2015 BRZ Limited: wrong shift knob?
 

I just picked up my 2015 Limited in Dark Gray Metallic. I'm very, very happy thus far.

I noticed that my shift knob has the wrong pattern on it. It's a six-speed pattern, but it shows reverse as being to the right and down. Reverse is actually to the left and up. Did someone in Gunma screw on the wrong knob? Or is this a known issue? I searched for things like "BRZ wrong knob" and didn't find much.

Thanks!

Jason

Take it to your dealer, but first, share a photo!

They may have put your reverse gear in backwards.

Lmao, definitely wrong, and definitely take a pic first :D

I wonder if the European RHD models have reverse in that setup?

Take a picture!

Maybe you should keep it for limited error selling get extra money come up sale on ebay or something :D

Pic or it didnt happen. If you cant figure out how to post it, message me and I'll help you.

:needpics:

Shift patterns are the same no matter what side drive you have.


OP sounds like you may have ended up with a WRX STI knob. It's the same but the shift pattern is 1-6 with reverse being to the right and back. If it has a red base it'll be a 2015 STI knob.

Like so.

http://alexkell.com/photos/subaru/sh...m-sti-knob.jpg

Good to know. I've never been in the front seats of a RHD car, so I never noticed lol.

Thats what I was thinking when I first read this, someone gave him a WRX knob. We gotta see the pic OP!!!

PICS NAAAOOO!

pics or it didn't happen

in for the pic

I will gladly post a pic late on Sunday night. I'm on an airplane right now (posting via Southwest WiFi) and I won't be back in my car until Sunday evening. I thought about taking a photo and posting it, but I thought this was such a mundane subject that I'd be lucky to get any replies at all, let alone ones demanding pics.

I'm pretty sure I got a pre-2015 WRX STI knob. I don't believe it's a 2015 WRX STI knob because, as far as I can remember, it doesn't have a red ring on the base. The knob looks a lot like the one in the image Porcupint posted.

I ordered the car (as opposed to buying one off the lot) through Nikki at Heuberger, and it had seven miles on it when I first sat in the driver's seat. It's not like the car was sitting on the showroom floor and had its shift knob switched by some 14-year-old smartass.

Curiouser and curiouser. Like I said, I'll post pics as soon as I get back to my car (Sunday).

Cheers,

Jason

Probably should have clarified. The STI knob will have the red as the background color for the shift pattern on top of the knob while the rest looks the same. If it looks like the image I posted, it is more likely that you got a 2015 WRX non-STI model shift knob.

Either way it's still pretty neat in my opinion that the car was delivered and no one noticed that reverse was not where the pattern says it is.

turn it around. your knob is probably just rotated. :lol:

yes I know not really just trying to be funny

;)

Yep, I've got the non-STI WRX knob from 2015. Very odd. I agree that it's interesting that no one noticed this at all through production, inspection and delivery. I only noticed the second time I tried to shift into reverse.

The first time, I went up and to the left because that's where reverse was on my 2005 MINI; it was by force of habit. When I actually looked at the pattern, I wondered why the heck it was so hard to find reverse...

Cheers,

Jason

I can confirm that is the same as a 2015 WRX knob. I am sure it was swapped AFTER it left the factory.

Wbradley, what makes you so sure of when the swap took place (if it took place at all?)

I have no idea how or why this might have happened, so all theories seem equally valid to me. Do you have more insight?

Just my 2 cents here...

There's probably a large box of WRX shift knobs and BRZ shift knobs at the factory in Japan. Perhaps there was a guy who was moving the boxes to the assembly line. Little did that guy know he didn't tie his non-slip tennis shoes as tightly as he though and it came undone. That undone shoe lace cause him to trip and fall spilling many WRX shift knobs every which way. Not wanting to get in trouble from his superiors, he quickly gathered all of them and tossed them back in the box. All except one. Which was found by the clean up crew. The clean up guy figured it had been dropped and forgotten and nonchalantly tossed in the next box of similar looking shift knobs he saw. Little did he know that his small act of helpfulness would lead to a small mass confusion on a forum board a few months later.

Congrats op. You have the chosen shift knob. Cherish it forever. It's journey has been a long and tiresome one devoid of it's friends and family.

In 4 Duh Pic~

Here's one of promised pics. To me, the knob is slightly different from the one in the photo of the '15 WRX knob, as the leather is plain all around (as opposed to being perforated on the sides, like the one in the picture).

Waddya' know? He delivered.

http://nyocommercialobserver.files.w...angry-baby.jpg

take it to the dealers!

So it looks like they stuck the wrong shift pattern insert in the top. You should sell it on eBay for a million dollars as the only factory-produced BRZ-WRX hybrid shift knob ever produced and sold to the public.

Normally, that's what I'd do. But I like the people on this board so much that I'm going to offer it here at a massive $50,000 discount. That's right--just $950,000. Step right up!

Cheers,

Jason

Keep it in your office to remind you that even a multi-million dollar factory screws up from time to time...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...g=eyJpIjoidCJ9

It's kinda funny. I think its less likely that the factory installed the wrong shift knob and more likely that the dealership broke the knob or it broke in transit and the dealer had to make a quick fix, unknowingly put on a shift knob with the wrong shift pattern.

I'd keep it for originality and quirkiness!

Still looks like a 2015 WRX knob to me.


http://www.subaru.ca/Content/7907/Me...background.jpg

And another.


http://image.motortrend.com/f/roadte...shift-knob.jpg

Possibly a factory screw up, or it could've been a cheeky dealership employee. Either way, bring it back!

I'd bring it in and tell the service writer that your car is broken and won't go in reverse.

Me thinks that the car may have been left unlocked on the lot before it was sold and someone stole the knob. Then it was replaced by the dealer with the Wrex knob.

2015 BRZ Limited: wrong shift knob?
 

I don't know about vehicle plants, but at every engine plant I've been in, if it hits the floor, it gets scrapped.

I forgot to close a latch when I was a co-op and I dropped 3 valve bodies off a cart one day. We scrapped them all. My boss joked that the cost would be taken out of my paycheck.

Sent from Tandy 400

My theory is that the shift knobs are just made in some random factory with far less strict quality control in place. And what Porcupint stated probably happened.