Recommendations for crumbling steering wheel?

Hi all,

This is my first time posting a thread here so hopefully I'm on the right subforum, but I've been looking to fix or replace my steering wheel for some time now. I have a 2010 Prius III, which unfortunately has the original rubber/urethane steering wheel on it that came with the car. The buttons and everything else is in great shape, but the wheel itself has begun crumbling and peeling - I hate it.

I've explored different steering wheel covers, but they never fit quite right. I've also tried the ones you can stitch on, but I have never been happy with the results (skill issue). I tried to purchase an "OEM" leather steering wheel from a higher trim model from eBay and got burned (the wheel that arrived was not leather, it was coated in some weird sort of plastic resin not at all like what I saw in the listing photos; trying to return it for a refund right now). Having really bad luck with this so far. Anyway, I'm wondering if anybody knows of a place where I could source an actual original replacement steering wheel, preferably leather, that I can transfer my airbag, buttons, electronics etc. onto, since that type of job is more in my wheelhouse than something requiring sewing.

If you have or know of an original leather steering wheel I could use, I'd happily buy it.

Would very much appreciate any advice on this.

 

Thank y’all for the info, now I’m thinking I may see if my local upholstery shop would be willing to wrap my existing wheel with some sort of thin cover.

But if I don’t have much luck with that I might just try getting another leather one secondhand, since I was able to get a refund for the faulty wheel I originally ordered.

 

Update: I ended up finding a SofTex steering wheel from the Prius V on eBay in the US and installed it yesterday - super happy with the results! If you can find a good used example from the Prius V, you can swap over the buttons, cruise control stalk, and airbag from your old wheel onto the donor, and everything fits and works perfect.