Rear sway bar (RSB) upgrade

Another improvement made to this vehicle is an upgrade of the rear sway bar. I do not recall our factory RSB size, I believe it is a 17mm?

Shared chassis is always a great thing because I was able to choose rear sway bars from TSX, TL, and TLX. OEM means more economical and more accessible as well.

The final decision was to go with the 25.4mm from the TLX v6 and the part number is 52300-TZ3-A51 and bushings (x2) 52306-TZ3-A01. Factory endlinks and bushing brackets can be reused. 

This setup greatly neutralizes the vehicle and does induce oversteer at hard turns, allowing for more dynamic driving compared to factory's understeer biased configuration.

I do not have pics of the installed product but the following is a picture of it waiting to be installed.

JDM hazard switch swap

My tinkering itch got the best of me so I went and bought a JDM red hazard switch to change things up a bit for my interior.  The part number is 35510T2AJ01 and it came from Thailand.  I really like the colour contrast it brings to the center stack.

I've followed the instruction in the following YouTube video:

And the end product:

Night shot, showing the red glow

Bright red button... ohh ya!

Transmission slips

After owning my car for ~2 years, the first problem had come up.  It has to do with the transmission (this brings back good old memory from my 7th gen V6).  The symptom is heavy jolting at gear shift during acceleration.

I've made a video of it here:

Often times, the problem would go away if I restart the vehicle but would come back in a few days or so.  I do long commutes to work everyday so I have plenty of opportunities to run experiments.  I have tried various combination of ECO mode, sports mode, none seems to trigger it or remedy the problem while it was happening.  It was not temperature dependent or did it have anything to do with driving style.

I eventually caught a break, with the problem going on and off for a few months, the car finally decided to throw a code.  Unfortunately, I did not take a photo and it has been too long that I no longer remember what's exactly being thrown at the dash.

Nonetheless, the problem has to do with the 3rd gear pressure switch malfunctioning.  I got it replaced under warranty and it turns out to be the root cause of the transmission slip/jolt.