I've been searching for two years for someone who makes Jag-logo'd driving gloves. A small matter, yes, but I can't imagine Jaguar or one of its suppliers does not produce and market quality driving gloves bearing the marque. Any ideas?

 

Maybe you've found a new market to exploit!

 

Maybe not much demand for them now we've moved away from slippery wooden steering wheels?

 

You're right. I have a thin slippery wooden wheel on the E Type and use driving gloves for that all the time, but not on the F

 

I bought a set of hand made driving gloves on Etsy a few years back from Romania. Wondering if you could get someone to stich the logo on. Depending on what you want you can buy custom patches on Etsy and have someone sew them on. The challenge will be to get a professionally done look. If you have an example of another brand you like that would likely help. Many stictching machines have computer software that does a good job. Need to find the right combo of supplier or but two together.

 

Hi all I drive a 2016 s and I find the leather steering wheel slippery. I wear dents leather gloves in the fall/winter and a cotton crochet back driving glove in the spring/summer. A hold over from my 63 e type coupe. For me I find wearing gloves gives me extra control and a added bonus of protecting the steering wheel. Cheers Frank

 

I'm not sure why you would want Jaguar branded gloves, but THESE are my favorite pair of driving gloves, the stringbacks from Autodromo.

 

I just use my bicycling gloves...https://supacaz.com/product/supag-lo...ves-twisted-2/ These are summer cycling gloves, very light weight, form fitting, and have a leather-like palm with silicon grippy fingertips.. My pair in the car is black. They are awesome as my palms sweat a bit and I know that would transfer to the steering wheel and cause deterioration after a while. The index finger tip and thumb have thread sewn into it so you can use it on your touchscreen/phone.

The red parts are silicon which are slightly tacky the rest of the palm is like a leather suede which absorbs the sweat. My color glove is black, but just showing this as the example.

 

hi, same interior and steering wheel… and same conclusion: slippery impression, so gloves are clearly really adding something useful to the driving experience ! Unless someone has found something to reduce the slippery of the leather which appear to be very rigid on the wheel? Have a great wk, Pierre-Emmanuel

 

We find the grip to be fine... of course, everyone has different expectations.

What helps a great deal IMO, is regular cleaning (soap & water) then an application of leather conditioner. <--- Hide food or saddle soap.

"While you are in there" soften that outer bolster on the seat, too.

 

Yep, am doing that for sure - but certainly previous owners were less careful, so that even cleaning/conditioning has not changed drastically the grip!

 

I notice that "slippery" wheel isn't heated - maybe that makes a difference. I need my gloves for when I'm not holding the wheel!

 

If you can spend the money, Leatherique does a fine job rejuvenating leather. Don't know if it would result in more grip.

Home Page | Leatherique Restoration Preservation LTD

Take a look at the DIY instructions on the right side of the home page. Be aware that many products require time for absorption...

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Suggest that if you try a leather rejuvenator or even just the saddle soap, you apply it after parking the car for the day. Wipe lightly before driving again.
Give it several applications over a few weeks.
See if that brings the texture back.

Good Luck!

 

So do you all spread your own gray Poupon or do you ask Jeeves to do it? Just wondering? Lol.

 

Good question, Peasant.

WE drive the F-Type!
Jeeves only attends to the trips in the limo...

 

I can remember when I was a kid and would see someone in a sports car. That always got my attention. Many of them were in convertibles like XK 120's, 140's, 150's, E Types, MG's, or Austin Healeys and the de rigueur attire was always a tweed cap and driving gloves. The cap made sense but it took a while for me to figure out that those skinny plastic or wooden steering wheels and slippery gear shift knobs would be better handled with some type of gloves. And the gloves were usually the type with open backs. If I had a classic convertible sports car I'd have to buy a set, just because.

 

Don't forget the goggles!

 

Don't laugh,

When we owned our 1957 Morgan, we carried a set along with the gloves. Didn't ever fit the side screens...

 

And the scarf!

 

I had a couple Big Healey 3000s ('61 & '65) and E-types ('64 & '71) and the gloves were part of the image a well as the need with those big-*** (and slippery) Nardi steering wheels. I really preferred the open back and cut-off fingers for comfort because black leather could get pretty warm on a long, open-top drive in the summer sun. Enjoyed those days and automobiles but my F-type is a much more civilized vehical and brings a smile to my 76 year old face everytime I hear the snap, crackle and pop.