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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: ChrisPee on 03 July 2020, 00:14:41
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Hi chaps, as the title says - I'm ordering new leather waiters and wondered how easy it is to remove an auto knob? I fitted them easily on my manual, but that has a smaller knob (ooh er missus).
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Either cut it off or dismantle half the car to remove the lever :y
Plenty of recent discussions for fitting the new one...
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Hi chaps, as the title says - I'm ordering new leather waiters and wondered how easy it is to remove an auto knob? I fitted them easily on my manual, but that has a smaller knob (ooh er missus).
Do tell ::)
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Leave it in place.
Remove the old gaiter by cutting the first 10mm (approx) of vertical stitching.
Your new gaiter will almost certainly have a much bigger neck, that will fit over the knob and need gathering to hold it in place. Mine came with a cable tie, which worked but was ugly. I slipped some lockwire into the sleeve instead, twisted the ends together, and tucked them in so nothing was visible which looked a lot better.
The handbrake gaiter was the same, but I kept the cable tie as it wasn't visible.
You'll probably need to do a bit of adjusting to get them to fit to the plastic mounts; a sharp blade, contact adhesive and some stretching - standard trimming techniques - takes care of that.
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Thanks guys. Waiters indeed ;D :-[ :y