Description
The steering wheel spacer is a kit that improves the driving position, giving a surprising effect on driving pleasure.
Our steering wheel spacer for Alfa Romeo Giulia brings the OEM steering wheel 2″ (5 cm) closer to the driver, allowing to move the seat backwards furthermore. This leads to more room for the legs, better modulation on pedals while holding the steering wheel naturally, without overstretched arms.
Read our article about the driving position
Until now, to bring closer to the driver the steering wheel of a vehicle that does not have depth adjustment, you could only remove the OEM steering wheel and replace it with an aftermarket one, and a collapsible steering wheel hub was needed to install the aftermarket steering wheel.
Until the 1980s and early 1990s, this was a good solution, but since steering wheels have airbags and steering wheel controls, having to give up these accessories to bring the steering wheel closer had become an unacceptable compromise.
This turns that sooner or later, the owner changes the car with one equipped with fully adjustable steering wheel from factory. With the Spacershop steering wheel spacer, this is no longer necessary: you can bring the car’s OEM steering wheel closer and thus keep the airbag and steering wheel controls active.
The assembly of the spacer is simple and reversible, in case you want to remove it from the car everything goes back to the way it was before.
Why add a spacer if the car already have the depth adjustment?
Giulietta does already have the depth adjustment on the steering wheel from factory. So, why add a spacer to bring the spacer closer furthermore?
This is a common and legit question. And it is something that surprised even us manufacturers: we invented the spacer for a car without that option, because we were coming from a car WITH it and we were MISSING it. If our car was already equipped with the depth adjustment steering column, maybe our invention would have never seen the sunlight.
The answer is that the steering wheel spacer is not just a comfort luxury device which you can renounce to, but it’s a complete game changer in driving pleasure, in a way that it is even a bit difficult to tell if you don’t try it.
After a couple of years running this activity, the 90% of our steering wheel spacers is destinated to cars ALREADY EQUIPPED with the depth adjustment of the steering wheel because lots of people feels it’s not enough despite not being extra tall, and wants to add those magic 5 cm (2″).
Installation instructions for the spacer to bring the steering wheel closer to the Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio
The assembly is simple and reversible, in case you want to disassemble from the car everything goes back to the way it was before.
Download the SpacerShop steering wheel spacer installation instructions in Italian or English.
The instructions describe the procedure for Fiat and Alfa Romeo group cars because they share many components, including the inside of the steering wheel, so the procedure is the same.
DOWNLOAD THE ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS
Watch video tutorial on an Alfa Romeo Giulietta. The procedure for Alfa Giulia is the same.
