I wonder if anyone can help me. I was fitting heated seats today and removed the  centre console trim and the plastic console around the transmission. Whilst pulling it up I accidentally caught the front of the trim under the front edge of the gear knob and it popped stra5 up and off. (I usually remove the transmission trim by taking off the gear knob surround trim feeding it through the whole releasing the wire connectors and leave the gear knob intact) 

I have put the know back on but the push in buttons are not working so I can not shift it out of park. If I take the gear knob off Nd pull up on the stick it will work but not with the knob on. It feels like I am pushing it down as far as it goes but there is no click as if it has returned to the correct place.

Does anyone know how the mechanism works and if so can you give me some pointers on what I am doing wrong?

 

Thanks

For anyone who would like to know. I have worked it out after going to bed and waking up with more patience and  new patient (gear knob injured). 

 

For the Automatic Dsg gear knob removal simple way.

The knob you press in on the side to move the gear selector you need to pull it out further. This will release a little hook mechanism that is in the gear knob under the DSG logo trim part. If you decide to do this I suggest you use a clamp of some type or mole grips with a cloth around the jaws to hold the side button in the open position. This will avoid you having to take the top half of the trim off where it says DSG to expose the hook. When you push the hook across this will make the button come out. Some people may be lucky and just be able to pull the knob straight up and off and then push it back on with the mechanism reseating itself but that would be a fluke. So make sure you keep the button on the open position.

I had to go the long route and took the whole knob apart to see how it worked and broke a little bit that holds on to the shaft in the handle where the clip is but it should still work (just going out to test it)

I think I may still buy a new one now I know how it works of I fancy a different looking one. I may try and pot some pics or a video later