ICBEAMER100% Real Carbon Fiber Shift Knob Red LED Light Top Glow, Fit Buttonless Automatic & 4, 5, 6 Speed Manual Transmission Interior Car Gear Lever Stick Shift Racing Style [Battery Included]

I have read many of the negative reviews and they don't hold water if you know what to do.1) The little plastic plate is not a snap to fit piece so it's loose even when assembled, probably gonna glue it.If you follow the graphic instructions, I wish they would use a few words, it shows to disassemble the top of the knob to install the gear shift pattern into the clear plastic piece. Mine came with a couple pieces of clear circular double sided tape to hold down the gear shift pattern piece. I tried to do this with the knob all assembled, its difficult, and I didn't succeed. You have to disassemble, take the clear piece, put in the clear circular tape, then the correct gear shift pattern piece, and press hard to get it to snap in place. DON'T LOOSE the little spring that goes over the long black rod protruding from the switch. BEFORE reassembling, read 2).2) The second problem is that the gears bezel moves (sic rotates) all over the place while shifting so don't expect to have the gear diagram pointing correctly every time, annoying.My earlier input but wrong, but included for history sake: Before reassembling, I used a small dap of Silicon Adhesive into the little hole in the back of the clear piece. This adhesive should not dry real hard, and allow disassembly later if need be. But it should dry hard enough to keep the gear shift pattern bezel from rotating. {edit: Nope this does not help as that shaft to glue the clear plastic piece rotates, I thought it didn't. I did put a piece of double stick tape to the bottom on of the knob, so the battery would stick to it, and the whole electronics board not rotate, but that doesn't seem to help either.}{edit 2 If you look at inside of the top of the gear shift, there is a grove that runs up and down (vertical) that the clear plastic piece is suppose to have a protrusion to fit into to keep it from rotating, but that piece is too small to fit the groove. I am going to try gluing a piece to the clear plastic piece to fit the groove {edit 3, which I did. See image 1 of the groove in the knob. Use Dremel bit to remove little nit on the clear plastic piece, see image 2, and red arrow. See image 3 for the groove made with a 1/8" dremel bit, DON'T go all the way to the top through the lip, near the gear shift pattern like I did. Cut a nail, ~ 1/8" diameter to ~ 5 mm in length, does not have to be exact, image 4, and glue to the grove in the clear plastic part you just made, near the top, or the lip of the clear plastic piece, see image 5. Now place the clear plastic piece in the top of knob aligning nail with groove in knob, place electronic board in WITH spring on the tall black knob that sticks up, and then screw in rest of knob.}3) Lastly, they could have done better de-burring on the top holes, sharp edges on palm.Yep, I find this true also. I took a 1/4" (6 mm) drill and by hand removed the sharp edge. {edit} Also try deburring the holes for the two screws to fit the knob onto the gear shift shaft.4) The light died on it about a week or two and I wasn't using the light, slowly drained the batteries without use.This I have to blame on user error. Mine was ordered and shipped way before Christmas and I just now (January 22) installed. The batteries are not dead, and on Christmas day I did try turning them on. You just have to look at it to determine if it's off before leaving the vehicle. The unit has three modes: off, on, and slow blink, just don't leave it on slow blink thinking it's off. So in daylight (why have it on in daylight?) you have to look to make sure its not in the slow blink mode, just wait 5 seconds to make sure. Because of this I recommend to just using the on mode, then you don't have a problem knowing if it been left on. I guess you could always wire it to the 12 V of the vehicle.{edit} The metal piece that holds the batteries, one arm on mine came un-soldered, thus it not working. I had to re-solder it.5) you have no way of changing out the batteries on it, which sucksJust unscrew the top of the knob, the batteries are on the back side of the electronic board.6) I didn't see this mentioned, but I read only a few reviews. I have a manual shift 1988 Ford Ranger. The shift shaft for this truck is ~15 mm diameter, and the hole in the bottom of the knob, no insert, is like only 13 mm.This is easily solved with a new technology called a drill. Just make sure to back out the screws that tighten the knob to the shift shaft so they won't be hit by the drill (don't loose them if you remove them). Drill at least 2 mm below the holes for these screws. Put on knob, put in the screws and tighten them. FYI, for the Ranger the drill should be 19/32. If you can't find that, 5/8 works just fine, just use masking tape around the shift shaft to make it 5/8" diameter.I love my "brushed aluminum - fully illuminated - genuine - accessory shift knob"! (C. W. McCall, Wolf Creek Pass, written by Bill Fries, Chip Davis)Note oil jug on floor in next to last last photo, "Her shaft is bent and her rear end leaks, you can fix her quick with an oily rag. Use a nail as a starter; I lost the key. Don't pay no mind to that whirrin' sound. She use a little oil, but outside a' that, she's cherry." C.W. McCall, Classified, also written by Bill Fries, Chip Davis)P.S. She really doesn't drink that much oil, I had just today put in a 1/2 qt after 6 months, and she's been my wife's and I only transportation since Oct 31.

The look of it is nice. The batteries don't last very long with it and although it fits on my shifter I can easily slide it up off it. Wish they had it threaded to screw onto my shifter.

Looks good in my car, would get 5 stars if it didn’t have missing pieces, they left out 2 of the plastic circles that go in the gear shift knob, so that’s super annoying but it’s alright gear shift knob otherwise

I like the way it looks and feels but what I don't like is that they didn't send me the face plate I needed and when I emailed them about it I never got a response

Its a great product and works great, not super easy to install but that's most manual sticks. The only thing I have an issue with is the button to turn on the light is very low quality and is easy to break.

This made my old Honda look SO much better inside. Everyone notices it. High quality. Very high quality.

I wanted a carbon fiber shift knob and this one looks great and install was easy. Only for the price you'd expect a better product out of the box and here's why.The metal shavings still inside the knob from the threads being cut, this was annoying to remove and on cheaper knobs this has never been an issue.The light died on it about a week or two and I wasn't using the light, slowly drained the batteries without use. The 2032 batteries it uses are not cheap either.The little plastic plate is not a snap to fit piece so it's loose even when assembled, probably gonna glue it.Once you correct these issues the knob is fantastic, just wish the factory that made these made the knob a little easier to assemble, it's easy to get the light off center from the plastic clip.

Good quality for the most part. Wish the light up button (which displays the gears) didn't move as much.