Originally Posted by DrNumbers

Just a thought for tuning - You could head out to a car audio competition (MECA, IASCA) and ask/pay someone there to tune your car. I've gotten some great help and advice from fellow competitors in MECA. In fact, I'd recommend doing this over paying a shop to tune.

Installs and tuning are two completely different ballgames. A shop that does amazing installs won't necessarily be able to do a good tune, although they are going to tell you otherwise. I went to one shop over the past summer that has done immaculate installs, and asked the owner to tune my car just to see how it would end up sounding. He made the audio so much less dynamic over my previous tune, but he thought it sounded great.