OEM shift boot with automaic.

deverse · Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 159

I have a simple question, if you have an OEM shift boot when you go from R to P does it feel like its about to rip or harder to shift? Or is it just me? thanks!

Agent99 · Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 184 Location: Louisville, KY

I have to ask... why do you have a shift boot on an auto?

Hyghgynx · Posted: 8/15/08 11:38PM Post subject:

Shift boot... on an automatic... now THAT'S funny!! :rofl: :rofl:
Why do people do this? Peeps should get a MT from the get-go. :lalala:

hyperwhitetc · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 802

No it doesnt feel like its gonna rip and i did it because i hate the look of the auto guide plate, not cuz i wanted a mani. get over it, most of us do it because it looks nicer and most of the newer model cars these days have a boot rather then a guide plate, so its not something new were coming up with

Hyghgynx · Posted: 8/15/08 11:49PM Post subject:

^^There's nothing for me to 'get over'. :P
If you want to look like an MT and still sound like an AT, more power (no pun intended) to you. :wink:

hyperwhitetc · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 802

yeah the part where i said to get over it was when you said "Shift boot... on an automatic... now THAT'S funny!! :rofl: :rofl:" common, really its not that hilarious guy. if you got out of a tc and saw other "higher end model cars" you would see that its not that uncommon. well back on topic then, no your boot wont rip.

FLEA · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 2057 Location: Orange, CA

I put the shift boot on my automatic for a couple reasons.

1. I was getting sick and tired of seeing the ugly guide plate caked with dust. Which is weird because I keep my car in top condition, both interior and exterior.

2. I love seeing the "WTF! Where's the clutch?" look on people's faces when they get in my car to drive it.

O5_TRD_tC · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4061 Location: Bay Area!

I put mine on, so I can shift like a manual!

vRooooM

superwhiteTC20 · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 567 Location: Cary, NC

I put mine on cause I was embarrassed when my car was an auto and my friends would laugh at me =[....no, really it gets annoying when people say that we are trying to look like MT when we just hate the plate that comes stock as everyone else said.

O5_TRD_tC · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4061 Location: Bay Area!

I know right b/c manual tC's r so expensive! lol

superwhiteTC20 · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 567 Location: Cary, NC

Lol, ok but really, yes I have realized that its a little bit harder to shift just because of the strain from the boot. Not enough to make me go back to the plate, god nothing can do that lmao.

1_kLEan_tC · Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 2578 Location: Pleasant Hil CA

I have it on my car.....I love it...it fools people all the time!

RCZDesigns · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 783 Location: Peoria, AZ

When I did the manual boot on my old Auto it was hard to get it into park for a couple days, then the leather stretched after sitting overnight in P a few times.

Beware though, the leather-on-leather on the right side when going into P will chaff and look like crap after a few months. I tried to bring the boot up but it never stood.