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Old 08-26-2014, 04:53 PM
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Default 2001 Audi A6 shift **** help please

So i read a past thread on how to fix tiptronic if the magnets fell off. so i followed the directions to remove my shifter ****. replaced the magnet that fell off. But now when i put the shifter **** back on the button dosent work. Acts as if a spring or something is broken, im not sure. the button just pushes in and stays. I can pull in back out, but it dosent sprig in and out like it should. Did I somehow put it back on wrong. Or did i break it. Can someone please help me. Also is there a way I can stil shift the car into gears like this. Help me.
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So just to be sure. When you did it, you moved the shifter down to the 3 position, pulled the button out and then pulled the **** off? Then when you installed it you had it in 3 and pull the button out and push on? Should be fine. I have had them when the button actually comes out of the **** and its tricky to get it seated back in right.
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No i had it in park position. When I put it back on...how should the button be positioned?
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Uhhh If you pulled it off with it in park, you just destroyed the shifter assembly. See the yellow/clear plastic post sticking up, if you pull on that it should move through the gears. It should have a square hole in it that the **** grabs and pulls up. Its probably now broken off. You should have read how to do it before yanking it off lol.
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ok so how can i fix it. and the instruction i read did not specify what gear to put the car in. I can just buy a new ****?
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Well no look at your shifter itself, the thing sticking out of the floor. Is the piece on the end broken off or not.
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no the plastic piece is fine and still working. the piece is not broken off.
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Oh, then sweet, put it in 3rd, Pull out the button, and push the **** on. Should be all.
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your talking about the white thing that come out of the shifter that when i pull up still allows me to change gears with out the leather **** that goes on top right?
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your talking about that white part right?


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