First, I'll apologize if this is in the wrong section, but I did not see anything that related to "interior". With that said...
I recently (as in a day ago), purchased a new 2014 Focus ST. I am a big fan of every aspect of the car except for one major piece of equipment on the interior - the steering wheel. The 4-spoke design just seems antiquated and cumbersome in some aspects of driving and I would LOVE to replace it.
So I know the 2015 Focus ST is on its way and based on the changes, they've updated the steering wheel to a very nice 3-spoke design. My question is, and this may be too early of a discussion, will the 2015 Focus ST steering wheel fit on the 2014 Focus ST? I do realize a whole new airbag will be required, and it's probably not the cheapest modification, but I am curious if it can be done. And maybe I will become the guinea pig.
Yes! The little cubby hole, I want it! Tired of having to stick my phone in the cup holder :/ C'mon Ford what were you thinking? It was 2012, everyone has a cellphone!
I like the flat bottom. Why would you have to replace the airbag? Removing our steering wheel is actually pretty easy once I figured out the tabs on the back.
The airbag/steering wheel design is completely different between the two wheels from what I can see in the pictures so I am guessing the whole airbag will have to be replaced as well.
I would like to do this to....so I'm pretty sure it won't work. It's my understanding that even between the 13s the wheels are not interchangeable depending on build dates.
Hmm the pedal placement and shape looks like it may be better on the 15. That is the one annoying thing I have found so far. Maybe I will look into swapping pedals. Hopefully the oem mounting bracket is improved also, because my accelerator pedal has some lateral play in it. Having the pedal arms made out of plastic does not help either.
What do you guys think about our modified steering wheels for current Focus ST?
They are all handmade individually, in couple of variants:
- with gloss black plastic parts
- with carbon-fibre parts
- Stock aluminium finish
They can be stitched with different kinds of leather (perforated, etc) and any colors of threads.
The wheel is smaller in diameter than original, and thicker, thus giving more aggressive/sporty grip
Hi to every-one!
Since FF3 became a "Global Car" for Ford, all parts in this generation Focus are the same
for 100% sure you can check the similarity of the steering mounting
These Steering wheels have same mounting as mk2 Focuses too, so i guess theyll surely fit!
As for prices, its kind of high (since it's calculated for entire steering with airbag)
- with stock aluminium finish
- with gloss black parts
- with carbon-fibre parts
- with/without airbag (we need to check the posibility of using stock one)
- with/without lower buttons
- colors/materials of detailing (leather, threads, etc. )
I'm travelling now, will email you guys when I'm home ( which is far away from the states) or you can pm me.
Basically my requirements are stock aluminium. Standard leather wrap with blue stitching.
Controls are: top right for head unit and to activate voice calls, top left for toggling the screen in front of the steering and bottom left for cruise control
Here is a great question. Besides pricing...Can you get a 2013 style steering wheel to work on a 2014? 2013's from what I gather have the controls on both sides of the bottom half, where as 2014's have the right lower half controls integrated with the top? If you know what I mean then great, if not ill have to clarify.
As far as i know buttons are slightly different if a car is equipped with SYNC, but still you can replace all buttons from original wheel with all wires
OMG I love that steering wheel, I perfect for me would be the steering wheel you have pictured w/ carbon fiber, red stitching and red stripe. Only problem I see is my bottom right buttons have a different orientation.
For sure no one except the engineers at Ford knows if you can put the '15 wheel on a '14 or '13. However, this is a refresh not a new design. And I don't think they did any major changes to the electronics. So in theory a 2015 wheel should be plug and play with a '13 or '14 car because the scales of mass production wouldn't make much sense to change the wiring harness or steering column. Only question would be if the airbag is the same or not.
If I converted to your version will it affect our volume up / down functions as well as bluetooth phone answer / hang up setup?
If not I'd like to my an EOI (Enquiry of interest) on a black polished look plastic with blue stitching steering wheel with shipping to Sydney Metro Australia
That's just the 2014 steering wheel. They moved the phone controls from the side paddles on to the right steering wheel buttons. I have that same wheel. It looks like they based their steering wheel off of the 2013.
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