Quote Originally Posted by Not a real meme View Post
So i've just gave it a much better cleaning and took off the plastics surrounding the wires on the steering wheel and sprayed it and saw the copper contacts. After a good spray I saw a whole lot of brown and black substance exactly near the coppers, need less to say it looked like I was cleaning a dirty motorcycle chain. After this it looks promising.
Once you get those contacts back down to shiny brass/copper -- dry-buff with a green Scotch-Brite pad if needed to remove tarnish -- I'd coat them in a good electrical grease like DeoxIT L260D -- better yet, you can order a free sample tube of it here.