For the record
There’s been some concern expressed that perhaps a paper clip isn’t engineered to quite the right tolerances for use in a car.
Although it did the trick, the only stress on it is what comes from your arm via the gear stick, I have replaced the paper clip with an aircraft-grade Titanium split pin. For a total cost of $3. And I had to by 20, so if you need one let me know.
Posted by mike on Wednesday July 13th, 2005