{"id":2626,"date":"2011-09-16T21:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2011-09-17T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T07:00:18","slug":"wood-grain-gripping-nardi-classic-360mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/09\/wood-grain-gripping-nardi-classic-360mm\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Grain Gripping… Nardi Classic 360mm"},"content":{"rendered":"

As noted previously<\/a>, installation of the first Nardi steering wheel concluded disastrously. Not only did I break the horn button, I also botched up the actual spokes of the wheel. Courtesy of Nardi, the wheel came new with a couple light scratches. So of course I attempted to buff it out, which only yielded even further micro scratches in the process. It was a losing game. It got to the point where I had to wetsand the spokes with 2000grit, and that’s about when I decided to throw in the towel. <\/p>\n

I didn’t want to bother with it anymore, so I bought the same steering wheel again. Why not? Thanks to cheap knock-off companies using real Nardi horn buttons on their fake wheels, Nardi decided to bump up their prices. The horn button originally cost $40… now it sells for $100. Not exactly helpful for buyers of real Nardi wheels like me… Which is why it seemed more logical to just buy another wheel rather than cash out on a little button. <\/p>\n

Although the OMP suede wheel was perfectly good, I had made it a point to get this wood Nardi. I wanted a touch of class in a mostly uncivilized car. There’s a lot stacked against me for driving a cheap, Japanese, “tuner” car, so I need to do all I can to introduce a slightly higher level of refinement. <\/p>\n

3 wheels to achieve 1 result.
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For Nardi #2, I literally had it installed from start to finish in under 10 minutes. I guess it simply would have been too easy to do this in one go from the beginning.<\/p>\n

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As noted previously, installation of the first Nardi steering wheel concluded disastrously. Not only did I break the horn button, I also botched up the actual spokes of the wheel. Courtesy of Nardi, the wheel came new with a couple light scratches. So of course I attempted to buff it out, which only yielded even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}