Supra Shifter installed

[m18rus]

What is the advantage to the Supra shifter?

Despite looking as it should of left the factory it removes the 's' on the factory shifter which is misleading & could prove dangerous. On an early journey in mine went for an overtake, knocked it into 'S' and there's no sport mode in the box. It just goes manual....................................

 

[Chadd7]

You just highlighted another practical benefit!

 

[EvilMaddie]

Did mine today. Great tips in this thread. I did use floss to “saw” the adhesive in the BMW shifter. Also, when pulling the cover off the Toyota model, I went through the bottom with an ice pick and there is a tab that releases the whole thing. I was struggling to get my trim tool in there.
Moment of panic when I started the truck and got a “gearbox error” but the ribbon wasn’t seated properly.
Go slow. That ribbon can be pinched when sliding the shifter in. And when pulling the Supra one apart, be mindful of those plastic clips by the parking button.

 

[EvilMaddie]

Did mine today. Great tips in this thread. I did use floss to “saw” the adhesive in the BMW shifter. Also, when pulling the cover off the Toyota model, I went through the bottom with an ice pick and there is a tab that releases the whole thing. I was struggling to get my trim tool in there.
Moment of panic when I started the truck and got a “gearbox error” but the ribbon wasn’t seated properly.
Go slow. That ribbon can be pinched when sliding the shifter in. And when pulling the Supra one apart, be mindful of those plastic clips by the parking button.

 

[EvilMaddie]

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Button to remove BMW button

 

[EvilMaddie]

Button to remove BMW button

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[archerwolf]

Looks way better and works like stock. Pretty easy install. Thanks for all the tips in the thread. Only tools needed are T10 bit and a plastic pry tool. Maybe a heat gun to loosen the stock shifter face.

For both Supra and stock shifter, start prying up the faceplates from the very bottom. Removing the circuit boards makes fishing the flex cable much easier.

 

[Cheshire cat]

I know there is a well established way to carry out this shifter swap however, comments on the attached? Would this method help preserve the original shifter?

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[ziploc_adv]

I know there is a well established way to carry out this shifter swap however, comments on the attached? Would this method help preserve the original shifter?

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There’s a little sleight of hand here. They keep the Supra base covered making it look like it’s an easy drop in. When it’s most likely that they moved the Supra shifter to the IG base.

 

[Asnes]

Supra base does not fit in the grenadier as a drop in because of the odd shaped bezel at the bottom of the shifter. You still need to remove the shift handle.

 

[scottg]

Ideally one could swap out the Grenadier's shifter with the Supra's, entirely, but I don't know if the signals / setup in the Supra shifter is going to send the exact same signals to the Grenadier's ZF. If I do this switch of the handles, I will order a new entire Grenadier shifter to store in case I need to go back to stock in the future.

Anyone have inside knowledge on the Grenadier's ZF? The transmission pan is different than 'standard' -- it has 2 uptake ports, not one, and that's either because of the engine stop/start or it's because the Grenadier ZF disconnects from the engine at stop lights / while coasting / decelerating -- or both? I wanted to replace the pan with an aluminum one, but seems I can't. I've seen pics of BMW pans with the second, smaller uptake port for G20s / mild-hybrids, and pans without the second port, but the pan has the channeling and structure to support the 2nd port, which tells me the second port is really part of the filter that's in the pan, not the pan itself. This smaller 2nd port appears to be there to enable the ZF to snap back into action after one or both of the above events. Or maybe INEOS put it in because it makes the transmission more reliable and longer lived even without the stop/start and/or coast mode. Will post a new thread with complete info when I've been able to confirm certain facts rather than speculation on my part.

 

[Chadd7]

Ideally one could swap out the Grenadier's shifter with the Supra's, entirely, but I don't know if the signals / setup in the Supra shifter is going to send the exact same signals to the Grenadier's ZF. If I do this switch of the handles, I will order a new entire Grenadier shifter to store in case I need to go back to stock in the future.

Anyone have inside knowledge on the Grenadier's ZF? The transmission pan is different than 'standard' -- it has 2 uptake ports, not one, and that's either because of the engine stop/start or it's because the Grenadier ZF disconnects from the engine at stop lights / while coasting / decelerating -- or both? I wanted to replace the pan with an aluminum one, but seems I can't. I've seen pics of BMW pans with the second, smaller uptake port for G20s / mild-hybrids, and pans without the second port, but the pan has the channeling and structure to support the 2nd port, which tells me the second port is really part of the filter that's in the pan, not the pan itself. This smaller 2nd port appears to be there to enable the ZF to snap back into action after one or both of the above events. Or maybe INEOS put it in because it makes the transmission more reliable and longer lived even without the stop/start and/or coast mode. Will post a new thread with complete info when I've been able to confirm certain facts rather than speculation on my part.

I thought someone here already removed the entire trim and installed the Supra shifter base.