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Old Aug 8, 2015 | 10:58 PM
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After a long day of thinking I'm thinking of replacing my A7s current shifter with what the 2016 has. I didn't see too many videos on how to remove it, but it seems easy. In this video, the guy had to pry down a metal ring to take the shifter and boot off. Now how do pull it down? Is there a point in that ring where you pry it down or do you just pull it down wherever I want? Also how do I put it back up? Do I just make the ring bigger to get back to the original spot? All in all it seems pretty simple but If anyone has done this conversion please provide some help with this.



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A guy posted in the A6 section a couple of months ago a fairly detailed write-up of how to do it. Do a search on the A6 section. There were a couple of steps that looked a bit tricky, but doable if you are patient and good as such things.
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A guy posted in the A6 section a couple of months ago a fairly detailed write-up of how to do it. Do a search on the A6 section. There were a couple of steps that looked a bit tricky, but doable if you are patient and good as such things.
I tried several searches and couldn't find it
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Any other finds? I found a different one DIY: S-Tronic **** swap
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Originally Posted by asian_A7
Any other finds? I found a different one DIY: S-Tronic **** swap
I saw that but the instructions were not as detailed. Post pics when you make the change.
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