MSport Steering wheel question for the ‘doer-uppers’…

[BavarianZHP]

What actually makes it a m sport steering wheel compared to standard?

Standard has silver trim. Less padding/thickness. M-sport is thicker and matte black trim with an "M" logo on the bottom spoke. Finally M steering wheels have tri-color stitching and Nappa leather. Maybe they are all Nappa. I'm not 100% sure though.

[Barty]

What actually makes it a m sport steering wheel compared to standard?

Standard has silver trim. Less padding/thickness. M-sport is thicker and matte black trim with an "M" logo on the bottom spoke. Finally M steering wheels have tri-color stitching and Nappa leather. Maybe they are all Nappa. I'm not 100% sure though.

Both the M and M-sport use nappa leather, as do most modern BMW steering wheels (since roughly 2000).

The standard steering wheel might actually be fake leather, I’m not entirely sure. While cleaning it up thoroughly I never got it quite to the same level of softness and smoothness you’d expect from the real deal. Anyone know more about this?

[Robster68]

On my particular 53 plate 3.0i vin decoder I have,
S255A sports leather steering wheel.
Which if you look at pre facelift 3.0 options list photo seems to be standard fitment.
Not so on later models non 3.0 l which you pay extra for.Msport wheel is standard on sport si models.
As far as I can see.