Sigma 6 Speed Short Shifter for VW Mk4, Mk5, Mk6, Mk7 and Audi 8J, 8P vehicles equipped with a manual transmission
Featuring an all new 3rd generation re-design for 2024!
There is nothing as important to the feel of your car as what you actually touch. This includes the seats, the steering wheel, and of course, the shifter. Many people have mentioned that installing a Dieselgeek Sigma Shifter should be the first mod added to a new car. In the pursuit to make our own cars the best they can be, we have created the finest short shifter with the best materials, engineering, and craftsmanship to transform the way your car feels and in turn how you feel about it.
Each and every Dieselgeek Sigma Shifter is made to Dieselgeek's exacting specifications and tolerances by a collection of passionate machinists. As always, the Dieselgeek Sigma Shifter is guaranteed as long as you own your car. Country of origin: USA.
Dieselgeek is excited to offer you the best shifter they could possibly make, the Sigma Shifter. Our Sigma Short Shift Kit utilizes an all-aluminum front-to-back cable end with a race-proven steel spherical pivot bearing. Lesser shifters use a stock Audi/VW rubber insulated cable end which is optimized for economically assembling the car at the factory.
The side-to-side cable end is fortified with our Perfect Pivot bushings. The factory glass reinforced composite cable end body is ideal for the lightly loaded side-to-side cable. By using a performance modified stock cable end, the super slick adjustment function is retained. This makes adjustment, or readjustment, a breeze! The Delrin Perfect Pivot inserts do not have any free play which means they only rotate on our precision cable end pin. They do not flex side to side and will transfer motion without any losses.
Since the OEM cable ends have rubber damping parts and large tolerances, the shifter feel of all other shifters is nowhere near as solid or precise as our finest work, the Sigma Shifter. With the addition of our Sigma Shifter your car's shift mechanism will no longer feel like a cable-operated shifter, but more like a solid lever shifter from a high-performance rear wheel drive car. We designed the Sigma Shifter cable ends in the pursuit of shifting excellence and we succeeded! Getting the rubber out of the linkage has an unexpected and profound effect on shifter feel. The action becomes light yet very positive, giving your vehicle a precision feel that no other shifter can match.
The other difference between the Dieselgeek Sigma shifter and the competition is that our shifter is equipped with our Dieselgeek Slider. The Slider mates the front to back assembly with the side to side bell crank and controls left to right gate selection. We selected a very precise, long-lasting, self-lubricating structural plastic material guaranteed to last as long as your car. The cheaper factory white sliding piece found on all other short shift kits have large tolerances built in and is made of a plastic that will deteriorate rapidly with heavy use. This makes all other shifters less and less precise as time progresses. We have eliminated shifter degradation permanently with the Dieselgeek Slider. The performance difference can be felt on the very first 2-3 gear shift you make. You will love it!
Installation is most certainly a do-it-yourself mod for those of you who do not mind getting a little dirty. Every shifter can be installed easily within one hour. All parts are installed top-side in the engine bay. Call it an automotive bonding experience!
Dieselgeek Sigma 6 shifters fit on the following cars with an 02M, 02Q, or MQ350 transmission:
- 2012-2020 VW Mk6, Mk7, Mk7.5 Golf R
- 2015-2020 VW Mk7, Mk7.5 GTI
- 2007-2020 VW Mk5, Mk6 Golf and Jetta TDI
- 2009-2019 VW Mk5, Mk6, Mk7 Jetta Sportwagen TDI, Golf Sportwagen TDI and 1.8T gas (6 speed only)
- 2017-2019 VW Mk7 Golf Alltrack
- 2006-2020 VW Mk5, Mk6, MK7 GTI, GTD, and Jetta GLI
- 2004/2008 VW Mk4 R32 & Mk5 R32
- 2008-2017 VW B6 CC
- 2012-2020 VW NMS (B7) Passat TDI
- 2006-2016 VW Eos
- 2000-2020 Audi A3, S3 6spd
- 2002-2005 VW GTI 337/20th Anniversary Edition/24V VR6
- 2003-2005 VW Mk4 Jetta GLI 1.8T/VR6 & GLX 24V VR6
- 2002-2005 VW New Beetle "Turbo S"
- 2012-2018 VW Beetle Turbo and TDI
- All years Audi TT Quattro (5 and 6 spd) and TTS
Note for all pre-2009 vehicles: Most vehicles produced before 2009 use a different shifter cable end link than later vehicles. The Sigma 6 will not install properly to vehicles with this early cable end link. We have added an option above to add the correct shifter cable end link (OEM part number 1J0711761B) to your order.
Installation Instructions:
This video is not part of the installation process, but is highly recommended for optimum shifting.