Check out American Stitches (www.american-stitches.com 3149 N. I-30, Ste. H, Mesquite, Texas 75150 888-403-3403 972-613-2914) they can recover your steering wheel in new leather and can add 1/16" or 1/8" padding under the leather to "enhance its look and feel". They may also be able to recover your binnacle and possibly your E-brake handle and shift knob (if you want that). Ben Ferguson Member of the Board of Directors - American Hydrogen Association (www.clean-air.org) Member - Arizona DeLorean Club (www.az-d.org) captainhydrogen@xxxx --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Elgersma" <delorean@xxxx> wrote: > The steering wheel for the Delorean is a pricy item. I had a closer > look at the wheel and noticed that the cover is stitched on. I can > only think of how this was done. Is there anybody out there, > especially somebody in the upholstery business that can give me an > answer how the steering wheel cover can be removed and be replaced > with new leather. I am not about to experiment with the steering > wheel and start cutting the stitches to find out what lies beneath > the surface. The other matter is the binnacle itself. I realize that > the binnacle is not made out of the same fabric as the dash. This > made me wonder if the binacle can be reupholstered. Lets hear from > those that have tried one or the other or both. Any suggestions > would be really appreciated to quite a few of us. New grey binnacles > are scarce, and for that matter, very expensive. Is there an > alternative?? > JohnE > 10250