I am new to the world of MINI but not to doing mods on nice cars. Is there a MINI aftermarket for upgraded OEM steering wheels? I am picking up a 2016 F55 later this week and it does have the JCW steering wheel installed, so I am excited to see what that feels like.
In other vehicles one of the nicest upgrades was upgrading the OEM steering wheel and I was curious if anyone has found a top end supplier of such a part? I have found a few listed on Ebay, but I would rather hear it from the forum first.

In the Corvette world, you have folks like CaravaggioCorvettes, DS Vettes, Apsis and a few others that will upgrade your OEM steering wheel.

Can you recommend anyone in the world of MINI?

Thanks

 

I have used DCT Motorsports for many years they have made a lot of custom wheels for me, but I always buy a second wheel and send it to them. They just did one for my C7 (being installed today), and I just sent them one for my new Range Rover

 

I've seen the guys on ebay work. Looks good, I've asked them to do an all leather wheel. They're not interested. While I love carbon fiber, it's not what I want. To date I haven't seen DCT's work. I'm pretty sure both of these companies have their work done overseas.
Redlinegoods offer a service where you order the respective leather cover from them , they ship it to you for inspection, then you ship them your wheel choose the thread color and whether you want padding and thumb grips.

 

They do have their work done overseas but I have never been disappointed, my C7 wheel looks great they did exactly what I asked for all leather only. I never have it any other way.

 

Pics???

 

here is a picture of the c7 wheel

 

That looks great

 

just jcw wheel is already quite nice. You might give it a shot before trying to upgrade. That being said I've also heard a lot of good things about DCT. I plan on getting a 996 wheel from them at some point.

 

and I had a screen name issue, so I am actually the OP for this thread. zipitydooda is now Camptown.

Ok
Just to update this a bit, I did like the factory JCW wheel, but I LOVE this steering wheel. I decided to take a chance on this vendor I found on Ebay and again on Facebook. Since they are making wheels for Audi, Lambo and other exotics I figured the build quality should be up to par for a MINI. Nexon Motors and Carbon Mini combined to make this steering wheel. It's has a thicker feel and the carbon fiber feels great and the leather and sticking is first class all the way. Then I added the Carbon Mini overlays to the stems to round out the carbon look. And all of this is inside a "Carbon Edition" MINI, so it's a natural fit. I had my car in for an oil change today and all of the techs were checking out the wheel and asking me questions if it was a stock part or where I found it.

Onto the pictures
Nexon Motors Wheel





NOW WITH THE CARBON MINI OVERLAYS ADDED

 

Not usually a carbon fiber (or anything but leather) steering wheel fan, but that does look very nice.

 

Really, really N-I-C-E............I like that a-lot.

 

That looks great.

 

Turns out I like the JCW wheel (for now) and since there does not seem to be a way (at least not one I have found yet) to be able to use paddles if the car did not come with them (I would love to be totally wrong about this so feel free to enlighten me), I will leave it alone for now. After all car only has 26 miles on it.

 

Beautiful Steering wheel. Well done

 

Changed my mind turns out I don't like the steering wheel just bought another wheel yesterday, sending to DCT (this will make the third wheel this year )as soon as it gets here, I rally do not like those thumb grips having them removed just like on the C7 wheel. Do not get this obsession with thumb grips on cars that will likely never drive past a track let along be on one. My shop just picked up the car a couple minutes ago new tires, JB4 install, and I am letting them see if they can get the AWE unit in. In all fairness I have only one good hand (my dominant hand is in wrist brace most of the time old age and arthritis take their toll), and my Aspergers does allow for much tolerance when things do not work the way they should right away.

 

Wow camptown, that Nexon steering wheel looks amazing !!! No wonder the techs were all over it. Gutsy move taking a chance on it, you really scored. Looks incredible.