For those of you with the floor shifter would you like to have the leather like the King Ranch/LT?

I have my Ford guy looking into the feasibility of switching out the plain gray looking shifter **** for the King Ranch matching leather ****. Same chrome accents - just where the gray plastic is on the Lariat is color coordinated leather on the KR. He told me the LT has the same leather and has ordered a shifter handle to see what it will take. My price in the new shifter handle (with leather) is going to be in the low $40 dollar range so this could be an easy, inexpensive and high visual impact upgrade......will keep you informed as I find out more info.

 

I bought just the shifter **** (5L3Z-7213-AA for ebony), and it was like $6 my cost. Just haven't gotten around to modifying it to fit.

 

HotLap,

Which dealer?

I'll be very interested in your results.

 

If i was supposed to get a leather **** I am going to be p**sed!! Just kidding--the KR's don't come with a leather shift **** like the LT's do. Although for the price it should have.......

 

Like you paid sticker

 

hmmmmm.......that IS true ..........but I also bought one for my business partner (Copper though), so maybe for buying two KR's I can get the leather shift handle .........but I doubt it.

 

rhyno - I stand corrected - must have been late when I was looking at the '05 brocure.....would've sworn that pic showed a leather shift **** in the KR....thanks for keeping me "right side up"

 

Quintin - do tell - what did you get for the $6.00....just the leather insert or the whole shifter? And can you post a pic of the new part for us?

thx

 

LOL.....no wonder I haven't gotten any response in the King Ranch forums....must be thinking - what's that guy smoking...... :o :o

 

Got the shifter as well ($7) but I have no idea how to retrofit. It was the leather wrapped handle but no trigger. Im just waiting for someone else to post thier experiment, Im way to chicken to try myself.

Later,

Luis S

 

There is an earlier post from someone who did this. He gave a detailed description of what he did with a dremel tool to make it work, and had pics. Can't remember what the name of the thread was.

 

That would be me-

I have had the LT shifter handle on my truck for the past month and a half and love it!!!!

here is the post i started- https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=196206

Black LT leather handle installed in my lariat

 

I heard that the tan leather in the 05 is different than the tan leather in the 04. I have an 05 with tan interior so I'm thinking it should match the LT tan leather right? I also wonder how tan leather would look on that shift ****. I agree that the black leather looks awesome on the shifter...but tan I'm not so sure. Any pics out there of people who did the conversion with a tan leather shifter? Many thanks! 1 to 10 how hard is this mod?

 

The leather in an LT isn't tan, it's kinda cream colored, off-whitish. Doesn't come close to matching tan leather in an F150.

 

I agree the seats don't. But if you look at the picture of the tan interior on the Lincoln.com website you see that the leather on the shifter is a darker tan to match the dash. Which looks the exact same dash color as the 05 f150