STEERING WHEEL SKIN PEELING OFF

[Bryan413]

Hi All,

 

Good day!

 

Is there anyone who experienced or noticed slowly peeling off of steering wheel skin? this happens to Subaru less than 2 or 1 year old.

What factors that may affect the quality of the steering wheel skin?

 

thank you!

 

Best regards,

Bryan

 

[MR_Loyale]

Should be covered under warranty. 

[gbhrps]

Bryan413,

 

That's the top leather skin layer peeling off, from a bad leather batch. Warranty issue on a less than 3 year old car.

[Bryan413]

Hi gbhrps and MR_Loyale,

 

Good day!

 

Aside from bad leather batch, is there other factor/s that causes the leather skin to peel of early?

 

Thank you!

 

best regards,

Bryan

[whynot]

All the leather in you car should be treated periodically with a leather conditioner of some type. I would assume that also means the steering wheel? I do not do it, but have been told I should...

[Bushwick]

I don't know if Subaru does this or not, but many manufacturers have a standard rubber-grain steering wheel like what appears in their base models, and they just stitch a leather cover those. So if you were to pull the stitches out of the cover, you'd have a normal model steering wheel. On high-mileage cars where the leather is heavily worn, you can pull the cover and have a brand new steering wheel essentially, which can clean up the look of the interior, especially if going with a private sale.

 

If you can find out what's under the leather cover, you might be able to just remove it and not have any future issues.

 

FWIW, sweaty hands, holding the steering wheel in the same spot constantly, etc. will wear the leather covers faster.

[Bryan413]

Thank you Bushwick.