Burlwood is cracking

[Gooch]

The wood on my 2 front doors is full of cracks. Today I get in the car and find the wood around my stick shift is cracked. Anyone else having this problem?

[DueyT]

I have a slight crack around the shifter boot and a small crack on the trigger of my Getrag 6-shooter!

Cheers,
Duey

[kiNGMak]

my shifter wood is cracked.. alot

[KenB]

The wood on my 2 front doors is full of cracks. Today I get in the car and find the wood around my stick shift is cracked. Anyone else having this problem?

The wood trim on my drivers door is cracked also. Anyone know how to fix it?

[AllanS]

ditto on that

[G Feller]

Although cracked, it still holds together fine. I figure my only options are ordering expensive factory replacement or making it myself (I know one or two on the board have done this or are thinking about doing it).

I think one issue here is that as hard as we try, very few of us will be able to keep our cars (the youngest of which are 10 years old) looking perfect indefinitely. I for one won't mind having a few faults in my 25-year-old daily driver, especially since I know that even in 2019 it will still keep pace with or beat most everything on the road, and it will still look good.

ditto on that

[scott540]

I heard my shifter knob crack when it did it. POP. freaked me out

[Jason]

My grandfather, who is a pretty experienced woodworker, thinks it would be tough to sand it down and get a finish as good as what the factory did so i should just leave it alone.. any thoughts?

[Hector]

I'm finally able to use some play money to buy a burlwood shift knob and now I find out it cracks. Anyone know what the lifetime is?

The wood on my 2 front doors is full of cracks. Today I get in the car and find the wood around my stick shift is cracked. Anyone else having this problem?

[Jon K]

I'm finally able to use some play money to buy a burlwood shift knob and now I find out it cracks. Anyone know what the lifetime is?

~10 years??