Steering wheel cleaning

[daveymc29]

The bride and I went to lunch in Livermore yesterday. Pretty hot out there so after we had a look at the 118 year old light bulb, we push started a members car and headed home. Now I was hot and we were on back roads so I pulled off the shirt and now was in T shirt and Levis. When I got out of the car at home I ended up a bit trapped, as usual, getting out and my back rubbed against the steering wheel with a bit of pressure. T shirt looked like I had been scooting around the garage floor in it. I took a paper towel and windex and cleaned the seat, towel was clean, wet it again with the windex and rubbed once over the steering wheel. Wow, is that a nasty black mess. I gather the rubber is rubbing off when I exit the car. So how can I seal it so that quits happening? Going to the Nugget soon so don't want to pull the wheel and paint it. Any suggestions other than a coat of duct tape? I do have a roll of a bright orange.

Thanks in advance!
Dirty back Dave, as Bill W. might say.

 

[Gary WA]

Keep cleaning with windex until it stops taking black off,then wax it. Or some other cleaner,simple green etc.

 

[racingrufus]

I laced a black leather cover on mine, not the wrap around junk from Walmart but a good leather cover that laces to the inside. It was not cheap but looks good, feels good and keeps everything clean.

 

[modelAsteve]

Alcohol- not the drinking kind- the cleaning kind. A few cleanings and the black is off the wheel and on the paper towel. I have tried to wax it or Lemon Pledge it after the good cleaning but now just the alcohol.

 

[Clem Clement]

Wheel stuff is soybean. My wheel came from a roadster in a junk yard. The sun baked all the oil out of the soy. Wear gloves?