It's a drizzly and rainy day here, so I'm cleaning some of the junk out of the garage and playing some of my old favorite 33 LPs on the garage phono and stereo system - that way the wife can't complain about my taste in music or the fact I'm so hard of hearing. In an old box in the corner of the garage I stumbled across an old tube of "Hurst Competition Shifter Linkage Lube" that must be 40 years old and still hasn't had the end snipped off. Does BMW even recommend lubing the shift linkage?