How does your steering wheel leather looks like after years of use?

 

After 4 years, I have noticed slight abrasion on the 9 o'clock where my left hand is.

 

Being the steering wheel, this must be the best piece of leather they have put in the car, and I do treat the leather with some conditioners occasionally.

 

 

 

Mine is trashed, hardly any colour left around the top and between the 4 and 6 o’clock positions the leather is wearing very thin indeed. My car has now done 87k miles. Having it retrimmed is on my list of things to do, the one I had retrimmed for my Mercedes is a beauty to behold. The Citigo has the same steering wheel and it’s still as immaculate as day 1 18 months and 15k miles in. The best steering wheel I have ever had on a car was the one on my Volvo. Lovely bit of kit and immaculate despite the mileage

Mine's holding up pretty well. Approaching 5 years and 45k and no obvious marks or wear spots on it.

 

 

Mine came with the super sport one and while the leather is holding up, the rupersed plastic is doing less well. Spoke to the garage who marked it down as normal wear and tear.

Mine is holding up - 5 years, 92k miles, a bit shiny in main wear/hold places but overall decent quality part of the car.

I should clarify that my car was leased to a construction company from new, only the one driver, but he worked for a national building firm. Could explain the wear and tear to the mats, steering wheel and all the dust and chippings I got out of it even though it was supplied valeted...

I have changed my SW in my vRS for the flat bottom version which was brand new & only been on for a year, I did however notice the other day that the top half of the SW (11-1 o'clock) the full leather bit looked a bit grubby & I always use hand sanitizer before touching my SW (OCD)   as I don't like touching my SW with grubby dirty hands so gave it a good clean up with auto finesse leather cleaner & conditioner (hide) & looks perfect again, the rest of my SW is fine with no signs of any wear.

Once upon a time I worked for a large car manufacturer in Derby, while there I worked in many different areas. One shift I was down by final inspection and a guy from the seat manufacturer was there checking seats. While chatting he informed me that the hardest wearing leather was in fact man made 'pleather' as they called it. Natural leather is very soft and doesn't wear too well, so it's use on car seats is limited to the least wearing areas such as the seat base and back. The bolsters are pleather, I never asked him about the steering wheel, but I have my suspicion that it may be pleather too. 

It is. The real leather one in my Merc is nothing like the one in the Skoda. I was warned about wear and tear by the trimmer but because it’s such a low use car I’m not that fussed (1-2k miles a year if that).