Black steering wheel controls. Which ones???
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Black steering wheel controls. Which ones??? I am moving to a black interior on my Trans Am. I don't want to have a nice new black steering wheel with these ugly gray controls. What cars came with the black ones? Are the electronics different, or are they universal between years?
use some from a 98-02 camaro. you have to open them up and take the blue bulb covers
off the camaro ones and slip the red bulb covers from the gray ones to make the black ones light up red. It looks sick at night
off the camaro ones and slip the red bulb covers from the gray ones to make the black ones light up red. It looks sick at night
If you have a grey leather steering wheel, the black Camaro controls may not fit inside the slot in the wheel for the buttons. I have a '99 with a gray leather wheel and an '01 Camaro parts car with a black leather wheel and the Camaro buttons are significantly deeper than the Bird buttons.
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As I am looking further into it, it looks like the steering wheel from the 98-99 is not compatible with the 00-02 cars. Maybe the 00-02 steering is different? Anyone know for sure?
Only for Camaro wheels, and possibly the coloring of the leather/plastic on the Bird wheels. Firebirds had the same design steering wheels from 95 and up.
I replaced mine with black camaro ones in my trans am a while back when one of the switches went out. The only thing different I remember is something with the connectors, but i got it to work.
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Rather than trying to make Camaro switches work, why not use early Firebird switches? The earlier poster is correct, Firebirds used the same design from 95 through 02. But they weren't all the same color. Switches up to mid-99 were "graphite" (dark charcoal gray) and then they changed to light gray for the rest of the years. The graphite color is the same as the dash - close enough to black that you can hardly tell unless the two are next to each other. That should look like a match to your steering wheel while still providing enough of a difference in color that the switches don't "disappear".
