[mjr24]

Hopefully in the process of exchanging this. Emailed IND pics and he said that it definitely seemed lower than what's normally seen. However, they gave me grief about chipping the carbon fiber and said they could not return this to BMW and that I should have sent it to them without removing the top piece.

I replied back that the shifter was already on the car and the top piece was the last part that you put on when reattaching. I had no way of knowing there was going to be a gap until I installed the top part.....and there was no way to take the shifter back off (because the screw is under that top part with the M emblem) unless I removed that top part. The only reason the CF got damaged was because I had to dig so much further down than normal in order to pry that top part off (my old shifter came off mint....the top part and shifter...this wasn't user error in damaging the CF).

I fully understand this isn't an IND part but they need to press their BMW rep to exchange it because the part was defective. Anyways, I sent it back today....we shall see what they do.