Adjusting the angle steering wheel / steering column

[Kabooooom]

Hi guys


I just bought a new VN commodore to replace my old one (blown engine + 1000 other things wrong with it). Took it for a test drive, handled well, good acceleration, good breaks, so I bought it and have a car again


When I got home I tried putting the seat down (up/down, not lean back) to get comfortable AND still see the speedo through the steering wheel. Couldn't. Raised and lowered the chair, not luck, scratched my head jumped in the old vn just to make sure I'm not going crazy and I'm sure the steering wheel / column is tilted lower in my new car. I had a look at where the steering column goes into the dash and you can see a gap in the new, but not in the old, so the whole steering column is angled lowered.

I'll post some photos tomorrow, too dark atm to get anything sensible.

My dad (being shorter) jumped it in and could see fine, the guy I bought it off was a bit on the shorter size as well, I'm 6ft so

Now is that angle easily adjustable ? atm it looks a bit of a dogey job cause the trim has a gap in it, so I'm starting to get concerned. I've got a gregory's manual for it for the v8 (got the v6 but its close enough) and I'm gonna have a hunt through it.


Anyone here had similar issues / raised lowered their steering column before?

[Vt-Brrrlina]

id be pretty sure its just a bolt either side on a bracket holding it in place.... put some washers in there to space it down a bit and get ur angle.... that would be my guess...

[Dum*P*ster]

good q, but i dont think vn-vp's have Steering wheel adjustment?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

So you need to lift the wheel up I'm guessing? See if the bolts holding the bracket have come loose causing the column to hang lower.