ok..so i live in texas , my ITR is black , it gets hella hot inside the car, and i swear that shift **** has burned my hand good....cant even touch it to shift...i know other peeps must have this problem, but what do ya doo about it....i've tried using a sock, even put the ashtray on top of it...but its still to f*ckin hot.....

 

Why don't you put a condom over it?

Seems like it'd work.

EDIT:

Have you ever tried to keep it cool rather than trying to keep it from burning your hand?


[Modified by Reid, 11:20 AM 8/9/2002]

 

i burned my hadn the other day on it . i drive with gloves sometiems, but when its really hot out and i dont have ac, it gets kinda nasty driving with gloves.

 

Throw a hat over it when you get out of the car...

 

LOL....a sock, kinda reminds of of that scene in American Pie

 

Thats what i do! Though it still gets up there in temperature, at least i can shift without getting burned.

 

That's why metal shift ***** are a ******* idiotic idea. *thanks Honda *

Just replace it with a GSR or 97-98 ITR ****.

 

koo...i didnt think about a hat...i'll try that

 

i love my metal ****, i just dont liek when my hand gets oWneD by it

 

I just cover mine with a baseball cap. It works good enough for me.

 

Anyone try the SPOON socks/covers? It should be better.

 

i have a handtowel i toss over it when it sits in the sun...and if its still hot to the touch even after being covered....i just shift with the towel still on it, works fine.

 

When I had my black R, it would come close to branding the shift pattern in my palm, and I was thinking up some dinky little shift **** sleeve, with some aluminized thermal reflective foil beneath a piece of cloth like the seat cloth on the bolsters...I like the way that stuff feels. but I think someone already makes something like that...

 

use an ankle sock

 

tsunami_zc - the best one to use is <u>Oakley</u> <u>softee</u> <u>suglass</u> <u>sock</u> thingie. It's just the right length and it doesn't heat up that badly being it's soft synthetic material.

 

Bag from a pint bottle of Crown Royal


Pat, who used to have to shift with a ball cap on the **** before he did that...

 

i have a towel in the car if it is to hot. or i usually have a sunshade up in the window. and with the other windows being tinted its not bad.

 

Get A skunk 2 shift **** it doesn't get as hot as the type-r ones...

 

metal shift ***** suck

 

Someone once told me at an autocross to make a little aluminum foil wrap the size of the *** and place over it when the sun was out - they said it would reflect the sun and keep the heat off. I haven't tried this myself, but would be curious as to it working or not...

-Ben, who parks his car in the shade all day at work

 

d00d...window tint 0wnz

 

i have one of those sun visor things. it helps the **** from gettin exteremly hottt.. but the **** is still a little warm.. it does help though

it gets hot in louisiana

 

Yeah, my hand got owned by my shift **** one time I went to a IMSTAR drag racing event. Luckily it was so hot outside my shirt was already off and provided protection on it. ..had to switch the shirt from the shifter to the steering wheel for about 10 mins straight. It seriously hurt like hell. A member here's interior got melted that day. Heat = Heat + Cold =

 

I keep a car towel in my car to throw over it on hot days. It still gets hot though. Really the only thing is get a different shift ****. It gets exceptionally cold too, when the weather conditions are right.

Edit: I also have nearly burned my hand on it.


[Modified by SoCal ITR, 3:14 PM 8/9/2002]

 

yes, i keep an extra t shirt in my car to throw over the ****. yea not having tinted windows during the summer sux. even with a sun shield in my car, and the shirt over the ****, it still gets too hot to shift. yea by the time it gets cool , im already at my destination. thats florida for you. sometimes it gets too hot in my car. i turn it on and turn on the a/c and wait for it to cool. hotter in the car than outside.