Aftermarket heated steering wheel?
As I get older I find my hands get cold very easily, and take longer to warm up... An ongoing thing for years has been the steering wheel in my truck. In minus 20's and 30's it is like hanging onto...
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JimK-NY wrote:
It seems nothing is right for some people. What is it you want?
You cannot have a steering wheel with built in heat unless you buy a new vehicle or spend a fortune having someone make modifications and install a jerry rigged heated wheel. The add on options are not going to be satisfying since they are going to add bulk and include a wire that should not be used when driving.
You don't want gloves even heated or light weight gloves. I guess you are just going to have to continue with cold hands and a cold steering wheel.
Stayed up past midnight last night?
You CAN have a factory heated steering wheel after the vehicle was built IF you really wanted to go through the work and expense of mix and match parts.. OP has a GM so, not sure what trim they have and which trim level GM offered heated wheel but in Fords all it took was a Lariat steering wheel with heat plus the correct clock spring transplanted to a XL or XLT and perhaps a few other parts and one could indeed have factory heated steering wheel.. Expensive and time consuming but absolutely possible to do.
Heated and cooled seats are the exact same thing, all it takes is finding the correct trim level of seats and transplanting them.. Heck there is even aftermarket parts offered that you can buy new seat covers plus the heater so you can even reuse the seat you have.
Comfort options are out there, I understand OPs hesitancy of wearing gloves and the aftermarket heated steering wheel covers are pretty bulky. Not a fan of gloves, you lose tactile feel, even thin ones restrict feeling and movement but sometimes you just have to buck up and wear the correct clothing for the weather..
What OP can do is find one of the thin FOAM steering wheel covers as they are thin and don't add bulk to the wheel. The foam may give some insulation from the wheel to slow down the cold transfer from the wheel to hands.. I had put one of those on a 1970's vehicle for that reason. Worked better than grabbing a winter cold soaked wheel in the morning.
