steering wheel paint

[MagnusMM]

I want to restore a steering wheel from My '62. In original it was 'white'. But now I don't know how to use a good paint , I mean good number of paint. Cause it is not white and it is not ivory. If any one know how to good restore it?

[dakdak]

There was also a beige colour, but I'm not sure what years VW used that colour.
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[capted]

ACE Hardward sells a Navajo White in a spray can that is 99%

[gt1953]

Do it right and have Koch's do it for you they offer a great warranty also.
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[glutamodo]

All Bug steering wheels were Silver Beige in 1962. WW sells that color in a spray can, but the last can of it I bought from them, the color seemed a bit "off" to me.

-Andy

[Harris]

The silver beige from WW did not match my dash when I did my wheel. I agree with Andy.
Either the dash faded on my '62 or the silver beige the factory used was a different shade.

I had paint mixed to match my dash.

Better comparison before I changed paint.

[MagnusMM]

Thanks for Yours all responses!! Knowledge is a gold!!!

[glutamodo]

The thing is, Harris - it's not supposed to match the dash. Silver Beige IS darker than Pearl White, it's supposed to be a slightly contrasting color, not an exact match.

* But, even so, as the photos below show, at least my can of Wolfsburg West Silver Beige is not quite right *

The Pearl White color that my 62 is painted, my brother (who is a professional car painter and formerly worked in an auto paint shop for many years) mixed the color for my car, which ended up just slightly off from spec. Later on I bought a convertibe decklid and the guy I got it from offered to paint it for me, and his paint was mixed to spec so it's just slightly off from the rest of my car. However that does leave me with one nice piece of paint that is probably "On-Spec" for Pearl White.

With that in mind I just went grabbed something (a putty knife) and painted it with my latest can of WW Silver Beige, took an old turn signal switch that is the original Silver Beige, plus for comparison's sake a 1961 Basalt Gray steering wheel, and laid them out in the sun on my decklid. And then with my best camera took these photos - first one with full captions I also used flash in addition to the sunshine hoping to get the truest color results. The second pic here is without the flash.

You can see the WW SB is "off" from the turn switch, but both of them are definately different from the Pearl white background.

At first I was trying to take a better version of this photo I did last year:

But trying to get it lit for a good color image wasn't working.

-Andy

[Harris]

Andy, I didn't know that. I bought my car 16 years ago from an elderly couple who bought it new. Worn, but nothing changed or missing. 73,000 miles under one ownership. The steering wheel matched the dash and the steering column, so I assumed it was supposed to. Isn't the dash supposed to also be sivler beige in a L-87 pearl white car? Mine was all original and the interior is not an exact match to the car outside, but very close and not in any way close to the silver beige I bought.

I guess I'm not correct, but I like the match I did.

[jettaway03]

not to throw this off topic, but what size socket is needed to remove the steering wheel.

[glutamodo]

[jettaway03]

[64vdub]

Another pearl white bug here. In my car the turn signal switch, steering wheel, etc. are all definitely silver beige, not pearl white.
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