Range Rover Steering Wheel

Taesmc · January 28, 2010

I really like the steering wheel that's on the 2010 Range Rover, and I'm wondering if it will fit a chevy tahoe. Any ideas?

Nytemare · January 28, 2010

I really like the steering wheel that's on the 2010 Range Rover, and I'm wondering if it will fit a chevy tahoe. Any ideas?

Fit...sure....work with your airbag system etc...not a chance.

grose67 · January 28, 2010

It's not like the air bag is a high usage item....

Nytemare · January 28, 2010

It's not like the air bag is a high usage item....

Huge safety item though...

I know if its not working in most parts of Canada you will fail your annual inspection....if the province has one.

Taesmc · January 28, 2010

Can you give me a rough idea of why not and what's involved?

I'm assuming the sensors on the Tahoe speak a "different language" than what the RR steering wheel understands? If that's the problem, can I just gut the electronics out of the RR wheel and replace them with the electronics from the Tahoe? Does accessing the electronics involve opening or damaging the air bag? And finally, (I myself am not used to asking this many questions, please bear with me) are airbags reusable, or once deployed, you have to change the steering wheel altogether?

Nytemare · January 29, 2010

Can you give me a rough idea of why not and what's involved?

I'm assuming the sensors on the Tahoe speak a "different language" than what the RR steering wheel understands? If that's the problem, can I just gut the electronics out of the RR wheel and replace them with the electronics from the Tahoe? Does accessing the electronics involve opening or damaging the air bag? And finally, (I myself am not used to asking this many questions, please bear with me) are airbags reusable, or once deployed, you have to change the steering wheel altogether?

Air bags are not reusable.

Yeah they "speak a different language"...you cannot just take a bag out of another vehicle and drop in, and expect it to work...also, all the electronics involved with the bag are in the BCM, and in the airbag enclosure. You would have to swap all the bags over to RR bags, than run a stand alone BCM from a rover to control those bags...problem here is that the airbags would be missing and throw a code on the BCM, and light the airbag light on the cluster. Which in most places will fail you on a safety inspection.

If....however....you don't have to have the bag system working for an annual inspection...have at 'er....I would love to be rid of the whole damn system...usually the most expensive part of an accident is the replacement of the airbag system.