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Subject:Re: 81 steering wheel height
From:wb6otg
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:56:04 -0500

>I can see the speedo clearly in my wife's '84, which uses a lightly larger
>diameter and smaller cross section steering wheel.  When power steering was
>installed in '85, VW went to a smaller diameter and lightly cushier wheel,
>which blocks my view of about half of the speedo.  You might try using a
>wheel from an '84 and see if there's an improvement.

Just make sure the '84 isn't a Wolfsburg edition.  They put power steering (and the smaller wheel) on these.

My wife added a big, fuzzy steering wheel cover, and now I can't see anthing from 30 to 70 mph!  Oh, well, I just follow traffic or use the GPS speed readout.

Bill

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