Steering Wheel Buttons
I have a 2000 G500. I am looking for replacement steering wheel buttons. I see a single used button for a W463 on Ebay for £65. I also see a used pair on Ebay for £40 for a W210 E Class which look identical to me. Does anyone know if these parts are shared?
Thanks
May I ask why you need to change the buttons?
Interesting the same has happened on mine.
The rubbery coating decays with age. Any second-hand / used buttons will also feel sticky, and you'll soon be back to square-1.
I'd clean the coating off your existing buttons and relacquer with a clear acrylic coat.
...or buy some brand new ones.
The 2000 - 2002 steering wheels were also used on the w202 , and perhaps some otherr vehicles. If the buttons look the same, they are the same.
Thanks. I will check the price of some new ones.
You could try Plastidip; we use it on neodymium magnets to stop them chipping. Amazing results.
Thanks for the tip. I bought a US product called Goo Gone and applied to the buttons. After about 10 minutes I could remove all of the sticky build up. The symbols on the buttons remain unaffected. A Google search shows it is a fairly common problem with Mercedes.
Unrelated but still I have to figure out why I have no audio system appearing when i scroll through the various systems using the buttons. Radio/CD is the original MB one so not sure what is going on there.
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The soft coating on the buttons has begun to break down and has become sticky. I could scrape off the rest of the coating to leave the hard plastic, but would prefer to replace as it would look better and it might also rectify an intermittent issue with the volume button which sometimes works.