Blinker/Signal/Headlight stalk differences

[nizam]

Hi all -

I ordered a 155 headlight stalk to replace the one in the car. Upon receiving it, I immediately installed it only to find the stalk sits less than half an inch from the steering wheel.

"That can't be right," I thought.

So I pulled it back out and compared the old one out of the car and the new one. Turns out the stalk themselves were different.

My 155Q4 is an early production (1993) with no immobilizer and no airbag. Could it be that the stalks are angled differently for the cars that came with airbags? That seems to be the most plausible explanation I could come up with, to make up for the difference in stalk angle.

See pics below. Aligned alongside each other, the newer stalk is in the background:

155sw1.jpg


From the top, the newer one is on the right:
155sw2.jpg

So here's the question: where would I buy, and how would I specify, the older NOS stalk?