Removing the Gear Selector on an A6 Tiptronic (Advice before I bodge it please)

[gupsterg]

can you shed any light on the clip part, it's like a jubilee clip and it won't really move and I don't want to break it. everything else was plain sailing up to this point.

I think the tool is in PDF... hose clip pliers .... sorry chap was out... otherwise glued to this forum

Huge thanks to Gupsterg for the online advice and the PDF he sent to me.

No worries... new addition looks great

The clamp P/N:- N 102 555 01 £1, but I think with cable tie/locking of push button it maybe ok.

It would be great to see a shot of interior once new steering wheel on

Not mine but an example...

[jamcam23]

Well, I got the Carbon Fibre 3M Wrap over the weekend and with the new re-trimmed steering wheel, the inserts, wheel and gear knob have now been changed, (minus the transmission tunnel). Changing the inserts was a bit of a fiddle and I used Royal Steering Wheels to re-trim the wood wheel and what a job Jack has done.

Wheel Before and Birch wood Inserts.

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And now with Carbon Fibre Inserts front and back.

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Really happy with the look and feel, makes the car a nicer place to sit and much more contemporary.

[Guest 2]

Looks good!

Now you just need to get rid of that centre console!

[jamcam23]

Might be a bit beyond my carbon fibre wrapping skills..i might have a stab at it, but looks a bit of a bugger to remove and too fiddly to try and wrap in the car.

[gupsterg]

Wheel and gearstick look

To get at centre console sound/look more work than it maybe really be... I removed a lot of interior to remove carpet...

I can always email you some how to's for you to asses...

[jamcam23]

That would be helpful mate, I just found a You Tube clip of an American Company removing part of the console for installation of Dension Gateway, so it shows how to remove the ash tray and climate control unit. Anything else you have might give me enough to get the job done.

On another note, I'd like to change the exhaust tips on my car, mine are the standard downward facing tips, do you guys know of any decent straight units? A search doesn't offer much and Google just brings up Millitek etc (and that's next year

[NSU]

Got PM now... PDF's on route...

Hi Gupsterg, I'm a newbie and can't PM you! I would love to have a copy of the PDF instructions to replace my Q7 gear shifter...Thanks in advance

[gupsterg]

Hi,
Welcome to VWAF! ...

I have PM'd you my external email, contact me via that ...

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