erickropp

I am looking at pictures of the inside of the 460 and some gear shift ***** have leather on the front and the wood on the back. Some have wood on the front and leather on the back.

Does anybody know I can turn my **** around? Mine has leather on the front and it would be nicer to have the wood on the front. You cant see the wood when its on the back which doesnt make any sense to me.

Im wondering why some are one way and some the other way. any explanation?

Thanks

Koz

I've never looked at the GX's shift **** but they usually are threaded on with some type of locking nut or allen set screw. I would think you could loosen the lock and reset/turn the **** and re-lock it. Also the Stealer should be able to turn it for you for free.

Koz

SaniDel

Our early-production 2010 GX 460 has the leather on the front and the wood on the back. Notice from the attached photographs that the gear shift **** is not symmetrical ... there is a large bulge on the back ... are you sure you would want to grip that?

There's certainly a way to remove and maybe to reverse the ****, but it wasn't obvious from a few minutes of fiddling. Perhaps the chrome ring under the **** and above the leather boot can be turned with the correct tool. Sorry ... I don't do tools! ;-)
Regards

SaniDel


P.S. Apologies for the rotated images. I took them in 'portrait' view with my iPhone, but Club Lexus rotated them to 'landscape'.

erickropp

thanks for the info. I will give a look then have the dealer do it if I cant.

erickropp

your **** looks to be correct while mine is the other way around. i definitely want to rotate it

SaniDel

Would imagine it is more difficult to grasp if rotated so the wood side is forward. The **** is asymmetric and knowing Lexus they intended it to be only one way ... their way!
Regards,

SaniDel

SaniDel

Hmmm ... not as asymmetric as I thought as this side view shows. So, It could be reversed, but which side would you rather grip ... wood or leather?
Regards,

SaniDel

erickropp

so I was able to turn the **** by simply turning it clockwise and holding the leather pouch cover in place.

I like the feel of the **** with the wood on the back. The **** feels more natural to the hand like it was meant to be this way.

Though, I like the look of the wood in the front.

so I guess it's easy enough that I can easily change my mind all the time

patgilm

I thought the same thing when I first started looking at the GX. I though it looks better to have the wood on the front but the way it is contoured it is definitely better to have the wood on the back.

Unfortunately for me the wood on my shift **** has a little piece that is peeling/sticking up where it meets the chrome ring and it almost cut my finger. I called the dealer I purchased it from and hopefully they will take care of it and order me a new one. I took pictures and sent it to them and am just waiting to hear from them. My truck only has 150 miles on it so hopefully they won't say I did it since it would be impossible for someone to actually do something like this to the shift ****.

Koz

I changed my IS ****.

Koz

jaleels

This is from the LS 600 and would look great on the GX.

patgilm

^^^
Looks like a factory LS600hL shift ****. I would love to have one on mine but I am not willing to pay $300 for a shift ****.

Koz,

Looks like you still have the nice all weather mats in your IS. When I took mine in to the dealer for the pedal recall my friend who is my service adviser forgot to tell me to take out my old all weather mats and they ended up shredding them and replaced them with the new thinner/cheaper floor mats.

Koz

The OEM all weather mats lasted less then a year before a hole wore through (old pic). I replaced them with WeatherTech liners (excellent mats). I would never buy Lexus mats again (POS).

Koz