Fierce competition between car manufacturers has led the industry to incredible progress. Many manufacturers are interested in attracting a potential buyer to their brand. It’s especially difficult to come up with a new one for luxury cars, everything should be just at the highest level there.
Where is the steering wheel heating?
Often, manufacturers do everything to maximize the comfort and appearance of the car. The heated steering wheel seemed incredible, but you won’t surprise anyone. A similar option is present not only in premium cars, many manufacturers install steering wheel heating, not only foreign cars, but domestic ones.
As for the rest, older cars, where there is no steering wheel heating, then not everything is lost. You just need to know a few simple rules and make the steering wheel heating yourself. On VAZ you can also install this nice option, then the car will gain a second youth. When buying parts for heating, it is not recommended to save on them, because the reliability of the mechanism will depend on them.
Necessary inventory and materials
There is no need to use this function for a whole year, because in summer it is pointless. But in order to be comfortable behind the wheel of a car at any time of the year, it is necessary to make a steering wheel heating yourself. Moreover, you do not need to purchase expensive tools and parts, everything is sold on every corner, in the market, in a store, on the Internet.
To warm the steering wheel you need to purchase:
- a set for heating the seats, a relay for adjusting temperatures, it also serves as a fuse against excessive heating;
- sharp knife and ordinary scissors;
- insulation tape, adhesive tape on both sides;
- paste sealant;
- better get the steering wheel right away, leave the original one in reserve, if your experiment is unsuccessful, you will have your own steering wheel.
The heating installation process
Many motorists simply do not know how to make a steering wheel heating on their own, for this you only need to approach with responsibility and seriousness of intentions. The whole process of warming does not take much time, but there are processes where you need to be as accurate and accurate as possible.
- To get started, remove the steering wheel, you should not tell in this topic how to remove the steering wheel, because each car is unique, and no one will tell you better how to do this than the instruction manual.
- Now let's start the drawing lesson. At this stage, using a marker, you need to draw lines where the heating elements will be placed. It all depends on your imagination and the length of the materials, so that is enough for the entire steering wheel.
- You need to take a sharp knife and make incisions according to the previously drawn pattern on the steering wheel from the outside.
- We make the winding, at this stage you need to fix all the wires well and stick them where necessary. We bend the bends with electrical tape.
- Do-it-yourself steering wheel heating at the first stage is almost complete. It remains only to take care of the comfort of the driver and with the help of a sealant to cover all the roughnesses of the steering wheel.
You can also sheathe the steering wheel with leather or any other material that fits the interior of your vehicle. To fit the steering wheel with leather, you need to use a cardboard pattern, which will consist of several parts. Then we cut out pieces of leather that we need on a cardboard, put them on the steering wheel and carefully sew the cover on the inside of the steering wheel.
How to connect the system
To make the steering wheel heating work, you need to connect it directly to the car. To do this, do the following:
- First of all, you need to install the button, it must activate and turn off the heating mode. The switching mechanism can be purchased at any specialized electrical appliance store. For your convenience, the button can be hidden under the steering wheel.
- Then we determine where there will be a minus, and where is a plus. For this we use two copper plates, their thickness should be up to 1.5 millimeters.
- Using a soldering iron, we connect the copper plates and with the help of a relay we connect the wires to the battery. If it is not possible to purchase plates, you can use the rings, fasten them to double-sided tape.
- In order for the steering wheel to be heated with high quality and there is no short circuit, it is necessary to pour a sufficient amount of epoxy glue between the copper elements.
- Next, the motorist must make a hole in the steering wheel, not far from the copper element, so that it can be placed there, an additional contact.
- One contact is minus, the second is plus, and the third does not need to be connected to anything.
- All contacts must be insulated.
This is the end of the process, install the "steering wheel" in place. So you did the steering wheel heating yourself. Kalina, GAZ, VAZ and any imported car models can undergo a warming procedure. Indeed, even now, manufacturers do not install insulation on every car, although this is no longer unbelievable.
Motorcycle steering wheel insulation
A motorcyclist who loves to ride in late autumn or winter does not need to explain why he should do the steering wheel heating on a motorcycle with his own hands. After all, the body can be protected from the cold with jackets, sweaters, down jackets, clothes will not greatly interfere with management, unlike mittens.
How is heating
The heating design is very simple, the principle of its operation is similar to a conventional kitchen electric stove. Electricity passes through a wire that heats up, making the steering wheel warmer.
Spirals for heating are sold in hardware stores, their price is not high. Having unwound this spiral, you get up to 15 meters of wire, which will serve as a heating element.
Important! No need to take spirals with a power of more than 800 watts, otherwise the steering wheel will not be warm, but hot, which is also not comfortable.
Heating installation
To begin with, we look at how much wire is needed on one handle, and then on the second. The ends of the wires are soldered to the heating element and wound a spiral on the handles. We connect the heating element to the battery.
On handles over a winding it is necessary to wind an insulating tape, a bicycle chamber or something similar. It is possible to set a heating temperature controller.
This design is good enough in terms of warming the driver, but there are several disadvantages. Handle heating consumes a lot of energy, it is recommended to put a night light bulb a little less power. Also, many people are not satisfied with the appearance of pens wrapped with electrical tape or something else.
findings
From all of the above, you now know how to make a steering wheel heating yourself, so that it is really high-quality and practical. This option is not considered expensive, and the installation procedure itself is very simple, you do not need to perfectly understand electrical appliances for installing heating.
The steering wheel insulation can be put on cars and motorcycles, the installation system is almost the same. Only in the case of two-wheeled vehicles, some questions arise regarding the voltage generated by the battery and the advisability of installing a steering wheel heating.
Whatever the disadvantages of installing a steering wheel heater, there is one plus that you cannot disagree with is heat. After all, it is the driver who controls his vehicle, so he should not freeze when the temperature is below zero.