Recent content by dpstrand

Is anyone willing to share any recent deals they have negotiated on a new cx-9?

I'm in the market for a CX-9, hoping to get a good price due to the upcoming redesign. I know there is currently a $4000 incentive that expires in a week or so (9/8/15). Curious if it will be extended, improved, or expire? Some of the truecar and autopriceshare deals look to be under $30k for a...

Double check phase. Just reverse + and - on one of them and give it a test listen. Sounds like an out of phase problem to me.

If it can not be modified, is there any particularly effective shifting technique that anyone can share to make shifting smoother around town or at moderate pace (i.e. not flat out)? I find 1->2 is sometimes (often) rough for me.

Its not a magnet holding it in place in that video, its just that little tab.

Is there another capacitor hiding somewhere along the wiring up to the tweeter? I just removed my stock tweeters and they only have a 1 uF capacitor on them. For the 4 ohm speaker that would put the high pass frequency at 40 kHz, which obviously doesn't make sense.

I went ahead and bought some of these tweeters and some inductors and caps, I'm going to do this on my 2009 non-bose. I'll post results either this weekend or next after I'm finished.

I keep hearing that replacing at least the rear motor mount is a wonderful thing to do, but it's always accompanied with a vibrating rear view mirror. Are there any motor mounts that are an improvement compared to the factory MM but without mirror vibration or excess cabin vibration/noise...

The first time I gave a couple friends a ride in my ms3 they we're impressed by it's power but laughed at the loud stock deceleration drone. We are all in our mid 30s now, and the loud drone upon throttle lift off reminds us of our younger years with loud but slow cars. Fortunately, the ms3 is...

If this mod is done at the same time as the tinfoil hat mod you get incredible improvement, make sure to use 8 guage wire and 6 guage tinfoil.

I got an 09 sport for $19,856 + TTL, which I believe is an excellent deal based on my negotiations with several dealerships.