Wheel In Motion

If at first you don’t find the correct steering wheel… keep on trying!

 

- John Lakey

1985 OPEL MONZA GSE 3.6 IRMSCHER

The last report detailed the Monza’s re-trimmed ‘FB’ Recaros, which now finally fit me. However, that meant that the standard steering wheel was too big and too far away. Simple, I thought – I’ll buy a steering wheel boss and fit an aftermarket wheel – I even had a red one on my garage wall that would do, in the short term at least. A trawl of German eBay revealed a number of Opel Monza steering wheel bosses for the standard Momo fitment that my spare steering wheel has. I ordered one for £46 plus postage and despatched it straight to Graham Booty’s workshop. Sorted.

He phoned a few days later. ‘Wheel boss doesn’t fit. What do you want me to do?’ ‘Erm, make it fit?’ I said. ‘That isn’t an option,’ he replied. ‘It’s very wrong.’ Back to the internet.

I put a post on the ever helpful Autotransformer club forum and discovered that there are two Monza boss part numbers. So, thinking it was logical, I bought the other one. It was just over £60 this time and again came from Germany. You can guess the call: ‘Doesn’t fit either. It has the same splines as the previous one, but the horn hole is in a different place.’