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8 Best Steering Wheel Covers

A steering wheel is your primary contact point while driving a vehicle, where you press the flesh mile after mile, so you want it to look and feel great. Luxury and sports cars already offer high-end steering wheels or you could spend hundreds of dollars on a replacement steering wheel for aesthetic and performance reasons, but an easy and affordable upgrade is to simply add a steering wheel cover—which can be done for under $20.

Covers are ideal for protecting your steering wheel from wear and tear, disguising cracks and other damage in older cars, supplying extra grip and comfort, or even providing warming and cooling features to make handling a hot or cold steering wheel more tolerable.

BEST ALL-AROUND

Valleycomfy Leather Steering Wheel Cover Universal 15-inch

VALLEYCOMFY

Luxury look and feel
Provides great grip
Heavier than other covers tested
Could absorb dirt and sweat

Key Specs

Weight: 1.39 lb.
Size: 14.9 x 14.9 x 1.9 in. (medium)
Material: Leather

After slipping the Valleycomfy Leather Steering Wheel Cover onto the tiller of the CR-V, my first thought was “luxury car.” The genuine leather has a high-end look and feel and is a pleasure for the palms. It fit the CR-V’s14.5-inch steering wheel like the proverbial glove but was a bit of a stretch and struggle with the Saturn’s 15-inch helm. The Valleycomfy is a little heavier than other covers I tested but that didn’t affect steering feel. It provided better grip than the other covers and gripped the steering wheel the best, although I wonder whether the leather would absorb dirt and sweat over time.

RUNNER UP

SEG Direct Black and Gray Microfiber Car Steering Wheel Cover Universal 15-inch

SEG DIRECT

Good feel and grip
Understated appearance
Hard to install

Key Specs

Weight: 11.3 oz.
Size: 14.96 x 14.96 x 0.2 in.
Material: Faux leather

Maybe because the SEG Direct Black and Gray Microfiber Universal 15-inch steering wheel cover came from Amazon tightly shrink-wrapped, I had to wrestle with it more than the others to get it to fit on the CR-V’s 14.5-inch wheel. Even with it stretched out a bit, it was a struggle. Slipping this cover onto the 15-inch wheel of the Saturn reminded me of the adage “like socks on a rooster.” But I liked the muted black-and-gray look and its feel was second only to the leather Valleycomfy, although for the same price you can have genuine leather instead of faux leather. It also weighs a bit less, but that didn’t make an appreciable difference.

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Bernadette