Description
The steering wheel spacer is a kit that improves cars’ driving position.
Our steering wheel spacer for Mazda 3 brings the steering wheel 5 cm (2″) closer, allowing to move the seat backwards to compensate this gap and gain room for your 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, you needed its own specific steering wheel hub: you had to buy 2 components to solve your problem.
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, 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 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″).
Steering wheel spacer installation instructions for Mazda
Read the installation instructions for the SpacerShop steering wheel spacer
How to install steering wheel spacer on Mazda 3
Discover our tutorial to quickly and easily mount the steering wheel spacer on the Mazda 3. The video was shot on an MX-5 but the procedure is the same.
