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Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover

Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Make Over Ice Cream Truck
Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Make Over Ice Cream Truck

Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover. What kids doesn’t love icecream, and what kids doesn’t love the idea of driving thier own car! Put those two ideas together and you have the Icecream Cozy Coupe Truck. For this Cozy Coupe Redo I used a Princess model of the Cozy Coupe II, so I didn’t have to paint it.

Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover: Find a Second Hand Coupe

The best place to find them are at thrift stores, Craigslist, Kijiji, or on a Facebook Group like Little Tikes Toys & Furniture Online Retail Shoppe.  I have found some by dumpsters, and on the curb as well.

An Icecream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover: Remove the Old Decal, and Throughly Wash it.

An Icecream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover: Remove the Old Decal, and Throughly Wash it.
An Icecream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover: Remove the Old Decal, and Throughly Wash it.

Removing the old decals is a bit of work, but well worth the effort. I have a more detailed instructions on removing decals here. Once the old ones are going you can do so much to change the car. You can repaint it, or add new decals. I sell new decals for most of the Little Tikes foot to floor cars on Ebay, and Etsy. For this particular Cozy Coupe Makeover, I used my set here. But I have lots of other styles that would look nice on this cozy coupe without having to repaint it.

Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover : Apply the New Decals

Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover : Apply the New Decals
Upcycling: Ice Cream Truck Cozy Coupe Makeover : Apply the New Decals

My kits contain everything that you need to make your coupe look like an ice cream truck. The front grill, the license plate, the dash, mirror, tail lights, door logos, front logo, and 2 logos for the back pillars, and some extra ice cream decals.

How to Fix Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement Title
Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement

How to Fix Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel

 

Here is a quick overview of how to replace a steering wheel on the Little Tikes Cozy Coupes.  For the purposes of this post, I am using a 1990s Little Tikes Cozy Coupe. I will add measurements in the future to be sure that this can be used for other car replacments.

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement Parts and where they go
Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement 2

The basic set-up is simple. There is the steering wheel, a washer, and a steering wheel clip. All your car needs is the right size of hole, both in diameter, and in depth. I am pretty sure you could modify the replacement parts to fit different dimensions though. That will have to wait for another post. 🙂

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement Inserting the Washer and Y hook
Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement 4

 

So the steering wheel clip slides into the bottom of the steering wheel, with the “Y” end up. Push it up until the clip ends pop out of the holes in the tube.

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement Title
Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Steering Wheel Replacement Title

 

Put the steering wheel into the hole, and underneath, before it goes through the other side, hold the washer on the underside of the hole, and thread the washer and the otherside of the hole onto the bottom tube of the steering wheel. The washer will slide upwards and over the two nobs that are expsoed from the steering wheel clip inside the steering wheel. If you need to take it off again, push in the two exposed clips and let the washer slide back down the tube again.

Little Tikes Steering wheel Replacement underneath
Little Tikes Steering wheel underneath

 

I will get the dimensions and add to this post as soon as I can.