Did you read the story about their company at all? I was checking it out. It looks like the same thing that Mustang was about to do. The guy wrote that he had a piece go out on his BMW's odometer, and where he just needed the gear, they would have to replace an entire housing for between $150 and $260. He found a way to have his own made and found it was a recurring issue. He started helping others with the same issue and it grew and grew. So yeah, he probably had a buddy with a G35 or somehow someone contacted him and showed him it was a similar piece.

It is interesting.

So far, their ordering was simple. I used Paypal to pay. They sent me their own email within a couple hours afterwards with a PDF receipt, a thanks for the order it will ship today, and a link to common questions at their website.

I expect it early next week. They did have very adequately detailed instructions at their website. I look forward to replacing this in just a few minutes.

Dave

And when things go well with this, I plan to send them an email to let them know and to expect many more sales of this particular piece.

 

although this thread went ot, it's amazing how a community can come up with new solutions over a simple question ^^

imma have to try to enable the entry/exit system now.

thx guys!

 

I'm probably going to buy 1 myself.

I'd rather have the gear ready and waiting. Seeing as this is a common issue...it's only a matter of time

BUT! Auto Entry/Exit is back on!

 

I turned my auto entry/exit on yesterday, but ended up turning it back off. Just seems kind of pointless to me. Maybe it's more useful if you're really tall or something.

I did finally set my seat memory though and programmed it to my key fob. I'm trying to get my wife to program hers to the other key fob, but she just says 'you never let me drive you car anyway, so what's the point'?

 

How is that for service?

My gear arrived today. That is incredible turnaround.

Install started very straight forward and was going well. It should have taken me all of 15 minutes, even with me ignoring the directions asking for vice grips and having to go back upstairs for them.

When I went to put the new gear on, it wouldn't. It has two flat sides and is otherwise round. I took the original and saw that it had resistance until you lined up the flat sides properly, and then slide right on. This new one would not. I had the thought to sand it down towards the back, but thought it smarter to text them (it says at their site to feel free to text them at these numbers) briefly explaining what I experience and asked if perhaps I got a bad one. I got a response within three minutes. He said that it should fit snug. If I break it putting it on, they will send me a new one.

In testing, if I put it on backwards, it would slide on further and be real tight. I sanded the back just a little bit with very fine wet sanding sandpaper.

It did fit in. It does work now. I do feel like I heard a little something from the other rail not. That one could go before long. I am debating whether I should wait, or just get a second one now.

I recommend buying this (well, instead of the alternative of buying a whole rail assembly). It will either take about 15 minutes, or just pull out the sand paper and sand as little as needed to get it to fit.

And the memory seats still work.

Dave

 

This thread ROCKS !!!

EDIT: Followed the link. I copied this.

They also have instructions with photos. http://www.odometergears.com/subpage...ar_How_To.html

Luckily none of this is an issue for me.......yet