So the leather on my 6mt shift **** is peeling off and i can see a smooth plastic underneath. i will eventually get a new shift **** but for the time being i want to do a DIY fix and see if it looks good without the leather on it, i was wondering if anyone had any experience doing something like this?

please dont just tell me to get a new shift **** or anything, i know i can spend a couple bucks and get a new **** - and i will eventually but right now i just want to see if i can salvage the one i have for a quick fix.

 

It's just a cheap piece of plastic underneath. There's really no way to make it look good unless you can fashion a new leather cover or something. I just changed my **** to a new OEM one and when I took off the old one, I ripped all the "leather" off (it was already tearing and that thing took some serious effort to unscrew, and it kinda ripped off by default).

Of course, like I said, reupholstering would likely be the only way to make it look decent.

 

So its one uniform peice of plastic? Im not really worried about how it looks as long as it feels okay when i shift it

 

Yup, just a hunk of plastic with fake leather wrapped around it.

The shift pattern emblem thing is inset tho, and it helps hold the "leather" on, so you may have to get a razor to trim around that and clean it up tho.

 

is it possible to take off the hard plastic/leather off the stock shift **** and get it reupholstered in real leather?

 

Ya dude everything is possible with $$$$. Take yours off and see how simple it would be lol.

 

There's a guy in our marketplace selling a willow one for $20. It's not perfect, but its super decent. There are also aftermarket *****. Haha

Reupholstering it would be a huge, unnecessary mistake. The stock ***** on eBay sell for $149..usually can't find willow ones tho (not sure of your interior color).

Just get a nice weighted ball type.