They say if you take the top shifter boot off, then cut a slit in the second lower boot, the shifter gets better. I dont have the shifting problem, but then again I dont have the 2nd boot anymore. The only bad thing about not having the boot at all is that when you drive with the windows down your console gets hot. Not melting hot, just hot enough to make you mad cause your Soft Drink is watered down from the melting ice <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />