Can you change non Amg steering wheel to Amg ?

[Deanw23]

Hi,

I have a 2016 w205 non Amg steering wheel and want to know if I can put an Amg steering wheel on this I already have an AMG air bag as I thought this would fit my current steering wheel , finding a manual AMG steering wheel is hard so next question is can you buy a automatic steering wheel and take the shifters off ?

any help will be very grateful.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Hi,

I have a 2016 w205 non Amg steering wheel and want to know if I can put an Amg steering wheel on this I already have an AMG air bag as I thought this would fit my current steering wheel , finding a manual AMG steering wheel is hard so next question is can you buy a automatic steering wheel and take the shifters off ?

any help will be very grateful.

No idea, sorry I can’t help you regarding whether it’s possible. I am interested though in the difference between an AMG and non-AMG steering wheel - is it much different?

I suspect that Mercedes sell many, many more cars with automatic gearboxes than they do manual gearboxes, and all AMG cars are automatic as far as I’m aware.

 

[Bert_W164]

You could probably hack off the buttons and fill the space in - but instead of butchering it you could always see if there's a way to repurpose the buttons to do something else with a bit of electrical wizardry.

The wiring looms could be an issue, and coding too, I wanted to fit a steering wheel with shift buttons on my CLK350 and found the right type of steering wheel, but Mercedes weren't interested in coding it in (as my car never had the M mode to start with) and said the end results of the buttons would mimic the +/- buttons on the gear selector so I gave up.

Not what you're trying to do, but this thread might give you some insight:

w205 amg steering wheel retrofit possible? - MBWorld.org Forums

C63 AMG (W204) - w205 amg steering wheel retrofit possible? - just curious if anyone know that we can retrofit W205 AMG steering wheel on W204..reprogramming needed? any experience?

mbworld.org

Edit: I too haven't seen AMG manuals and am told apparently they don't do manuals, at least for the recent stuff in the last decade or so, I could be wrong where there are some very limited exceptions, but on the whole it seems this is going to probably be more hassle than it's worth...

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Hi,

I have a 2016 w205 non Amg steering wheel and want to know if I can put an Amg steering wheel on this I already have an AMG air bag as I thought this would fit my current steering wheel , finding a manual AMG steering wheel is hard so next question is can you buy a automatic steering wheel and take the shifters off ?

any help will be very grateful.

Just looked close up and that wheel looks great to me.

Just a thought, Royal Steering Wheels might be able to reshape your original wheel to give it a different feel, perhaps a thicker rim, contoured “thumb grips”, coloured stitching, etc to create a one off.