Thank you for reply but $500 US is not the price I'm willing to pay for it when you can buy aftermarket wheel for $200 max on ebay.
Another problem I'm not in US And even if I start all this story I'm staiyng without car for 4-6 weeks and it's not acceptable.

 

Will a Airbag from a 95-97 LS400 fit on a 99' LS400 steering wheel?

 

I don't believe so. I think the steering wheel is different.

 

anyone know a source for a new wheel? id love to have one with the wood trim instead of leather all the way around.. but it would have to accept my stock airbag.. ideas guys?

 

Hey man,

I actually looked into doing this, and its very possible. There is acompany called American Stitches. They actually did a group buy on ClubLexus, it was mostly with the GS guys. I think the whole process costs around $350, atleast thats what it cost back then. THey do afull rewrap with wood.

They had a loaner steering wheel which they would send you, charge you like a $1000 deposit, then you sent yours in, and three weeks later you got your wheel back.

I know ther eare abunch of threads on the forum. Search for American Stitches on this forum, as well as on google, and give them a call.

I'm thinking about getting this done later too, but I still have to decide wether I'm going to keep this car or not.

 

Dude, that's expensive!

 

Expensive.. but well worth it. have you driven a car that has a real wood steering wheel? Ah.. its so nice to hold.

 

Is there a factory woodgrain steering wheel that fits the 1996 LS400? It seems to me that they only came leather wrapped until 1998+. Are newer model year steering wheels compatible? Any suggestions?

 

lexus does actually have an optional wood steering wheel for our years. it just cost 1k if you wanna put down that much.

 

I think this has been covered B4 - as I recall the airbag connections are different. There are vendors like leatherseats.com that offer them for around $600 tho.

 

1998 - 00 the wood is not the same color and the wood grain is a little different.