1999 Corolla Steering Wheel Swap

[pill]

Hi Chaps,

Have searched through the forum and havent' seen the anyone to answer if it is possible to change the standard corolla plastic wheel to a celica gen 7 leather wheel.

In pictures, I want to change this kind of wheel

to something of this kind:

Basically, I have bought the steering wheel already and put it on the car, the only thing that thrills me at the moment is attaching the aigbag. I know that some of the corollas had similar steering wheels, the same as on celicas. I have noticed the connection plugs for airbags are identical. I haven't changed the circular-contact thing by the way, leaving the one from corolla in place.

So the question is - whether I should change any of the connections for the celica airbag on my corolla, or just plug it straight away - because the jack would fit into it. I am really afraid that the airbag would blow, and I would need to get another one, which would be very frustrating

I was driving today without the airbag connection, but the airbag malfunction signal drives me a bit crazy.

thanks everyone that can give me any piece of info!

cheers!

[Leeky]

Do the wires colours match?

If not you should get a volt metre on it to test the connections first.

[pill]

fair enough....

how would I understand which one is a plus and which is a minus on the airbag ?

[pill]

OK, I have compared the wires, they are identical. So i have checked the wiring on the enter and exit of this circular connection thing (not sure what's the proper name for it) and, surprisingly there seems to be a short circuit :)

So two wires that should feed the airbag initiator are short circuited due to some of the reasons.....Investigating this issue now and will keep you posted

thanks!

[pill]

Woo-hoo.so just for everybody's record-celica 240 steering wheel fits okay to 1999 corolla with the airbag giving no error.the thing why it was short circuited was a designed anti-fool protection from Toyota engineers.I've sorted that out by putting all back into place and connecting the airbag. The srs light went on for about 6-7 seconds and then turned off. Now my e11 has +20bhp LOL

[ae111sr]

Thanks for posting up your results. That's a very useful piece of info.