by MASHCT

Be thankful you never had to hold the vinyl covered or hard plastic steering wheels from the 70's! Or did you & the gloss CF is bringing back horrifying memories & post traumatic steering wheel disorder?

I feel your pain, but I dunno - that gloss CF looks so nice! Someone should do matte, though. Whoever does it first is gonna make a killing.

LOL. Remember the hard foam/plastic/rubber VW wheels on the Golf’s/GTIs etc? I honestly can’t remember what my VR6 Corrado had. Definitely some PTSWD.

[samwich]

I have the steering wheel, it’s awesome, but I was wondering if there’s a cover I could find for it to stop it from wearing down

[BroDoze]

Treat it with ColourLock Shield. It’ll resist dirt and wear, bigly.

[Whytar]

I ticked the 'alcantara' box on my 2025 LCI so I'm really expecting great things from the new wheel.

[gray_tabby]

Originally Posted by Dave07997S

Anyone get a part number for the OEM 25 steering wheel?

I found a good guide with actual part numbers: https://paddleshifterz.com/oem-bmw-m...-buyers-guide/
You will need more parts than just a steering wheel for 2024 M2. For my MT it's 6 new parts total for the retrofit.

I ordered from them, but one can probably order it cheaper from US vendors. Install pending, probably will get to it next week and post the result.

[Dave07997S]

Originally Posted by gray_tabby

I found a good guide with actual part numbers: https://paddleshifterz.com/oem-bmw-m...-buyers-guide/
You will need more parts than just a steering wheel for 2024 M2. For my MT it's 6 new parts total for the retrofit.

I ordered from them, but one can probably order it cheaper from US vendors. Install pending, probably will get to it next week and post the result.

Great info thanks. so what were you all in for the total amount of parts? The steering wheel is only $800.00, but the trim and other parts are probably going to add quite a bit.

[gray_tabby]

Originally Posted by Dave07997S

Great info thanks. so what were you all in for the total amount of parts? The steering wheel is only $800.00, but the trim and other parts are probably going to add quite a bit.

It was around $1.2K total. Those plastic trim covers and wire harness are not very expensive. I didn't go for CF trim as I don't have any CF in interior. That isn't cheap. I went for Alcantara + silver center trim.

[Good 4 2 reasons]

I thought we can swap the wiring harness and M button over from our factory steering wheel, or is it suggesting a new harness so people don't have to disassemble the one you take off?

[gray_tabby]

Originally Posted by Good 4 2 reasons

I thought we can swap the wiring harness and M button over from our factory steering wheel, or is it suggesting a new harness so people don't have to disassemble the one you take off?

M buttons are transferable. The harness I am not sure, I just followed the ordering guide, maybe the vibration motor (as it's different) has a different connector, we'll see.

[Albator_IIII]

I like my steering wheel like I like my women. No flat bottom.

[gray_tabby]

Originally Posted by gray_tabby

M buttons are transferable. The harness I am not sure, I just followed the ordering guide, maybe the vibration motor (as it's different) has a different connector, we'll see.

Finished the upgrade. The wheel is fatter than the original one for sure. I ended assembling the new wheel from OEM parts with only M buttons, front left/right buttons and horn plate transferred from the pre-LCI version. Very happy with the look from inside and outside (I have TR ). Getting in and out is much easier. Also I can lower the wheel a bit more as I like.

Taking airbag off was quite an adventure too, if you ever will be doing this, use a plastic chopstick!

The process went pretty much smoothly but I ended up with stripped threads on the 2 screw holes for the vibration motor mounts which was weird. I guess it's a manufacturing defect. I applied some thread locker but yeah.

Got some annoying errors after re-connecting the battery. Those stayed for a while but went away after I cleaned messages with Bimmerlink.

Interesting security feature discovered: if you disconnect the battery with the car locked the siren will go off. Don't ask me why I did that