Well, I just spoke to a super nice woman about the steering wheel and she promised me that she would personally fully inspect and ship me a new wheel today as well as refund the cost of shipping back the poorly constructed wheel.
While we were chatting, she mentioned a batch that had to be rebored because the horn contact pins weren't fitting correctly (one of my problems) and that they only quality check so many of them so this one was probably a fluke.
I'll post an update when I receive the new wheel.
