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Clarity leather steering wheel upgrade

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For the 2019 Clarity, there was not really any critical features I missed in the Touring trim over the Base trim: Remote conditioning: actually this is available in the base trim! Navigation: CarPlay and Android Auto renders this moot Leather seats: The seats are partially leather trimmed so this didn't make a huge difference for our family The last feature was a leather heated steering wheel.  I thought I wouldn't miss this but coming from a car that had this feature, the urethane steering wheel was not tolerable.  While the heating component seemed like too much of a DIY project, I went ahead and replaced the stock steering wheel with a leather steering wheel (from the 10th gen civic:  78501-TBA-A21ZA will have black stitching and 78501-TBA-A21ZD will have red stitching ). Thanks to chris5168 on insideevsforum.com for leading the way! Here is the step by step: 0. Unplug the battery if you are worried about the airbag removal.  Make sure you unplug the negative