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hi guys....after i did a 1500 miles with my new s3, went to my local tuner for the spacers and...they had a Forge CAI for s3...so i couldn't resist and i took it, and i'm glad i couldn't resist. the sound is sooo addictive. and then while they were working on it i thought i could try a quick shifter+side2side while the cai isn't mounted yet, after shifting throught gears i decided to go for, think that it should be made in factory like that not like all the rest six gear transmitions. and at the end i got my self what i was looking for, 12mm spacer at the back.
it was a expensive day but the drive home was great...

 

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Nice one!

How much is the short shifter fitted? I miss the short shift on my old CTR!

 

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Nice one!

How much is the short shifter fitted? I miss the short shift on my old CTR!

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i'm not from UK
i paid for it about 200-220€. i like it. it gives you that little race car feeling.

 

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Another one to add to the list I guess.....!

 

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Be carefull with the forge short shifters Staz, i have had nothing but trouble with mine and am actually waiting for an uprgraded one to be made by forge as we speak! They told me it would be 2 weeks about 3 months ago, ok they sent me a spare oem shifter but im running out of patience now. Just hope they look after me when they finally get the new one made otherwise i wont buy a forge product again!!

 

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Loved the short shifter on my S3, was great & took about 40-45% of the sway of.

 

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Mine did Nige then the slider would fall out of the end of the linkage and id be stuck with no gears!!!

 

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lol not laughing at you mate just funny how this kinda makes me think of the Twintake thread where everyone's swearing blind over forge products being so good & then you read this, just goes to show huh even if I do think they do good products, there's always a chink in the armour.

 

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Hmm ok no heard anything about the shifter at all before now. Not sure I want the risk!

I don't have any experience with Forge but their rep on here doesn't fill me with confidence!

 

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i didn't hear anyone had problems with shortshifter. will see, if anything happens i'm taking it of. last thing i want to be at the midle of nowhere without being able to shift. but when they fitted mine, i saw that the original side to side shifter is made out of plastic!?!!? why?

 

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