Date:         Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:28:12 EST
Reply-To:     Oxroad@AOL.COM
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From:         Jeffrey R <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: steering wheel/seats
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Somehow I've grown fond of my big wheel too on my 83.5 Westy. In fact I just
wrapped it in a tan "leather" with the hole design wrap from Axium or
whatever that company is. I got it at Pep Boys. The kind of wrap your
neighbors dad used to have on the big wheel in the Caprice Classic station
wagon.

It gives my bus a kind of kind gentle look and feel. And some how makes me
feel like my bus at moments could be a 67. I actually don't know if the wraps
were brought out in the 60s or 70s. But without that knowledge it makes me
feel 1967. The tan accents the brown interior nice as well.

My question is, with the Westfalia seats on the pedistals, would the driver
of the bus lose sight of the upper portion of the speedo and tach id he put
on the smaller steering wheel. My big wheel just clears the gauges on their
outer corners. (Of course driver height and seat adjustment must dictate
parts of it as well.) But I'm 6 foot and wondering if the smaller wheel in
conjunction with the higher Westy seat would diminish the sight line to the
guages.   In fact I wonder if that smaller wheel was a factor when VW
redesigned the insturment cluster and moved the temp gauge to the bottom of
the tach where it couldn't be blocked by the smaller wheel?

Just thinkin...
Jeff
83.5 Westy
LA,CA