Shift boot plastic tabs

[Beatty, Robert]

GOOD idea.... as i just was a the dealer yesturday pricing a boot and seeing
if i could get just the plastic part without the boot.... not available and
the whole boot.... 162 and change... OUCH!!!!!!!!...

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric_R_Kissell at email.whirlpool.com
> [SMTP:Eric_R_Kissell at email.whirlpool.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 07, 2000 3:31 PM
> To:	quattro at audifans.com; paul.meyers at citrix.com; quattro at ptinet.net
> Subject:	Re: Shift boot plastic tabs
> 
> >Anybody got a good solution to restoring the tabs on the shift 
> >boot other than buying a new one? 
> 
> I have used 5 minute epoxy to adhere jumbo paper clips in place 
> of the broken tabs. This involved building up the epoxy around 
> the paper clip wires because there is not a lot of material to 
> attach to the clip. I bent the clips so they were lined up with 
> the slots in the console. Then I bent the interior and exterior 
> hoops of each paper clip in opposite directions to make a spring 
> loaded sort of tab. I hold each clip closed and start it into 
> the associated slot on the console and then release it once it 
> is started so it can spring open to give some retention force. 
> Not a perfect solution, but things are holding together.
> 
> Eric R. Kissell
> 1989 200q Avant, needs 1.8 bar upgrade
> 1986 5000cstq, 1.8 bar, k24, Fuchs at next tire change
> 1987 VW GTI 16v, 1984cc, Euro Intake Camshaft, Techtonics SS exhaust, etc.
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