Replacing DSG gear knob on an R36?

[Horace01]

........ Then lift the boot up over the head of the gear knob. You will see a plastic sleeve - push / pull this and the gear knob will come free.

I had completely forgotten about this. Good call.

To piggyback off this. My DSG surround at the bottom seems to have a few clips broken/loose so that when I change from Park, the front of it lifts and won't clip back down. Anyone know where I can find a right hand drive replacement? Possibly not in chrome...

I could not find a RHD replacement for mine so just used a couple of spots of plastic glue to hold it in place. Plastic glue is pretty weak so if you need to remove the surround again its pretty easy to break the glue spot without causing any other damage.

Ok, so I made an attempt at replacing my DGS knob yesterday and ended up giving up. I could remove the entire knob with the boot without issue, but the actual method of removing the knob from the boot had me stumped. The replacement knob I have is all I could find which is a B7 DSG knob (so less rounded) but it has a different mechanism internally (it has a large red plastic part hanging down that my R36 model does not. So my idea was to just change the actual known onto the existing shaft - and this is where (on both the original and the replacement) I found it impossible with actually remove the knob from the boot. Anyone ever done this?

The red piece of plastic is only there to stop the button from being accidentally pushed in whilst in transit. You need to remove it before fitting your knob to you existing shaft (no pun intended).

Removing the boot from the knob is a PITA. I used a small screw driver to manipulate the plastic outer piece off. I did this to my existing boot first as I was replacing it with a leather, red stitched one. The clip stretched but was still usable. I have heard of guys just cutting the clip off and using a zip tie to hold the boot on instead.