Got my invoice back from the shop. $3500, incl 200 for the battery, to be deducted when I bring mine back for warranty repair... Except it's out of warranty. I wanted to save for a decent lithium battery, but I don't really think I can afford more than $400 right now. I'm gonna keep researching it, hopefully I can find something I like for less.
Shop also forgot to torque my axles to the transmission-axle flange. Maybe also the axle nut, but I didn't have the tools to check that. 750 miles on hand-tightened axles. I'm going to have them recheck all the hardware I asked them to torque to spec. That's the axles and all rear suspension (toe arm, rear trailing arm, lower control arm, and upper control arm, specifically), some of which I had already done. The axles also need to be repaired at the least, if not replaced, as I only noticed when I saw all the axle grease splatter (which I'm also going to ask them to clean).
Also I broke the thread off the transmission shift tower because I'm really stupid so now that's $450 + labor, and I have to be very gentle going side to side (no more wiggles to make sure I'm in neutral
![Fearful face :fearful: 😨](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f628.png)
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Installed the ECS panzer plate, tightened the shifter cables up and fixed my driver side-marker. Have to figure out what's up with my fog lights, should be bad plugs. Passenger side-marker has a missing terminal and is corroded.
I think I'll commit next weekend to replacing some necessary plugs: throttle sensor, coils, fog lights, side marker, MAF sensor, and whatever plug is causing my car to say it has no oil. RR wheel speed sensor, too.