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Mar 13, 2007 | 11:34 PM

#51

MotorMouth

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From: Mililani,Hawaii

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Originally Posted by Loui

TFM, was your call from Corporate or your MINI Dealer? My MA was adament that the wood wheel has been withdrawn from U. S. Hope you are right?

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Originally Posted by TFM

got a call from Mini today (following some complaints on my part) and was told that they will have a wooden steering wheel in about 3months and that they will exchange the leather one then.

While I am not thrilled about the delay, the service of the Mini dealer is quite impressive, very responsive, no haggling or arguing ...

yup, TFM is correct. The wood steering wheel is available again.

Mar 14, 2007 | 06:55 AM

#52

gokartride

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Originally Posted by MotorMouth

The wood steering wheel is available again.

This is encouraging...any more details on the redesign???

Mar 14, 2007 | 07:09 AM

#53

hellokelli

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From what I was told the new wood steering wheel is "back in production" so newly produced cars will have them, but they still haven't created a retrofit yet. They are "currently exploring a retrofit" is the answer I got.

Honestly, It makes me angry that people can get new cars with one, but I still can't get one. Although, I can't imagine a retrofit would be hard now that they have a steering wheel that passes the regulations.

Mar 14, 2007 | 07:54 AM

#54

Loui

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I believe that retrofiting a wheel should be easy for the dealer since they already retrofit a number of different wheels. I hope that MINI will give us the wooden wheel?