e30 steering wheels fitment

Post Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:36 pm

Are all e30's have the same steering wheel fitment, or there were different ones regardless a made year?

thank you

Post Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:38 pm

All euro ones are the same, fine spline.
American wheels are different, they have Airbags.

Post Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:16 pm

Rav335uk wrote:All euro ones are the same, fine spline.
American wheels are different, they have Airbags.

thanks rav, I had an issue about wheel I bought on ebay, I was sure that the fitment was the same on all E30's but the guy was trying to convince me that it was different on pre 1988 models and then it changed, he described item as OEM E30 325i, but it would not fit my car

Post Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:50 pm

Pic of the rear of the wheel??
Should be fine splined.

Link to the ebay add.?

Post Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:52 am

fortunately I sold the wheel for £40 (I bought it for 41 + postage)
there was no back side of it on the pictures and I did not take the picture myself.
I have a problem with the seller now as he complained to ebay that I threatened him with negative feedback, so ebay send me email saying that they will close my account

that's the ebay advert:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110840103238? ... 1423.l2649

now I think that the wheel was rare it was probably worth more

Post Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:05 pm

Tell Ebay to fook off, the seller was lying in his reply to the question thats diplayed at the bottom of the advert, he states its a 370mm and in the pic its clearl not!!

Post Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:11 pm

that could be E28 fitment, they are different

Post Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:22 pm

i thought e28 were the same ?

I fitted an e28 SE steering wheel to an e30 once

Post Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:28 pm

The fact is the seeller lied in his answer, and now has reprted the op to ebay

Post Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:21 pm

Rav335uk wrote:Tell Ebay to fook off

that's exactly what I did

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the story a bit complicated, I only contacted the guy after about a month, after I bought it. I did not have a chance to check the item as was out of the country and when I found out that it's not e30 fitment, I thought that the seller will be reasonable, and genuinely not knowing what he is selling would apologise at least so before leaving him feedback I contacted him and hoped that he would offer postage refund

(I was being cheeky here) in my defence I have to say that I did not ask for any refunds. Instead he complained to eBay about me

. I don't have a problem with that. What comes around goes around

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by the way the guy who bought the wheel has e28 m5.