heinzboehmer's 2002 Topaz 6MT Coupe

[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

[BADCLOWN]

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”.

[ugaexploder]

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?

the difference in stitching quality is pretty great between the two. if you can spare the extra money, it’s a no brainer to go with maar handels gmbh. not trying to bad mouth coby stuff, but the stitching on the maar stuff is immaculate.