2015 BRZ Limited: wrong shift knob?

[that_one_guy]

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!

[Burrcold]

Still looks like a 2015 WRX knob to me.

[Burrcold]

And another.

[Turbowned]

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

[BRZnut]

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

[driftguy]

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.

[Quentin]

Originally Posted by Porcupint

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.

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

[PandaSPUR]

Originally Posted by Quentin

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.