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After you download the PET. Think about ordering a Bentley manual. At a minimum search here and figure out all the tips and tricks involved in setting up the shifter. To replace all the bushings you have to commit to dialing in the shifter from scratch. Not that hard really, but a bit fiddley to get just right.

All the work can be done from the top. Center tunnel at the back pull up the carpet and you'll see a trapezoidal shaped access panel. This is where you shift coupler lives. Ed's (coupler whisperer/Ivangene) bushings are a great upgrade. Even the new Porsche busings have a bit of designed in slop.

The other two bushings are accessed by pulling the shift tower. The bottom end of the shifter handle is a ball. The cup bushing snaps over this ball and then inserts into a cup on the end of the shift shaft. The ring bushing is in a 90* bracket at the back end of the shifter housing inside the tunnel..

Replacing all of these has been well documented here on the board. Once these are replaced your shifting should be about as precise as the factory allowed for. Keep in mind that 1-2-3-4 were never spring loaded from the factory. Only fifth and reverse are spring loaded from the factory.

If you want to kick up your shifter precision to the next level look into the Seine Gate Shift kit or ask Ed about his super secret shifter upgrade. Both of these options add spring loading in the 1-2 plane. I have the Seine GSK in my car and it makes mis-shifts near impossible. -J