shift knob paint?

[WillH]

Originally Posted by A 986 S

After seeing what needed to be done it was pretty easy to take the worn silver insert out on the shift knob. Here's a photo the knob's component pieces along with one of the fancy plastic and leather safe prying tools that helped get it apart.[



With the hard plastic insert separated from the rest of the knob I removed the remaining silver paint with acetone then cleaned and polished the black plastic. Here is the result.



The all black knob does look a bit Darth Vader-ish so I may go back and repaint it silver later but it does look a darn sight better than it did!

cheers - dj

Looking good, have you thought of getting rid of the silver on the door pulls to match?

[bcinphx]

I want to do the same to my Tiptronic shift knob. Does anybody know how the silver plastic piece comes off of it? Thanks for the tip on the paint color, I bought one.
Thanks,

[Tomikaze]

This is the post I was looking for. Asking for some input from anyone who was disassembled and reassembled one of these knobs. I sold my original knob and did a little restoration project. The end result will be a knob that is NLA from Porsche. I actually like the look and feel of the stock knob. Sold the premium metal one with the crest because I didn’t like the feel. The GT3 and turbo have a similar knob but the insert is one piece without the additional black plastic pattern insert. Still available but only in black leather. I needed graphite gray. Porsche made this part but only in 1999 for the 996 and it’s NLA. So I bought a beat up part on flea bay with this one piece insert. Sent it to Dallas Custom Wheel and now I have this...



I stripped the original insert down and did about 10 light coats of what I thought was a close match to alumalook. Wet sanded in between coats. Filled in the pattern with black and the three good coats of clear.



Here’s the problem. I can’t get the insert back in! Seems like it would be pretty straight forward. But it’s not. Anyone have thoughts? Any tips/tricks? This sucker won’t go back together and I don’t want to mark up the insert by forcing it. I’m sure the answer is going to be force it back in but looking for some one with experience before I damage it.




That’s as far as I can get it back in putting a ton of pressure on it.

[911monty]

Start from the other end. Push the shift pattern in first then move down the handle.

[Tomikaze]

Got it to fit. Took a big rubber mallet and covered the knob in foam and hoped it wouldn't mare the finish. There was no way it was going together without a BFH.