How Agressive can I get with a scrub Ninja - Best Advice for Steering Wheels

[chefwong]

I have a clean steering wheel - fairly well maintained from new . It's just not matte black but it's a satin black---PATINA......
I suppose hand oils are in-evitable even after cleaning.
After a stronger cleaner, it does feel more -matte- and does look a bit more flat black but that only seems to last for a hot minute

Primarily use Interior Cleaner on it and have tried LM Strong Cleaner and it didn't appear to make that much of a difference.....
Maybe it is as good as it will get.....and I did use my Scrub Ninja once - light pass as in my mind, I am very minu-tia-ely micro-abrading it.
Maybe I'm leaning too much on the less aggressive side too much

Does anyone have a special technique to get a steering wheel back to bone stock clean.....
As I get older, I'm a bit more conscientious about how I spend things, but I might do my usual route of buying a brand new one and flipping the slightly used forsale.
Ha, it's the OCD

 

[DFB]

I have a clean steering wheel - fairly well maintained from new . It's just not matte black but it's a satin black---PATINA......
I suppose hand oils are in-evitable even after cleaning.
After a stronger cleaner, it does feel more -matte- and does look a bit more flat black but that only seems to last for a hot minute

Primarily use Interior Cleaner on it and have tried LM Strong Cleaner and it didn't appear to make that much of a difference.....
Maybe it is as good as it will get.....and I did use my Scrub Ninja once - light pass as in my mind, I am very minu-tia-ely micro-abrading it.
Maybe I'm leaning too much on the less aggressive side too much

Does anyone have a special technique to get a steering wheel back to bone stock clean.....
As I get older, I'm a bit more conscientious about how I spend things, but I might do my usual route of buying a brand new one and flipping the slightly used forsale.
Ha, it's the OCD

Are you a smoker?

My father's steering wheel is permanently glossy, it's been abraded over several years and the nicotine from his hands has caused a sticky residue. Over the years, I've tried multiple different products and tools, from a mild alkaline interior cleaner, strong leather cleaner from ColourLock, even APC, teamed with either a scrub pad, medium stiffness leather brush or the TRC VLB. None have removed that sticky/shiny appearance. In fact, I'm now at the point where I'm removing the black dye. Do I continue hammering down on it, removing more and more dye, in turn make it look worse and worse? Or just mildly clean it and move on?

So yes, you can go too far.

 

[Tasmania]

Hand oils sweat etc, just get a really nice pair of driving cloves.