Configurable Joint Local Space Problem

I'm trying to make a steering wheel. I'm working on a VR game and I'd like to have the left controller pilot the steering wheel and consequently steer the car. I've set up a configurable joint to lock the wheel in place except for the y axis, to make it rotate locally to the car. The connected body is the car itself, the wheel is a child of the car. Axis are automatically generated and Configured in World Space is turned off, still my wheel seems locked in world space and would only rotate on the y axis, but not locally. In fact it locks the whole car in place, until I set it free again on all axis.