JXB Performance - Billet Shifter Mounting Plate - Audi B8/8.5

Audi B8/B.5 Billet Shifter Mounting Plate (B8012A0)

Take your 1-2 shift to the next level.  

• Prevents 2nd gear lockout
• Drastically reduces slop and flex in shifter
• Works with all shifters that retain the OEM shifter mounting plate

The factory mounting plate that holds the shifter to the body of the car is made of flimsy plastic with a layer of sound-deadening foam between it and the vehicle’s center tunnel. The slider bushings between the plate and the shifter housing are made of soft flexible rubber with tons of slop that gets worse with age. During “enthusiastic” 1-2 shifting, it’s easy to put enough side load on the shift lever to compress the bushings and cause the OEM plate to flex, allowing the shift linkage to get hung up in the reverse track in the transmission. This causes that “sticky” spot you feel between first and second that often causes missed shifts and lost races. Shifter housing wear can add to this as well. No other shifter addresses this problem.

Not only does the JXB Billet Shifter Mounting Plate eliminate this issue, it gives an extremely solid feel to your shifter. The edges of the pattern are no longer soft, but make a solid thud, telling you you’ve arrived at the next gear.

Before you assume your missed shifts are due to user error, wearing synchros, or other transmission issues, go out to your car and do this experiment:

1. With the car off, parking brake applied, and foot off the clutch, with little force applied, shift from 1st-2nd a number of times.
2. Apply additional leftward force towards the reverse gear.  Increase the force until the shifter starts getting caught in the middle going 1 —> 2.  Try both fast and slow shifts.
3. If this is the sensation you feel when you miss a shift, then the JXB Billet Shifter Mounting Plate is the solution.  You don’t suck at shifting, your shifter does.

Installation is a breeze and is done entirely from the driver seat with most shifters.  The following video in the pictures section features all of our shifter upgrades.  Skip to:

• 4:01 for disassembly
• 8:00 for Shifter Mounting Plate install
• 19:47 for linkage adjustment (if you need/want to; disconnecting linkage is not required for install)
• 24:11 for reassembly

All items are dispatched direct from JXB Performance headquarters. Normally there are no delays to delivery due to stock issues but as we do not hold physical stock of this item we suggest contacting us via email or our website contact form prior to ordering so that we can check stock at the JXB Performance warehouse.

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