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Yeah I'd tend to agree the shifter "may" be worn out. That's all I can gather because the description of what's going on is totally whacked (don't try to describe it again, it only makes it worse), as is the habit of shifting it to neutral on the stops, and I see no connection to "big guy" with doing this. If you got something going on in traffic and you have to move "like right now" here you are stabbing it into drive to get it going. Plus then you say you just do this "on the level", so I suppose you are guessing it's level enough you aren't going to roll away if you aren't paying attention. What if you get rear ended? Might be nice to have a little extra rolling resistance (I assume you are taking your foot off the brake and this is the advantage to putting it in neutral, this is the only possible connection I can make to doing this and you being a big guy). Also then you're sitting there without the brake lights on at a stop light, sometime people coming up behind you LIKE to know if you have the brakes applied, that's why the lights are there.
The trim on the bottom of the seat, usually it breaks off at the rear and can't really be repaired to any grade of dependablity. You can replace just the broken side though. Tough part is up front where it engages into the front piece. Usually it's a better repair to remove the seat and remove all 3 sides of the trim to be able to engage the side trim to the front.
If they broke the tabs off of the trim around the shifter (the black piece of trim) you can get that seperately.
Another possible problem based on "what I can decipher" from your shifter ramblings is that maybe a bushing on the shifter rod is worn out? That could be caused by you tormenting your shifter as you've described. Knock it off!
Gilly
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