I bought this steering wheel off ebay. The larger section is very flexible and almost moves a few inches back and forth pivoting at the 2 upper supports. The lower section is very solid/strong. Is the outside metal ring supposed to be a solid piece and should this be very strong. I have an identical wheel that is solid all the way around with no flex... Thinking I should send this back... notice the pictures of how much I can push this back and forth.. thanks for any advice.
Yup, the inner structural ring is broken. The wheel is just being held together by the rubber grips. No way to fix that, its done. If that wasn't disclosed to you, send it back. The outer trim ring is just that, a piece of trim.
If that inner ring is metal it can be welded. Removing the "trim" and reinstalling is a different story though if it isn't bolted to the inner ring.
Sure it can, but its encased inside the rubber. There no way to remove the rubber without destroying the wheel.
Cool, wasn't sure how that style wheel is assembled, my car has the other style wheel. Some strategic cutting the rubber away, weld, grind smooth and carefully glue back together could be something to try if in the OP gets stuck with the wheel. That rubber should be easily glued I would think anyway, haven't ever tried it but would if I had to. GL
yeah, that's what I was afraid of... the guy replied of course that it was fine and nothing wrong with it.... the box shows no sign of damage and it would take a lot to break it in 2 spots to move like it does during shipping.... it doesn't sound like he's going to take it back with a fight... will most likely have to file a claim on e-bay.
That's accident damage, not shipping damage. Those wheels don't break that easy. That didn't happen in shipping unless a tractor trailer ran the box over.
Agreed. That wheel probably came from a car that was totalled . Hopefully the driver only received broken ribs.
Yeah, hope so..... this sucks... the guy is sticking hard at there was nothing wrong with it and have to battle through ebay/PayPal claims now.
Pay Pal is a little bias toward the buyer, which would be you. I bought a John Deere garden tractor off of eBay that was advertised as new with the ad copied and pasted from a John Deere dealership that said there would be a rep that would show up with the tractor to show how to use it and was supposed to have a warranty. Well the thing gets here and there is like 5 hours on the hour counter with cut grass stuck to the underside like how a used machine gets. So I contacted the seller, went back and forth with them letting them know it was a used machine, no warranty, no guy, just try to get a couple hundred back to buy a warranty for it. They weren't having any of that so after I gave up and just quit replying THEY contacted the arbitrator to settle the grievance. HAH! They sided with me from reading the back and forth emails and I got a total refund and didn't even have to return the tractor! Actually I believe Pay Pal reimbursed me because that eBay store disappeared after that dispute. The one lucky thing that ever happened to me in my crapstorm of a life, a free John Deere 110 garden tractor. Gotta love buying from eBay!
Took the words right out of my mouth. Turn in a PayPal dispute ..... make sure it's timely ..... and take pics of the damage/problem and the shipping materials (that are not damaged) indicating the part was broken when shipped. PayPal should do the rest.
Have started the process. Ebay provided a prepaid return label and says I should get a refund within 6 days of it being delivered.
