Thread: OEM Shift knob discussion (NLA or not?)

i just found 4 different usa sites selling this for $60usd. glws.

Just because it's on a website, doesn't mean it's available. I checked with my parts guy and it's NLA (no longer available) from Nissan. So unless a dealer just happens to have has one stashed away, good luck finding one.

C

I bought a new one a few months ago.

From who Kyle?

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From who Kyle?

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From who Kyle?

From Nissan dealership.... it was not stashed away, it was ordered and came in.

Confirmed they are no longer available as previously suggested.

I bought mine about nine months ago and installed it in the spring after I removed the car cover.

I may have received one of the last ones that was actually brand new and available from Nissan.... sorry if I was misleading or giving Chris and Mark some false hope.

Yeah, I figured you got lucky. As I said in my initial post, there's always the possibility of a dealer having one in back stock, but I checked with my Nissan parts guy before posting (he's an OG long time B13 owner), and he told me they're NLA.

C

The only problem with that is, once they go into a dealer, they are lost as far as Nissan parts guys can look. They can do requests and if inventory has been done correctly and they are hooked into the new network, they can see parts. But there is always the chance of parts sitting in rooms and warehouses just laying stagnant.

A few months ago I saw on ebay were 91-92 SE-R front and rear seat skins, brand new OEM style. I know of another member that works at a Nissan dealer that happened to find brand new, OEM NX floor mats laying around. It can happen so not all hope is lost, but man you have to be in the right place at the right time. It is hard to find OEM parts and gets worse every day.

A few years back I walked into a Nissan dealer on Long Island, and they had a set of SE-R fog light covers (the ones we all want, with the SENTRA logo) sitting on a display behind the counter. When I asked about them he said they 'found' them in the back but couldn't sell them because they weren't in the system. I even offered him cash, but he wasn't interested.

C

They are not in the system because they have no part numbers, they are accessories ordered by dealers when the cars were sold. That is silly he could not "sell" them because a simple authorization through the manager hierarchy should allow such a transaction.

That is a shame you could not get them. I have some with NISSAN written on them but that is far more standard than SENTRA.