Frustrated with my 2011 Mustang V6

Warranty I know, but sounds like you would benefit from 1 of 3 mods for your acceleration issues.

Gears upgrade 3.31 or 3.73 ($500 installed) if you have the spare cash CFM has a super deal on a Aluminum DS and gears.

Or Tune to change shift points ($380 from American Muscle)

Or lastly maybe the safer one is a Cold Air Intake ($269ish)

I think a pick of one of those will help open her up pretty good. The sound from my shaker500 is decent, but not an audiophile system IMO. Just upgrade it later would be my input on that. I have a MT so I cant speak for how yours feels. But I hope they fix the overheating for ya quick! Goodluck!
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Auto trans is not an issue. Just the factory tune. Once you learn how to properly shift it in D mode (using the throttle) it will not be a problem. You can also reset the cars adaptive shifting, so it erases it's pre stored settings where it recognized you were driving slowly and economically. Pull the negative terminal on the battery, wait 15 minutes. Connect it back, and turn the car on. Drive it hard, using full throttle so the transmission will adapt to your new, aggressive driving style.

I've thought about getting a cold air intake. I will try the battery thing when I get my car back. Also, I don't know how to find out if I have 2.73 or 3.31.

As for it being worth the wait it might not if they can't find anything wrong.. or so they say. I swear they are lazy. They always act like there is nothing wrong with any car that comes through there

Overheating is not too complicated an issue to diagnose......water pump, thermostat, or a leak are the only culprits. Thermostats don't always seize in the fully open or closed position....it may have seized up partially open. What are your driving conditions/traffic? With the 100+ temps in Tejas of late touch and go, or dealocked traffic can heat the car up more than normal.
The mustang auto is a learning transmission......if you baby it the tranny will cater to that, and the opposite.
I too am a fellow audiophile.......what do you mean when you mention "audio issues" . For the discerning music fiend you are going to be very disappointed with 95% of factory radios.

Hope you get it resolved in quick order.......climb up the dealers butt about their apparent inadequacy.

steviedon said:

Overheating is not too complicated an issue to diagnose......water pump, thermostat, or a leak are the only culprits. Thermostats don't always seize in the fully open or closed position....it may have seized up partially open. What are your driving conditions/traffic? With the 100+ temps in Tejas of late touch and go, or dealocked traffic can heat the car up more than normal.
The mustang auto is a learning transmission......if you baby it the tranny will cater to that, and the opposite.
I too am a fellow audiophile.......what do you mean when you mention "audio issues" . For the discerning music fiend you are going to be very disappointed with 95% of factory radios.

Hope you get it resolved in quick order.......climb up the dealers butt about their apparent inadequacy.

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For being such an easy thing to diagnose they are taking their sweet time or else they are just incompetent. That day was probably about 102 degrees and I had been driving around in city for about 6 hours but I still don't think it should have overheated. I have never had a car overheat on me before. I did not know about the "learning transmission". So you are saying I should just start flooring it everywhere I go and the car will realize I want it to pick up the pace quicker? lol I could probably do that...

As for Audio problems I seem to have been plagued. The biggest issue I noticed at first was horrible vibrations in the door panels at any substantial levels of bass on certain songs. Ford reps sat in car with me when things were OBVIOUSLY rattling and said they could not hear anything... I say BS! I couldn't drive anywhere without getting so angry about the issue I finally had dynamat installed. Still hear the occasional vibration but now I'm getting horrible distortion through the smaller speakers. It's like everything I listen to fatigues my ears somehow. Best Buy guy offered to give me old Ford speakers someone had left but wouldn't it make more sense to get something.. idk..fancy? lol. I don't want to replace the head unit because I love using SYNC. It's why I wanted the Premium upgrade. Anyways I'm just disappointed with the audio quality. It was better in my Mazda Tribute than this..:banghead:

As for Audio problems I seem to have been plagued. The biggest issue I noticed at first was horrible vibrations in the door panels at any substantial levels of bass on certain songs. Ford reps sat in car with me when things were OBVIOUSLY rattling and said they could not hear anything... I say BS!

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The dealer can do very little with the poor fidelity engineering of the Shaker 500 stereo. If you do a search you'll see rattles & poor fidelity are the norm. Both by products of having Sub-woofers mounted in the doors.

My sub-woofer is in the trunk, I have no door rattles, and my stereo sounds great.

Here's an accurate assessment IMO.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/foru...-1000-shaker-vs-500-shaker-2.html#post2324717

Hopefully the dealer will figure out your over heating issue, as others have stated it should be routine for them. Good luck.

Joenpb said:

The dealer can do very little with the poor fidelity engineering of the Shaker 500 stereo. If you do a search you'll see rattles & poor fidelity are the norm. Both by products of having Sub-woofers mounted in the doors.

My sub-woofer is in the trunk, I have no door rattles, and my stereo sounds great.

Here's an accurate assessment IMO.

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/foru...-1000-shaker-vs-500-shaker-2.html#post2324717

Hopefully the dealer will figure out your over heating issue, as others have stated it should be routine for them. Good luck.

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I mean are do you have nothing where the original subs were?

Haven't really though about that. I'd probably replace the door speakers, disconnect the door sub-woofers (leaving them in the door), then add a new Mono block amp & sub in the trunk. I might just leave the disconnected sub-woofers in the door, then perhaps you can take your time to find base door covers that won't have the cut outs.

Disassembling the doors:

http://www.allfordmustangs.com/foru...ave-after-market-door-speakers-installed.html