The steering wheel spacer is a kit that improves the driving position of passenger cars.
Our steering wheel spacer for BMW Z4 brings the steering wheel closer together to improve the driving position, and is the evolution of the traditional collapsible hub for aftermarket steering wheels.
Read our article on the driving position
Until now, to approach the steering wheel in a vehicle that does not have depth adjustment, one could only remove the standard steering wheel and replace it with an aftermarket one.
The collapsible steering wheel hub was needed to install a goblet steering wheel.
Until the 1980s and early 1990s, this was a good solution, but since steering wheels haveairbags and steering wheel controls, having to give up these accessories to bring the steering wheel closer had become an unacceptable compromise. Eventually what happens is that one changes the car to one with an adjustable steering wheel.
With the Spacershop steering wheel spacer, this is no longer necessary-you can bring the car’s stock steering wheel closer and thus keep the airbag and steering wheel controls active.
Instructions for fitting the spacer to the steering wheel of your BMW Z4
Download the installation instructions for the SpacerShop steering wheel spacer in Italian or English.
The instructions describe the procedure for the BMW Z4 E85/E86 and E89 steering wheels and also for the E46, because the procedure is the same.
Even the product, physically, is the same.
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH
How to install the spacer on the steering wheel.
Discover our tutorial to quickly and easily mount the steering wheel spacer on your BMW Z4 Series
The video was shot on an E46 Series 3, and is good for all the Series 3 and Series Z in production in those years. In fact, the Z4 was built on the platform of the E46.
The spacer is the same as the one supplied for the BMW 3 series E46 of the same years, because the inside of the steering wheel is the same in the two cars.
Since many BMWs from the same years of production share many mechanical details and components that are “hidden” from the driver’s view, we have developed a spacer that can be interchangeable across multiple BMW models.
Watch the video in English
Watch the video in English