- My model of MX-5 is: mx5NA 1.8is
- I’m based near: Newcastle
- I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on: Gearknobs
I when I bought the car it had an alloy knob the size of a tennis ball. I duly paid my money for an original NA plastic moulded knob. However, it looks too thin and from pictures I see of good 1.8is interiors it doesn’t taper up from the base enough. It’s as it it’s too thin in the palm of my hand.
I want what came with the car. Does anyone know if the gear knob of the 97 1.8is changed at all from early cars or otherwise what’s the most authentic one late model U.K. market mx5 owners have found? I may be getting it wrong and what I have for the car is correct.
That’s a Mk2 gear knob. The Mk1 gearknob was a bit flatter on top, but more or less the same dimensions. NLA new. Same gear knob from 1989-1997.
Factory original
Indeed but mx5 parts sell it as the Mazda one for the NA and NB. My picture is from mx5 parts.
Do you know who, if anyone, sells the NA one you show in your picture?
Breakers I guess. NLA; no longer available. Or the multistory scrapyard, for those with a nickname “Fingers”.
The knob sold by MX5parts fits the NA fine. It has a similar feel, if I recall, from origin.
The part number was M515-17-520. I think it was superceded by the NB part two decades ago.
If its about feel, the NB part suffices. If its about looks, and you want brand new, you are SOOL.
Don’t like what’s turned out to be my NB one. I’m very irrational about it albeit it’s the part of the car I touch second most after the airbag wheel which I’ve gone to some lengths to restore.
eBay it is.
