How to preheat the steering wheel

Heated steering is an additional option that allows the driver to comfortably operate the car in winter during cold weather. On many premium and business-class cars, this system is already in the kit. How to be owners of cars that are deprived of this opportunity?

Heated steering can be installed in a car workshop or try to do it yourself. When you contact a specialist, you have to pay for a warm steering wheel, and this service is not cheap. The total amount for heating the steering wheel, depending on the brand of the car can reach up to twenty thousand rubles.

In the absence of a desire to overpay auto services and confidence in their abilities, you can try to install this warm option yourself. However, it must be borne in mind that this work is not as simple as it might seem at first glance.

At the first stage, you need to remove the steering wheel and decorative trim, which is a leatherette or skin. It should be taken into account that if the steering wheel is equipped with a substrate adhered to the rim or skin, then it may break during work, therefore, special care must be taken. To do this, you need to cut the tightening center thread from the lacing of the handlebars, remove it, and then gently peel off the skin. After doing this, remove the adhesive residues from the rim and get to the plastic.

After removing the trim in the rim of the steering wheel, you need to insert the heating elements. The most difficult at this stage is to install the concealed wiring, which is carried to the center of the rudder. This requires a copper lacquered wire eight-meter length, soldering iron, solder, flux, electrical tape, glue and other devices. Since the wire is very thin, then when winding it on the steering wheel, you must be careful not to break it in any way.

It is necessary to determine the appropriate wires from which the power will be supplied to the heating element. Many car owners use a cigarette lighter for this purpose, however, it is not available in all models. In this case, the heating of the rudder can be connected to a regular system that provides heating of the seats, and output it as a separate button to the panel.

Having finished these manipulations, they make a constriction of the rim of the rudder, install the device in its place and check the car's efficiency. This is done in reverse order of removal, the skin is pulled on the steering wheel again, glue the skin and zashnurovyvayut device.

If the steering is heated in a car workshop, it usually takes about two days.

Another option for installing a warm steering wheel is a self-contained pre-heater. Today, there are many ready-made heating systems on the market. For example, you can buy a special braid on the wheel of the brand "Pitstop HOT HANDS", which is the size suitable for the steering wheels of most cars from different manufacturers. The convenience of this device is that the heated steering can be turned on, even when the car is located in the parking lot. It takes just a few minutes to warm up the steering wheel. And, that pleases, the given system is quite inexpensive: from 800 rubles. It is important only to remember that before starting traffic, you need to disconnect the power cord.

A good system of heating the steering wheel is a device of the brand "ACVST". This option can be used both separately and together with seat heating. The kit includes heating elements for the steering wheel, wires with fuses, and switches. The presence of detailed instructions will allow you to install a heated steering wheel without any problems.

Thus, the choice of the way to heat the steering wheel remains with the owner of the car. It is important that in the future the driver was comfortable in the cabin of the car in any frost.