You need to learn how to properly quote. Regardless, you "knew" what was wrong and decided to totally jack up the sub making any real problem completely unrecognizeable? On top of that, did you know the basket was bent right away or did you just discover this issue a year later? And you truly think the basket being "bent" less than 1/4" is going to do that to the entire suspension and coil? All it would really do, as far as I know, will make the cone deflect slightly, which it's able to do because it's a paper cone and designed to do that. Not to mention that the cone wouldn't be moving far enough for anything serious to happen anyways (until you plugged it into the wall, free air I'm assuming.) My last question was a hypothetical that you apparently didn't understand. If something on the sub is messed up, instead of contacting the manufacturer, you decide to totally destroy the entire thing? I don't see the logic in that one. I've popped one coil on my 9510 and 9515 before. I didn't plug the thing into a wall socket and drop it off a cliff just to make sure it's really f*cked up. I tore it apart and fixed it. Seems like common sense to me.