Anybody had any experiences purchasing their FBSW’s on ebay. Any tips or thing to be aware of or on the look out for? Thanks in advance.
Any links so people can tell if the lister is good. And help you out.
Noestly, I just typed in “Audi Flat Bottom Steering Wheel” and like a hundred listings popped up. I haven’t yet narrowed down that much. Looks like there are great deals if I went for one with a direct sweap for out airbag vs. getting the sexier euro with circular airbag. I am not too picky and just want a good “feel”.
B8.5 wheels and airbags should be a direct sway into the b7.
Doesn’t the RS4 have an airbacg that can swap into the FBSW with ‘squarish’ shape?
Don’t believe so, you have a few options, Euro RS4 wheel/airbag, TTRS wheel and airbag and the B8.5 wheel and airbag. These all have 2 stage airbag options. I picked up a B8 wheel for like 400 bucks off ebay.uk.
Was that with bag?? Awesome, of so.
It was not but I ended up picking up an airbag for around 400 as well. There are good deals to be had if you keep an eye out.
Thanks for the info!
would something like this work?
Of course it would, it’s just an OEM steering wheel, same as in your RS4, that has been reshaped into what it is now. Looks much better than OEM. All you have to do is swap in wiring harness and airbag from your current SW. There are slightly more involved designs outthere, but pricier as well.
Yeah, It looks a lot beefier (which I soooo like)… ;D
If you read at the bottom you need to get other stuff for it if you have a Rs4.
650 for a steering wheel. Wow that’s expensive but still cheep when you look at how insane some prices are.
Just noticed that…Errhhh…guess I will keep a looking. Thanks for looking out!!
Marcus, why don’t you want to buy one from Alex? Is it a price thing?
I think his price is a little crazy on the mark up side of things.
Something like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A5-S5-Flat-Bottom-Steering-Wheel-Black-Edition-Genuine-Ome-/321490155447?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item4ada4e77b7
And then an airbag. I can walk you through retiring your harness.
Hey Marcus, take a look at this site. I’ve perched items from them in the past very reasonable pricing as well.
Cheapest place I’ve found yet for a new TT-rs fbsw
there’s one on ebay for like 750 right now, all included
he has extra money and wants to burn it
You can find deals on these wheels. Personally, I don’t like the B8 S4/s-line wheels stitching…it’s a bit rough/sharp. And that leather seems a bit cheap. Needs to be all air leather.
Ideal for me would be the B7 RS4 FlatBottomSteeringWheel because it looks amazing and is super thick and contoured (despite the gay flat bottom) but with the buttons reprogrammed. I don’t need sport button…I don’t need to control the lap timer. What I need is accesss to the volume for my radio, a button to spur voice commands, and a button to switch into my phone book on DIS
Unfortunately nobody has figured this out yet. Seems straight forward, but I guess not.
So from there, I would look at a B8 RS5 or RS4 wheel. I think the flat bottomness is unnecessary and bit gay wannabe racecar, not to mention a little unsafe on a car that is 2.5-3.5 turns lock to lock (compared to a racecar where the wheel barely turns 0.5 each way, thus the flat bottom or top are irrelevant)
The first generation RS5 had a nice fat steering wheel I believe. The facelift is similar, but flat bottomed. Since everyone wants to be road-race-superstar flat bottom, you could get a nice chunky round wheel for a very fair price.