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How bringing the steering wheel closer improves the driving position?
This type of need is usually felt by drivers in cars without telescopic adjustment of the steering wheel position, or people with long legs: in order to drive in a decent way, we are used to calibrate the driving position holding the steering wheel as we are most comfortable to, and adapt the legs position subsequently. But if the steering wheel distance from the dashboard can’t be adjusted, legs are forced to stay in reduced room, hitting the dahsboard and leading to pains to knees, ankles, hips, lumbar back… to avoid all this, the seat has to be slided a couple of cm (or inches) backwards.
Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem because the steering wheel becomes too far, and needs to be hold with over extended arms, in a very unnatural position which usually leads to neck and shoulder pains.
This problem, depending on the body structure of the driver and his/her feeling, can be VERY annoying, making people thinking about change the car.
The steering wheel spacer for Lexus RX brings the steering wheel 5 cm (2″) closer to the driver, allowing to move the seat backwards and gain room for the legs, while still holding the steering wheel in a natural way, without over-extended arms. This is a godsend boost for the driving pleasure.
Read our article on the driving position
In past, to bring the steering wheel closer to the driver in a vehicle that does not have depth adjustment from factory, you could only remove the OEM steering wheel and replace it with an aftermarket one with different offset.
To install an aftermarket steering wheel, its own specific steering wheel hub was needed, so 2 components had to be purchased to solve the problem.
Until the 1980s and early 1990s, this was a good solution, but since steering wheels have airbags and steering wheel controls, give up with these accessories to bring the steering wheel closer had become an unacceptable compromise, which could even lead the owner of the car to change it with another already equipped with telescopic adjustable steering wheel.
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.
Why add a spacer if the car already have the depth adjustment?
Many cars 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 simple: for many people the available telescopic adjustment is just not enough. Plus, 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. With the steering wheel spacer, your driving position turns into the setup used by racing drivers, which MUST be suit on the drivers’ body as much as possible.
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″).
Steering wheel spacer installation instructions for Lexus RX.
Read the installation instructions for the SpacerShop steering wheel spacer. The instructions describes the procedure on a Toyota GT 86, and they are valid for the Lexus RX too, because they both belongs to Toyota and share the same steering wheel spacer.
How to install the steering wheel spacer on your Lexus RX
Discover our tutorial to quickly and easily mount the spacer on the steering wheel of your RX Video assembly example. The car in the video is not the same, but the procedure and the steering wheel spacer are.
