Re: Steering wheel restoration

Posted by Pat and Melanie Westerkamp On 2019/9/6 14:57:03

I received a quote from Quality restorations of 1900.00.

They use urethane, they strip the plastic off the wheel frame, bead blast the frame and paint it the same color of the original plastic. Then they cast on a specially formulated thermoset UV stable urethane plastic in the original configuration with out loss of the original detail. The urethane will not shrink, crack, turn yellow or change colors. The wheel is placed in the appropriate mold. The clear urethane is then tinted to the original color and added to the mold. After it is cured the plastic is heat treated, sanded and polished. The color is uniform through out the plastic, it is not a painted wheel, the wheel is one complete casting no joints....8-10 weeks turn around.

This is verbage from the quote...seems well done, not just covering problems or cracks. Seems expensive but there is a bunch of time and labor im sure.