Center Console Gear Shift Display Repair and WTB

[XanderWiFi]

Getting ready to perform a full detail on my car I decided to pull out the center console to get all of those nooks and crannies. Included in this was the shift display located next to the shift knob. All seemed well until I took a sponge to it and that little bit alone started smearing the letters...Needless to say I think it is pretty much screwed. So...

1. Anyone ever do a home touch up on one of these? Certain stenciling? Type of paint?

2. The much better option: anyone have a good condition extra laying around in need of purchase or good riddance?

3. Other cool tricks? I am planning to backlight it with some LEDs this time around.

[jawa]

cool trick i did was put in a aurora 2nd gen shifter, the gated one , then put a manual shifter bezel on, watching my friends try to get it in gear is good fun lol

[tw0123]

let me check my parts collection over the weekend... I am pretty sure I still have one kicking around from the interior swap...
cross border shipping might suck though...

[spc2125]

just go to the junk yard if you can. takes like 1 minute to remove it

[XanderWiFi]

Originally Posted by tw0123

let me check my parts collection over the weekend... I am pretty sure I still have one kicking around from the interior swap...
cross border shipping might suck though...

Much appreciated. No worries, I will have it apart for a while.

[Papa Rad17]

if only you would had this up a few weeks ago... im interested to see how your led back lighting idea will look.

[XanderWiFi]

Originally Posted by spc2125

just go to the junk yard if you can. takes like 1 minute to remove it

I did. The one nearby will only sell minimum of 25$ worth of crap and they go out and get it. They would sell me the whole "shift" whatever the eff that precisely means for $50 but I'm not spending that for one piece of plastic.

[xXManwhoreXx]

Originally Posted by jawa

cool trick i did was put in a aurora 2nd gen shifter, the gated one , then put a manual shifter bezel on, watching my friends try to get it in gear is good fun lol

Pics????

[sleepyalero]

Originally Posted by xXManwhoreXx

Pics????

you must not have been around at the time when he did this... as in didnt come to the site for awhile.

[xXManwhoreXx]

Naw I prob just didnt pay attention... You know im noy a fan of cosmetics

[Oldsman]

Originally Posted by jawa

cool trick i did was put in a aurora 2nd gen shifter, the gated one , then put a manual shifter bezel on, watching my friends try to get it in gear is good fun lol

Try putting mine in gear........lol.

[Oldsman]

My cool trick was buying a Hurst dual/gate for an 80's camaro and custom fabbing it into the Alero. It is the same shifter that was used in the Hurst/Olds and 442 W-30.

[XanderWiFi]

I'll look into those but I don't think I'll be doing much custom fabricating. I do have LED questions but I am going to look on another thread or make one more directed to the question.

Put a blue LED bulb where the stock cubby bulb is. Problem I have is I only had about 3/4 inch of wire to connect to and when I went to strip it I accident pulled the entire coating of plastic off that little bit of wire. Soldered, covered in electrical tape but the bulb will go out with too much movement this way or that. I am thinking it is being grounded out with the entire covering being pulled off? Remedies or tricks to such a thing?

[XanderWiFi]

Ah hell. And now everything on the grey/black wire is dead...

[Oldsman]

it's grounding out. you are going to have to go back into the harness some and run a new wire.

[XanderWiFi]

Yep already done. Had to make a separate thread for it. Now I just need that part if anyone has one laying around.