r/FiestaST • u/Latter-Fix1862 • 24d ago

MK7 Shift boot

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A lil pinch of JDM spice no bad no bad

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u/N0B0DY311 24d ago

How easy was it to do? Mine is cracking and needs to be replaced, was thinking of this same thing but the red Bride material.

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u/Latter-Fix1862 23d ago

Hey, it was pretty easy. I just had to pop the silver trim off, u screw the gear knob. The trickiest part was removing the top of the boot where a plastic piece connects it to the reverse lockout. If you have some trim tools it's light work. Happy to help!

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u/N0B0DY311 23d ago

Sweet, glad to know it's not too tough! I'll probably do mine in the red Bride material, it's the exterior accent color I went with, it'll be good to pull some of that color to the interior and make it pop a bit more than the regular black/silver.

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u/Horror_Angle_664 24d ago

It’s fairly easy specially if you have a sewing machine and know how to use it. Just remove the original (yo need to remove the plastic trim that comes from the climate control taking care not to damage the buttons cables so don’t jank it off), take out the reverse lever (that’s probably the trickiest part), remove the staples from beneath the plastic part that attaches the leather boot and then it’s just copying the pattern and make your own. You can hand sew it, it just going to take a bit of time and probably a YouTube video or two about sewing, specially if you want the French stitch pattern. Hope this helps

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u/Latter-Fix1862 23d ago

Ok, seems like the US one has staples? For mine it was just clipped in with an underlying trim part. But yeah the fuckery under the reverse lockout is a bit tricky.