Da-Boot For Automatics

[Connie]

Automatics look plain in the Center Console. So, I had my brother who is an Upholster, to come up with a solution. I call it Da-Boot. Since his name is Dave. Oh, this is Bob, not Connie.

 

[PinkieT]

Bought a generic boot with colored thread off eBay and did something similar. Changed the shift knob at the same time.

 

[dwcopple]

Me too^. $8 boot and $7 shifter

 

[delling3]

What year did Ford move to the electronic odometer/gear indicator in the dash? I thought it was with new edge in 1999, but I know PinkieT doesn't own New Edges? My '96 as the analog odometer and gearshift position indicator adjacent to the shifter . . .

 

[Connie]

It's so funny, how many times people believed our Shifters were Manual. But, I tell them of course, they're Automatics. That intrigues them even more! Boots really do make our Auto Shifters look really sharp. I wish I could take sharper Pics though, like PinkieT's.

 

[apsmith49921]

What year did Ford move to the electronic odometer/gear indicator in the dash? I thought it was with new edge in 1999, but I know PinkieT doesn't own New Edges? My '96 as the analog odometer and gearshift position indicator adjacent to the shifter . . .

99 is the year.

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[PinkieT]

Yep, on my wife's 98 the shift indicator is covered up. Not a big deal to her. My Hurst knob doesn't have a shift pattern on it either. Also, she can't turn off overdrive since the button was on the old shift knob, but it would be easy to put a button someplace and connect the wire that went to it. Again, not a big deal as she doesn't tow or drive on hills, the two primary reasons to turn off overdrive.

 

[delling3]

Huh, have to think about that. I have been considering going to a B&M Hammer shifter. I really don't need it for the functional aspect of a ratchet shifter, just hate the look of the stock shifter. I think that looks real nice. Also didn't know that a generic shift knob could be retrofitted to the stock shifter either.

 

[PinkieT]

I got mine at Advance Auto. Wasn't hard at all to swap out. https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p...?searchTerm=automatic transmission shift knob
For the boot, all I did was take off the factory handle, take off the bezel, put the boot over the shifter, tuck the boot around the factory shifter base, and pop the bezel back on.

 

[NEURON]

Darn nothing for the new edge.

 

[PinkieT]

Darn nothing for the new edge.

Why wouldn't what I did work for a New Edge?

 

[NEURON]

Why wouldn't what I did work for a New Edge?

Brain Fart is why lol.

 

[PinkieT]

Brain Fart is why lol.

I resemble that remark!