We spend hours per day in our car, driving position is an everyday need.

The steering wheel spacer is an aid to find the perfect driving position.

When you need it, feels a true liberation.

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 also look at the brand, the reviews… at the end 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.

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.

We are satisfied, some more or less, 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’ve had the car for a long time, it also 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:

  • Sport car owner who use their partner’s car because it’s more comfortable, even if it’s a nail.
  • People who say “for my holidays I had to use the other car because it has more trunk, but how uncomfortable it was to drive!”.
  • “This car would be perfect, but I have to drive with the seat all the way forward because the steering wheel doesn’t get close, it’s becoming unbearable and I’m thinking of changing car”

The driving position can be adjusted according to 2 things: the seat and the steering wheel. All the seats go back and forth, some even have height adjustment.

The steering wheel is a bit more sacrificed, it wasn’t adjustable at all not a long time ago. and sometimes still!

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.

They think that the 500 is a small car so it is normal that it can be a bit uncomfortable and they resign themselves driving like thet.

Steering wheel depth adjustment unavailability turns into missing  the opportunity to experience how the same car changes with all the settings to make it comfortable and usable.

They realize if they happen 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.

We mentioned the 500 because we are Italian and it is the first car that comes to mind, but there are many others that have this problem.

Mind you, the 500 is an excellent car: it has a line that has never aged since 2007, the interior is still beautiful today, it is reliable and functional. As are Renaults, Volkswagens, Toyotas and even Porsches for which we make the steering wheel spacer.

But there are details, that make the difference, designed by manufacturers, more on their costs than by identifying with users.

We all have now discovered that 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 liberation since the beginning, like getting rid of a stone in the shoe; all this even before starting the engine! We see it every time we install the spacer in our workshop.

This fun is kept enjoyed over time.

And 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 on 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
  • Don’t bang against the dashboard with 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, which goes slowly, cheaply, becomes as pleasant as a violin if we feel that it has the right driving position.