heinzboehmer's 2002 Topaz 6MT Coupe

[Obioban]

Coby wheels are wrapped over the existing leather making them slightly thicker. Not sure about anyone else, but stock is already borderline too thick. It's more work to take the old leather off and rewrap from the bare wheel, but you can see the difference in the end result. Based on the pictures, Tanik's work is on par with OE, but a few hundred bucks less - 700 vs 1000.

"too thick" is subjective. A previous wheel of mine I had extra foam added, for additional thickness :P

[BADCLOWN]

Both my wheels did not have the old leather or alcantara wrapped over and others that I know have not experienced that either. Mine is factory thickness and reconditioned to, in my opinion, OE or close to spec. I obviously have never had my hands on the company’s product mentioned above but it does look extremely nice.

[Slideways]

Can you elaborate on that? I obviously haven’t experienced the product from the aforementioned company but have had two cobywheels (one in my former ZHP and one in my current) and I think the quality is excellent. Just curious what the difference is, that’s all. Cobywheel always seemed to be the “go to”.

Coby wheels are wrapped over the existing leather making them slightly thicker. Not sure about anyone else, but stock is already borderline too thick. It's more work to take the old leather off and rewrap from the bare wheel, but you can see the difference in the end result. Based on the pictures, Tanik's work is on par with OE, but a few hundred bucks less - 700 vs 1000.

[heinzboehmer]

That quality looks really nice but out of curiosity, why didn’t you go with probably the most commonly known guy that does steering wheel refurb, cobywheel?

Yep, exactly what ugaexploder said.

Basically boils down to me being picky.

[ugaexploder]

Can you elaborate on that? I obviously haven’t experienced the product from the aforementioned company but have had two cobywheels (one in my former ZHP and one in my current) and I think the quality is excellent. Just curious what the difference is, that’s all. Cobywheel always seemed to be the “go to”.

Sure, of course. I think if you care about the M-stitching stuff, I think it might matter more. My design vision may have overdone the M-stitching stuff, but I found out the hard way that none of the M-stitching shown in the photos from most vendors was not right at all. Most of them looked like how the Coby one arrived...which isn't bad, it just has a bit more spacing than I would like. You can see from the photos below for the comparison. This is the reason I ultimately purchased the maar handels steering wheel which was a few hundred more.

Maar handels customer service is actually really great too...I realized my e-brake handle and boot had the stitching not properly aligned in terms of colors. they just sent me a new boot on the house.

COBY E-brake Boot



Maar Handels E-brake Boot