I plan to do the blackout appearance modifications for the housings, lowering it, some bolt ons, maybe recaros as I mentioned, and I will probably end up putting ST badges on it once it's all done. I'm already running 17X7.5 Sparco Terra in grey which are designed by OZ Rally wheels. Absolutely love them. I do a lot of mountain carving and the Maverick even stock is shockingly great and well behaved in the corners.
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These wheels are a really nice upgrade and I may do this too at some point. My biggest gripe would be that I don't really want that ST logo on there.Hi all!
I have a 22' XL, and recently decided that my interior was long overdue for a upgrade. After doing a little digging I found where someone had swapped a Vivid Racing wheel into a 22' XLT (u/mice2mars on reddit) along with various other brands offering aftermarket wheels. I even saw one from user Vtec87pr1 on here who swapped a Mk8 Fiesta wheel onto his XL. However I found this to be a Fiesta ST-Line wheel and not a true ST wheel.
I searched eBay (the evilBay for you VGG fans) for my options. Which were limited at best. A) OEM Escape/Bronco Sport leather wheel, which just didn't do it for me, thus the reason I kept my stock wheel when I did the ForScan cruise control mod. B) Aftermarket custom made wheel for the Mk8 Fiesta/Puma ST for about $600 which was too much money and too long of a wait. So that left me with option C). Importing a Mk8 Fiesta ST flat bottom wheel from Jastrzebie Zdrój, Poland. All said and done it took 12 days to ship it to my doorstep for a grand total of $374.48. Which for the shipping distance and the product; it was a fantastic deal.
If you plan to do this swap yourself, please note that you will need to swap the OEM harness from the OEM Maverick wheel into the Mk8 Fiesta ST wheel. The European harness is incompatible with USDM airbag and horn connector. Additionally the Euro cruise control and multifunction switch will not work on the Maverick. It must be transferred with the OEM wheel.
(Torque wheel to 35ftlbs per workshop manual)
USDM harness (Left) vs Euro harness (right)
USDM switch (Left) vs Euro switch (right) held in with x4 T7's
Before and After!
It truly transformed the look and feel of the interior and I highly recommend it for anyone considering the swap. I also plan to eventually put in Bronco Sport Heritage edition plaid seats when they become available used or Recaro's depending on look and price. Along with the now famous Escape digi-cluster. That will be for another time though. Thanks for the read!
The “ST-line” wheel eliminates that which I didn’t like personally. However you get the same wheel without the badging
Thanks for posting these! I snatched up that last one for $185! Would’ve preferred the blue stitch one but the price was right.I have looked into this as well, I don't believe the fiesta st was available with a heated wheel but I had found some focus and kuga ST wheels on ebay from europe that were heated that would work with an escape that I was going swap but never did, therefore those would fit a mav as well. I have seen them as low as $150. Here are a couple examples, one has paddles and is heated
Got this mounted up yesterday, shipping took 8 days and only paid $220 w/ shipping, turns out its a heated steering wheel! The connector is on the clock spring but the wiring harness isn’t there, but cool to know I could make it work in the future after adding the harness/button, but no need for a heated wheel in SoCal.
Do we know as of yet if the bronco sport seats will swap ? I was thinking the same thing but not enough out there to pull the trigger on.Hi all!
I have a 22' XL, and recently decided that my interior was long overdue for a upgrade. After doing a little digging I found where someone had swapped a Vivid Racing wheel into a 22' XLT (u/mice2mars on reddit) along with various other brands offering aftermarket wheels. I even saw one from user Vtec87pr1 on here who swapped a Mk8 Fiesta wheel onto his XL. However I found this to be a Fiesta ST-Line wheel and not a true ST wheel.
I searched eBay (the evilBay for you VGG fans) for my options. Which were limited at best. A) OEM Escape/Bronco Sport leather wheel, which just didn't do it for me, thus the reason I kept my stock wheel when I did the ForScan cruise control mod. B) Aftermarket custom made wheel for the Mk8 Fiesta/Puma ST for about $600 which was too much money and too long of a wait. So that left me with option C). Importing a Mk8 Fiesta ST flat bottom wheel from Jastrzebie Zdrój, Poland. All said and done it took 12 days to ship it to my doorstep for a grand total of $374.48. Which for the shipping distance and the product; it was a fantastic deal.
If you plan to do this swap yourself, please note that you will need to swap the OEM harness from the OEM Maverick wheel into the Mk8 Fiesta ST wheel. The European harness is incompatible with USDM airbag and horn connector. Additionally the Euro cruise control and multifunction switch will not work on the Maverick. It must be transferred with the OEM wheel.
(Torque wheel to 35ftlbs per workshop manual)
USDM harness (Left) vs Euro harness (right)
USDM switch (Left) vs Euro switch (right) held in with x4 T7's
Before and After!
It truly transformed the look and feel of the interior and I highly recommend it for anyone considering the swap. I also plan to eventually put in Bronco Sport Heritage edition plaid seats when they become available used or Recaro's depending on look and price. Along with the now famous Escape digi-cluster. That will be for another time though. Thanks for the read!
