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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: rossi46 on 05 January 2010, 16:37:35

Title: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: rossi46 on 05 January 2010, 16:37:35

Hi, em is there anybody who has changed the standard automatic gearknob from an Omega facelift with something more modern, like from a signum or vectra ect?

Cheers

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: SP_3.2 on 05 January 2010, 16:42:16

Not that i know of , i think that the hard part is with it having the Sports button on the top would make it hard.

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: tunnie on 05 January 2010, 16:45:47

only thing you can do is put a cover of some sort on, combination of the sports button and mechanical lever, they are custom to the Omega.

Although looking at the more 'modern' ones in likes of BMW 5 Series, i'd prefer the Omega style

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: SP_3.2 on 05 January 2010, 16:48:20

Yer with you tunnie prefer the omega one , kind of fits in the the rest of the car.

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: rossi46 on 05 January 2010, 16:58:54

Ye thought it would be kinda tricky, cheers anyway. Was just an idea to think of doing something a bit different

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: Agemo on 05 January 2010, 20:16:32

The Sport button is only a switch, you could use an old Trafficmaster one for example. The difficult bit would be to rig up a catch, to stop reverse being engaged at speed. You would also have to make sure the inhibitor switch was connected up.

Title: Re: Automatic Gearknob
Post by: pedroMV6 on 06 January 2010, 08:36:58

I started to look into this, and someone on here suggested an Astra H gear knob might fit, or be easily modded to fit.

I didn't get any further as other things got in th eway.