heated steering wheel is an option that allows the driver to comfortably operate the machine in the cold winter.On many vehicles premium and business class, the system is already in the set.How to be the owners of cars who are deprived of this opportunity?
heated steering wheel can be installed in the service station, or to try to do it yourself.When referring to the professionals have to pay for the warm wheel, but this service is not cheap.The total amount of the steering wheel heating, depending on the brand of car can be up to twenty thousand rubles.
In the absence of desire to pay car service and self-confidence you can try to set this option to warm themselves.However, it should be borne in mind that this work is not so easy as at first glance it may seem.
In the first step should be to remove the steering wheel and the decoration, which is a leather or skin.Please note that if the wheel is equipped with a glued to the rim of the skin or substrate, it can break at work, so extreme care must be observed.To do this, cut the constricting central thread laced wheel, remove it, and then carefully peel skin.By doing this, you should remove any residual adhesive from the rim and get to the plastic.
After removing the trim in the steering wheel rim to insert the heating elements.The most difficult at this stage to carry out the installation of hidden wiring, which is carried to the center of the steering wheel.This will require a copper wire lacquered eight-meter length, a soldering iron, solder, flux, insulating tape, glue and other devices.Since the wire is very thin, when it is wound on the steering wheel must be followed carefully so that in any case not zalomat.
necessary to determine the appropriate wires on which the power will be supplied to the heating element.Many car owners for this purpose use the cigarette lighter, but it is not available on all models.In that case, steering wheel heating can be connected to a standard system that provides heating down, and take it as a separate button on the panel.
finished data manipulation produces constriction of the rim wheel, the device is set into place and check the performance of the car.This is done in the reverse order of removal, sandpaper pull on the steering wheel again, bonded leather and laces device.
If the heated steering wheel is carried out in car-care center, it is usually it takes about two days.
Another option is the installation of the warm wheel standalone preheater.On the market today there are many ready-made heating systems helm.For example, you can buy a special braid on the steering wheel of the brand «Pitstop HOT HANDS», which is the size suitable for the steering wheels of most cars from different manufacturers.Convenience of this device is that the heated steering wheel can be turned on even when the car is parked.To warm up a few minutes enough booster.And it pleases, these systems are quite inexpensive: from 800 rubles.It is only important to remember that before the movement must disconnect the power supply cable.
good heating system booster is a device mark «ACVST».This option can be used separately or in conjunction with seat heating.Kit includes heating elements for steering, with fuses and switches.Have detailed instructions will install rear wheel without any problems.
Thus, the choice of heating steering remains with the owner of the car.It is important that in future the driver was comfortable inside the car in any frost.
