...well not really, but about as close as i'm going to get in auto form!
What does everyone reckon?
Sorry about the poor quality pic, don't have a digi camera and my phones camera is kinda dodgy. Also i know the floors a mess :P.
What i did, replaced the standard 3rd gen shifter with a 380 auto shifter and installed a leather manual gear boot thingy.

Love the shifter looks nice and the leather boot looks good too, only problem i can see is that you do not clean your car enough lol

so you finally got around to putting it on congrats looks heaps better than original, glad to see it fit after so much speculation

looks good leigh. but try to get the leather boot attached to the console. theres to much gap between the boot and console

looks good.. :D

Im in the process of putting a gear boot on my auto shifter aswell (just for the sake of it) but im making it out of black leather with red baseball stitching...

done one with fabric to make sure it will work, getting the leather on thursday so should have it done over (if not by) the weekend..

looks good leigh. but try to get the leather boot attached to the console. theres to much gap between the boot and console
Totally agreed, but i couldn't see anywhere to mount it unless i had screws poking up through the console :(.

looks sweet leigh, however, how do u attatch the top bit? And also how do u change gears, my car you have to push a button in, how do u have to do it now?

looks sweet leigh, however, how do u attatch the top bit? And also how do u change gears, my car you have to push a button in, how do u have to do it now?

the 380 shifters have a button you pull in like a trigger on a gun (sorta).. its on the other side where u cant see it..

was you shifter the same as what id have in my TJ?? i like the 380 shifter but stuffed if i can get mine off

this is the best way to describe myne on the cressida


EDIT: Picture didnt work

bascially its a T shape and theres a button on one side of the T



you have to press in the button thing to change gears. Would this mod be possible in my car? It looks sweet as!

Totally agreed, but i couldn't see anywhere to mount it unless i had screws poking up through the console :(.


its easy as to do man. just use small screws. thats wat i did and t worked out perfect

its easy as to do man. just use small screws. thats wat i did and t worked out perfect
There are 4 bits of plastic sticking out just past each corner, is that what you're talking about? I'll have to find a screw that will thread itself in there. Though i think my biggest problem is making the gear boot stretch that far.

looks sweet leigh, however, how do u attatch the top bit? And also how do u change gears, my car you have to push a button in, how do u have to do it now?
Sorry i missed this before.
The way the 3rd gen shifter works is that when you push the button on the top, this is connected to a plastic rod which goes down the shaft and allows you to change gears.
The biggest problem with the 380 shifter was that it is NOT designed to work with this plastic rod,i'd be interested to see how it works in the 3rd gen actually. The switch does push down, but it is WAY too weak and doesn't move nearly enough. The only way to do it is to strengthen the bit that flicks down and to mount the shifter so that it sits where the 3rd gen button would be pushed in half way, roughly enough so that it can be pushed down to move the gearstick but not down enough to move it freely.
In the process of testing out all this, i snapped the plastic rod (luckily had just enough left so that it could be fully pushed down to disengage the lever lock). At the moment the rod is very dodgily re-attached and the gear stick is mounted so that it sits with the lock fully disengaged at all times. You can go from D to N usually without needing the lock anyway and i've never knocked the gear lever in 4 years of driving, but i will be fixing it this weekend as ya never know :).

The manual boots from mitsu look the sex. $20. And they fit properly.

looks good leigh..!