BMW accessory Nardi 365mm steering wheels. these are uber rare as far as I know. I have two of them and I think there is one more in my stash somewhere, I will update the thread when I dig it up.
wheel #1 is complete and pretty much as good as you can expect something 20 years old to be unless it was NOS which this is not - there is evidence on the slipring of it having been installed. the hub adapter is in place and complete. the horn pad is a foam piece with a hard outer shell, similar to what you'd find on an M-tech II wheel. it attaches to a floating horn button which attaches to two of the screws on the wheel itself. wheel is standard 6-bolt pattern. the horn pad has faux hex head screws on it which look like typical center of an aftermarket wheel.
please note that I have not yet test-fitted this to an E30. as most here likely know, the spline pattern on E30s is common with E34 and E36 but the offset of the wheel and the clockspring dimensions are not identical. the early E34 and all E30 share the same part number in the ETK and I believe this one is that type (though the visible part numbers don't match up, nor match the later E36 one). I will try to hook up with someone locally to check fitment and horn operation on a running E30 as mine is buried in the garage. my records show that this is a common part across E30/E34/etc which share the same steering column set-up, but I need to confirm absolutely. $400 shipped in continental US.
wheel #2 lacks the OE hub adapter and may therefore be a pretty simple install for someone with a normal 6-bolt E30 adapter. it has a ~1" scratch at the 5:00 position in the wheel, visible in this pic. the horn pad has some discoloration as compared to wheel #1. it looks like someone tried to remove the faux hex head fasteners, but they aren't really buggered up. if one wanted to get tricky you could probably pull out the faux heads and put actual screws into the foam. you will need to put together some sort of horn button to float the horn pad on as the OE set-up did, but I reckon that can be done with a bit of ingenuity. there may even be Nardi or Momo or whomever stock parts to make a floating horn pad function, I've only had the simpler center-button horn aftermarket wheels. $300 shipped in continental US.
wheel #1 is complete and pretty much as good as you can expect something 20 years old to be unless it was NOS which this is not - there is evidence on the slipring of it having been installed. the hub adapter is in place and complete. the horn pad is a foam piece with a hard outer shell, similar to what you'd find on an M-tech II wheel. it attaches to a floating horn button which attaches to two of the screws on the wheel itself. wheel is standard 6-bolt pattern. the horn pad has faux hex head screws on it which look like typical center of an aftermarket wheel.
please note that I have not yet test-fitted this to an E30. as most here likely know, the spline pattern on E30s is common with E34 and E36 but the offset of the wheel and the clockspring dimensions are not identical. the early E34 and all E30 share the same part number in the ETK and I believe this one is that type (though the visible part numbers don't match up, nor match the later E36 one). I will try to hook up with someone locally to check fitment and horn operation on a running E30 as mine is buried in the garage. my records show that this is a common part across E30/E34/etc which share the same steering column set-up, but I need to confirm absolutely. $400 shipped in continental US.
wheel #2 lacks the OE hub adapter and may therefore be a pretty simple install for someone with a normal 6-bolt E30 adapter. it has a ~1" scratch at the 5:00 position in the wheel, visible in this pic. the horn pad has some discoloration as compared to wheel #1. it looks like someone tried to remove the faux hex head fasteners, but they aren't really buggered up. if one wanted to get tricky you could probably pull out the faux heads and put actual screws into the foam. you will need to put together some sort of horn button to float the horn pad on as the OE set-up did, but I reckon that can be done with a bit of ingenuity. there may even be Nardi or Momo or whomever stock parts to make a floating horn pad function, I've only had the simpler center-button horn aftermarket wheels. $300 shipped in continental US.
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