Silver on VRS gearstick

[PSM]

I just noticed today that the silver on the top of my Mk2 VRS (56 reg) gearstick appears to be wearing through. Instead of being solid silver it has a black mottled speck appearance too it. Is anyone else having a similar problem? and should it be covered by the warranty?

[uncle bulgaria]

Yeah same here! I'm not sure that it "wearing through" though, I think it could be in-grained grime. Going to have a propper go at cleaning it this weekend! Then we will see whats what!!

[Taxi 219]

There is an old thread on here about that problem too,but it would be covered under warranty i would have thought also.

[Mater]

i just had mine changed a couple of weeks ago under warranty. Just pop in to your skoda dealear. Takes around 2 days to get part then 5 min job to swap

HTH

Carl

[SilveRS]

Had the chrome on my previous elegance gearstick wear like this. It got replaced under warranty just before it expired. I don't think liked cement and sweat very much!

[Tomo1971]

On my old car that had a similar gear knob it was starting to go but I put it down to my wedding ring scraping on it......... as its titanium I guess it would be a little harder than the plastic pf the gear knob.... I try to take more care now.

Steve

[PSM]

Cheers for the comments. Will have to pop into the dealer sometime. I tried cleaning mine the other day with no sucess.