A few more things done, coolant reservoir and centre speaker located Carplay multimedia unit.
The 27mm rear sway bar is a fantastic upgrade with very noticeable corning improvements particularly with helping reduce understeer and greatly reduced body roll. Whilst the overall stifeness of the car has increased significantly the increase in harshness is very mild which i was very suprised at.
Next on the cards is new inner and outer tie rods and front endlinks.
Coolant Reservoir:
Shift Blind:
Was broken in many pieces and found bonus $2.50.
CarPlay Navigation unit:
Experienced alot of issues with installtion of this one, product arrived with no instructions, took me a while to figure out the unit needed seperate ACC switch to turn on/off but was advertisded as plug and play. Hard wired into cig lighter and had to extend the cable to reach. The suppied AUX 3.5mm to L/R RCA male was too short and tricky to route through had to drill hole through the rear storage compartment, drink retrackable cover, handbrake, riun along side the tranmission shifter and up through the waterfall console only to find cable too short so had to redo with a new spare i had on hand (1.5m length).
The centre housing moulding just had X 4 slotted spike feet that sit in the grooves with no screw hole into original centre speaker so had to use generous amount of doubled sided 3M tape. Got there in the just need sort out the 3.5mm female connector as the cable when fully seated only has sound coming from the left or right you have to only insert it slightly for the L/R channels to work but because its loose will cut in and whilst driving hopefully i can fix with just a new male to female adaptor or might change to a new original 3.5mm input jack.
Overall though its been worth the setbacks, the sound quality is much improved, you can essentially run any android app on in it and obviously modernises the driving experience, this unit also accepts the 360 degree birds eye view camera input so might be a future option.
One other thing just remembered only the volume control works on the steering wheel so to skip tracks have to use Siri or control via the unit which is not a huge deal, there is steering programming learning control app but it doesn't work, might have to buy a CANBUS unit but not sure if can be bothered.
