Metal pans have a number of uses, but it's probably not a good idea to use it as a car steering wheel.

An Australian man has been charged by police after they found him steering his car around with a pan Sunday morning. Authorities were called to the area after a man and a "suspicious red Mazda sedan," were seen in an Adelaide street.

"Police spoke with the driver and inspected his car finding the steering wheel had been replaced with a metal pan and the front number plate had been altered," according to a statement by police.

Image: sa police

The metal pan has also been personalised: "Uncontrollable and driven to love only a beating heart," reads the pan in white paint. Can't do that with a regular steering wheel, can you?

The 32-year-old was charged with driving unregistered, uninsured, driving contrary to defect, removing defect label, altering number plates and breaching bail, and will appear in court in October.

So there you go folks, this is how a driving without a normal steering wheel pans out.