Wood Rim Steering Wheel

[Gazza]

Just seen this on Facebook, love the steering wheel but would it pass an Mot without the airbag ?

[David]

That steering wheel is very puurrrty. It looks slightly out of place without any other wooden trim though, IMO.

[Brian H]

The letter of the law would state that it would not pass, I do wonder however how do the mot testers know what was fitted to the car as standard? Do they have a reference manual or on-line database? My guess is that it would pass an mot at a lot of garages.

[DC]

Sorry if it hurts anyone's feelings but it just doesn't look right to me.
Each to their own

[Robert T]

Same here, DC. Some people seem to think the Z3 is more "retro" than it really is. I don't think it carries it off very well at all. That same wheel would look great in my Sprite though.

On the MOT stakes, I think it would fail if the tester spots the airbag light on the dash. It must light and extinguish, so it will fail if either the light doesn't come on at all, or if it comes on and goes off and the car clearly doesn't have a functioning airbag.

Cheers R.

[Del]

It was the old wooden steering wheels that necessitated the wearing of driving gloves (for grip) - I'm with Robert T on this one in respect of the Z3. If I had a British racing green Morgan with wire wheels - a wooden wheel would look fab.

[DC]

It was the old wooden steering wheels that necessitated the wearing of driving gloves (for grip) - I'm with Robert T on this one in respect of the Z3. If I had a British racing green Morgan with wire wheels - a wooden wheel would look fab.

You mean like this?




Now replaced by Z3, wish I could have kept them both

[Robert T]

Now replaced by Z3, wish I could have kept them both

Look on the bright side - at least the Z3 won't get woodworm.

Cheers R.