Why is the driving position important?
We spend hours per day in our car: driving position is an everyday need.
Some people spend more time behind the steering wheel than on the sofa, so, at least, comfort must match.
The steering wheel spacer is an aid to find the perfect driving position.
When you begin to use it, feels a true relief.
The driving position is instinctive.
We see a car and we like it. Before buying it, we study it in deep: city car or SUV, small car or sports car, we start to imagine it in our daily needs.
Then we evaluate the costs and benefits: the price in relation to the accessories and the performance it has.
We read the reviews… then we choose one and buy it. Whether it’s new or used, not all of us could perform a test drive before buying it, and if we did, it was for 10 minutes with a seller who most of the time never shuts up.
Then we start using it every day and discover its strengths and weaknesses that we hadn’t noticed before. For example: it has a really big trunk, or it has too soft steering, or it has good performance but consumes more than expected.
After this we feel more or less satisfied, and eventually we learn to live with the defects we discover: we have just bought it, we can’t change it right away! And if we keep driving the car for a long time, means that the defects don’t bother us that much.
But there’s one thing that sooner or later we can’t stand anymore: if it’s uncomfortable to sit behind the wheel, sooner or later you end up using something else.
This applies both to the writer’s experience and to what our customers tell us, like sport car owner who use their partner’s car because it’s more comfortable, even if it’s slow.
After a while more, this thought find its way in the mind:
“This car would be perfect, but I driving position is awkward, it’s becoming unbearable and I’m thinking of changing car”
Change car or add adjustment?
The driving position can be adjusted according to 2 things: the seat and the steering wheel. All the seats go back and forth, some have height adjustment too.
The steering wheel is a bit more sacrificed, it wasn’t adjustable at all until a while ago, and sometimes still is in new cars!
Then height adjustment was introduced, which almost everyone now has.
Depth adjustment came later: first on luxury sedans, then also on smaller cars.
It seems that depth adjustment is offered by the car manufacturers after a much more careful analysis of production costs than other accessories. We say this because even today there are cars on which approaching the steering wheel is necessary in order to be used decently by everyone, but depth adjustment is not offered.
An example above all: the Fiat 500 produced from 2007. Whether it’s Abarth or the 1.2, it’s a car we see every day (at least here in Italy). Everyone has it: young, old, tall, short, women… There is no depth adjustment of the steering wheel and if you are tall it is a problem.
Plenty of people simply doesn’t get that the missing depth adjustment is THE problem: they just get used to it, or change the car.
They accept their car is what it is and they resign themselves driving like that.
Missing steering wheel depth adjustment turns into skipping the opportunity to feel how the same car turns into a daily toy: comfortable and usable.
People realize if have chance to drive another car that actually has the depth adjustment of the steering wheel. In that case, going back to the 500 of our example gets terrible and a slow but relentless idea grow up in their mind.
Change the car or find a solution.
The correct driving position is not just one of those things we hear at the driving school (or at safe/sporty driving lessons) and then forget it, but a true need.
Those who try our steering wheel spacer, feels it as a relief since the beginning, like wearing a well suited shoe; all this even before starting the engine! We see it every time we install the spacer in our workshop.
This satisfaction is long lasting, you never get used to.
You keep enjoying for years.
When our customer changes cars, miss our steering wheel spacer, and buy again! We already have lots of customers that write us back after 2-3-5 years asking for the steering wheel spacer for the new car they bought. Even if the depth adjustment is present!
90% cars for which we sell the steering wheel spacer already have depth adjustment.
Take a look over our website: pics always come from customers, and most of the cars already have the steering wheel depth adjustment, but they fit our steering wheel spacer either!
Why?
- Being able to drive comfortably seated in the slightly reclined seat,
- Operate the pedals with your legs extended
- No dashboard hitting/pushing your knees
- And to have the steering wheel where we instinctively feel like we’re used to holding it: it’s a great feeling.
This feeling lead us to make the first steering wheel spacer, and everyone hear about it wants to try one.
The right driving position is comfort, it’s time well spent, it’s enjoying your car. Even an old car, slow, cheap, becomes as pleasant as a violin if well suited on us.
