Just bought my first car used, and the "leather" on the shifter knob is crumbling to bits. I'm thinking of putting some black epoxy clay to sculp back the shape in the missing cavities, but does anyone have a better idea? I've done miniature modelling with stuff like that before, but don't know how I would float the surface smooth
>>2970056Get a replacement shifter or peel it off and glue on new leather, art stores sell the real and synthetic stuff.
No DIY is going to feel right. Depending on the car its probably not more than $100-150 to replace with a new shift knob. You may have to look it up by part number in a parts catalog and buy from a dealer. Do not buy a chinese clone shift knob it will deteriorate in a month.There is a thread called >sqtddtot which is where questions like this should be posted in the future.
>>2970059>No DIY is going to feel right.People make custom shifter knobs all the time.
>>2970061dang ol whipper snappers dees days done aint never copped a aight ball from local billiards parlor an tapped it fer theys shiftin stick!
>>2970061I havent seen good results for someone rewrapping an automatic knob like that with a release button. Any off the shelf vinyl/leather product and most glue wont hold up to regular use and will peel up at the edges. A manual gear shifter, simpler shape, without those seams is totally different. Mine is basically a cue ball with a nut inside.But this is DIY so feel free to fuck around and make it out of horrifying anthropomorphized silicone at expense of 3x versus buying a new one.
>>2970056you don't know where this shifter knob has been
>>2970056probably easier and cheaper to just go to the junk yard and pick one.
why not go for a shifter that suits you?
>>2970059>There is a thread called >sqtddtot which is where questions like this should be posted in the future.tranny jannies don't enforce it. the entire catalog is just one big sqtddtot.
thread a billiard ball on that bitch
>>2970056Pick 'N Pull or whatever the local equivalent is.
