Cefiro: Fitting Jay's Boots

[someonestolecc]

Hello,

I'm going to refer particularly to Jay's gearstick and handbrake boots for installation as they are the ones I have bought. These are direct replacement for r32 so it may be possible, in some ways, to follow these instructions for using r32 boots in a cefiro.

If you don't know which boots I'm talkinga bout see here .

First any foremost these are excellent quality and it shows that Jay actually cares when he puts them together so while I don't know him I highly recommend them.

Tools you will need-

Flathead screwdriver

Phillipshead screwdriver

A skilled leather person (those shops you get keys and shoes cut/fixed at) or if you're skilled and have leather tools you can do this yourself.

Possibility some food (it can't hurt)

1. Take out all your old stuff.

I haven't taken a picture because mine was out already and I forgot but you will need to take out your cover that is in front of your stereo. This is easy there are screws on either side and it should just come right off.

Next is the gear stick holder-er thing, these clip in on the side closer to the rear of the car and require you to pull up on the rear half. The front locks in but doesn't click in so once the rear is up it will come out.

Turn it around and you will notice the leather/plastic is sewn into a metal frame that pops into the plastic cover.

Pop it out.

Hold onto it and start on the console.

Take out all your money etc and start unscrewing the 3 screws inside the console "hidey hole".

This should come out at the angle shown, it helps to have your gear in 1st and gearstick half to full up.

Underneath this you will find a metal plate with 2 screws. Remove this plate it holds onto it evil spirits.

Triumph!

You can now go back inside the house and eat aforementioned food - be sure to wash your hands before handling Jay's brilliant boots however.

With the gearstick boot - with some scissors or those little sewing tools that cut thread *take breath* cut the thread and take it off, try not to break or bend the metal framing - you will be using this again.

With the handbrake boot basically just rip the boot from the metal frame.

Now that you have removed your old stuff tap your head 3 times - feels good don't it?

To get the handbrake boot on I simply used a silicone sealer - leather glue would probably be the best but the stuff I used seemed to do the job nicely!

A word of advice - you will want to line it up first and then use the glue. I did one side at a time (took a long time). Also with the cefiro the dimensions are tight - you'll need to make sure before you glue that it fits nicely (which it can). One side already was sticky so I used that to line it up and hold it on - you should have some glue left over in it also.

As for the gearstick boot, I couldn't actually pierce the leather with a normal needle so what I did was take it down to one of those places that do keys and shoes. They glued and sewed it up for me all professional like for $20.*

Very nice.

Stick it back in (is that what she said?!) after it's all glued up and nice.

You're ready to start to put stuff back in the car.

The handbrake bracket should fit in perfect but be a little tight as the leather Jay has provided is (imo) a better quality and thicker than the original. It's easier to fit over the handbrake lever with the buttons undone.

Just follow the steps up top in reverse to put everything back together.

The result -

Very very nice.

(*) - I didn't use the little ring that you're meant to sow in the top of the gearstick boot. I prefer it this way, because the leather can be shaped to sit nicely and loosely around the shifter (i also have a short shift so its nice this way). If you wanted to use it you would ask them to put this in also.

Thanks Jay! Great work.

[Jay95R33]

Great work. Glad they fitted without to much modifying.

Cheers

J