M-tech Illuminated Gear knob

[Des]

The light in my M-tech Illuminated Gear knob has died does anyone know if it can be change and what type of bulb / led it may be? anyone had to do this before to there gear knob?? how did you do it?

Cheers guys for any input even if it is just to flame me for being so vain

[dantheman]

Can't you just pull off the knob and unscrew the bulb?

[Des]

OK here it is, I pulled off my gear knob and there doesn't seem to be any way to get to the bulb / LED but after getting my gearknob leather cover off (gator) I found the problem.
There are 2 cables coming from the gearknob and the brown cable had snapped in two because I imagine it was chaffing, I have now repaired the wire and twisted and enclosed the 2 cables in some sheilding (heat shrink tube) and wrapped it in electrical PVC tape, this should I hope protect the 2 cables from chaffing and breaking. My M-Tech gearknob had only been on the car for about 8 months so it did not take long to chafe and break and I was very careful with the routing of the cables when I installed it, so anybody else who has done this mod it may be worth 1,checking your cables and 2 protecting them as I have so that you do not suffer the same problem.
Not a massive problem but definately one of those bloody annoying ones.