Recently, i replaced the gear knob in the car because the internal plastic bits were crumbling and breaking off. That meant i had a spare knob with a pretty good exterior to play around with. So i decided to see if i could customize my DFGT's knob to fit.
Took quite a bit more work (& time) and some small fabrication to get it to fit but it's in!
The original knob on the DFGT can be easily removed by flipping the unit upside down and just undoing a nut. But the shaft and knob is actually as one piece of plastic so i had to saw off the original knob.
I fitted my car's gearknob in and it was a good fit, some double sided foam tape and super-glue later, it was in. But needing a longer shaft to fit the BMW's knob meant the bottom of the BMW knob was rubbing the housing, so i had to fabricate a spacer using a plastic bottlecap from a small sample-sized face wash bottle.
Spacer in place, it went in nicely leaving a gap for the BMW knob to move freely. Of course it still stays as a sequential shifter and the H-shift pattern is just a leftover from the car. Looks pretty nifty i think.
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