Has anyone else experienced this situation?

[WILDHOBO]

I'm worse on interiors than my wife -since she retired, she's cut waaay back on that stuff. Me - I have naturally oily skin, I have to wash my hair daily, and I'm hard on cotton fabrics. Of course, I do some shop work, need to run in to town, hop in my JT and go -

I hope people see your post on this - as it is truly a thing.
Steering wheels, arm rests and so on - I'm hard on them. This example is only 27,000 miles -

And it drives me crazy when I feel an imperfection in steering wheels. I’ve been thinking about buying a new wheel for a while now, so I can swap it in when this one gets bad.

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[ShadowsPapa]

And it drives me crazy when I feel an imperfection in steering wheels. I’ve been thinking about buying a new wheel for a while now, so I can swap it in when this one gets bad.

Yeah, that is why i traded vehicles.
No, just kidding, but for sure - it bugs me on a newer vehicle. I have to accept it on my 73 - there ARE NO new wheels for those.
My 82 has a NOS (new, old stock) leather steering wheel on it, but it was stored improperly for years so there's a dent in the leather on one of the spokes. It drives me nuts to see that there on an otherwise perfect, rare, one of a kind, wheel.

 

[Exceed Fabrication]

I'll PAY for this -
My wife has a handicap that means she can't reach over to the center mounted window switches and easily use them. Her right arm has no working elbow, and her right hand is small, 3 fingers that have limited use and only inches from what would be her right elbow.
She can push a switch with a finger knuckle on her right hand by leaning way over to reach them, but pulling up, she can't get a finger under the switch to raise it up to close the windows. So for all practical purposes - Jeep JL and JT windows are totally inoperable for her from the driver's seat. It's the one reason she swore she'd never own one - but then she saw a purple (reign) JLU and that was that.

I have an idea to extend the window switches so that they are more of a lever sticking out - so she could pull up or push down, but it would require fabrication.
I bought a used switch array from ebay, came from a low mileage used Jeep, that could be used to test (although I hate to mess with the switches as the rubber on this is near perfect! I might try to find some trashed switches instead)

I have drawings and made an example out of aluminum strip that is really close and could actually work, but I'm no fabricator and my ET (essential tremor) has left me unable to continue the project.

I can see it being useful for others with handicaps, or similar "restrictions to movement", birth defects and so on. Not a huge market and I get that, so that's why I'm not looking for "free"......... If I was still working for Voc Rehab, I could possibly get some money to develop such a thing - adaptive equipment - but cuts and budgets means that guy was let go and they no longer deal with adaptive equipment for the handicapped.

Don't know if this makes sense or not, and it would only work for the TOP row, the front windows (that's all she cares about anyway)
but.............
push the switch as normal on the lower part - window goes down
Push on the added part, window goes up.
Not sure if it could actually work, but messing around with the spare switches on my bench gave me hope.
She especially can't pull up/out on the normal switch and hold it there, so I installed one of those 3W or whoever they are, auto-up switch modules. It helps, but she still has a problem just lifting up on the switch at all.

Sorry to hijack your thread!! But - it's sort of relayed LOL

I will PM you.

 

[Schaft]

Wow, they would match all the red trim stuff in my Rubicon. Interesting.

I’ve had them for two years now, and they match the Rubicon trim perfectly.

 

[RubiNewbCB]

Mill some bad ass billet replacements?

CMM could do it!

 

[David Foerste]

Hey guys,

I'm Kelvin. My Jeep has recently developed a small issue—the window switch button is damaged (see the picture below). I tried searching on this forum, but it seems no one has discussed it. Or I missed anything? It still works. What would you do in this situation? please let me know. Thanks!

There is another option. This replaces the entire switch button, but only comes in black.

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