You won't believe it! SS snapped!
 

This past Sunday I was driving along, match shifted down to second and a very strange thing happened....the shifter knob fell off to the side and to the rear of the center console! YES! This is true! The B&M lever SNAPPED in half with little or no pressure! I will post pics up later this afternoon or tomorrow as I have been VERY busy at work.

The good note on this story is that I called up EVOMS and spoke to Nate (and Victoria) who both were very surprised with what happened...I naturally boasted to Victoria that I had been working out but certainly this did not attribute to the snapped lever...ehem...LOL...anyway...Nate is sending me a brand new unit free of charge that is made by them and says it is top notch and is comparable to the B&M...I accepted the offer for the set-up and it is on it's way now. I will set up a full test run and report as soon as possible on the new set-up but I really wanted to publicly say thank you to Nate for his attention to customer satisfaction, quick fix and a few laughs!

More to follow and I am sure more to order from EVOMS in the future...

Michael

made in china?

not that I know of...the B&M is the same short shifter that Porsche uses/installs from what I am told and have looked up...they just are different colors or something like that...this is not something that I have heard of happening or know of...I believe it was a fault during production of the kit...it was just funny that it actually snapped! I have had SS in all my cars and never did this happen and everyone I have spoken to has said the same thing...

I heard from a little birdie that b&m is starting to or have been mfg overseas. not sure if it's true or not.

ouch... definitely show us a pic!

Ahhhh, ok...I will def post pics by tomorrow.

Thanks!

How hard is it to remove and replace a SS? Mine was already in the car...hopefully it is nothing compared to the M3...what a B!tch....

that sucks. It's a pretty easy install. It'll take you an hour.

cool, I am going to try and make Sunday's meet...see you there!

:p

the B&M SS's for the Supra used to snap - I broke 2 of them - and there are many others out there. they would never own up to the defect.

- chuck

Thats not good to hear. Ive only heard good things about B&M SSs. Ive had mine for a while now and haven't had a single problem with it.

I spoke to Branden today over email (Ruiner) and he told me he had this shifter for 4 years...so I am not speaking bad about the B&M, it just happened...here are a few pics:

http://i11.tinypic.com/6c7ayqd.jpg

http://i8.tinypic.com/4mb9jxy.jpg

sorry for the dark pic but the car is in the garage...

Stay out the gym! hilarious

that's *very similar* to what happened to the Supras... 4 years ago - around the same time mine broke. maybe B&M has fixed it since but that looks like the same manufacturing defect.

- chuck

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oak, speaking of overseas, I heard from my supply rep that some dentists are using labs in China!