Originally Posted by NWGACarGuy

I want to make it clear that I did NOT use profanity or vulgar language where the four asterisks **** appear in my post. I did NOT put them there, and the word that was apparently censored is a common term for the item that is installed at the top of a stick shift and grasped by the hand to move the shifter. I guess in someone's vernacular it is considered a "bad word", but I can't imagine why or how it could possibly be misconstrued in my post. Perhaps this is AI hard at work improving the quality of our lives through technology? At any rate, the "you know what" that I am swapping out will hopefully improve the shifting!