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Maybe the conditioner he's using is breaking down the leathers coating. Phil

Mabe thats your issue. The Supra will almost certainly have coated seats like 95% of all modern leather car seats. It's a bit pointless "conditioning" it at all. I do agree the wear looks accessive and I've seen people successfully claim this sort of wear on warranty as well as discolouration...

It's not injector noise. Injector noise won't change with engine temp. It's piston noise. Until the engine gets to operating temp the piston clearances won't be optimal for quite a idle. The price you pay for modern slipper pistons and an alloy block. A cast iron block would be quieter when cold...

Any engine can throw a rod if the oil supply to the big end is compromised or the engine is over revved or it's FFSed regularly or the Money shift happens. Phil

It's thrown a rod OR "stuck a leg out of bed" as we used to say. Phil

So somehow the the screen has been damaged by one would assume airborn particles that have sand blasted the screen for want of a better term during transport but not touched the black plastic A pillar covers, the mirrors and mirror supports or the outer edges of the roof leading edges which are...

Love the colour. Phil

Time for a new battery. Try a load tester on it. They are about $50 to buy.

My SIL is a Vicpol cop, believe me they don't have the manpower to be pulling over people in $100,000 cars to asses/measure the dimensions of rear wings. To all those that complain about the Victorian road rules we do have one massive advantage here and that's NO annual road worthiness...

12 volts with the engine off and no load is a half charged AGM battery. It should be 12.8 volts+ fully charged no load. How old is the battery? Phil

Doesn't fit very well or hasn't been fitted correctly. Left side hangs lower than the right by quite a long way. Never a good look. Phil

Yea and when the eye watering CC bill for it lands I just ring the Credit Card provider and say one word, Adro and they wipe the charges, NOT. 😂 Phil

It sounds very much like a louder version of a motorcycle fuel tank vent squealing after the engine is shut off and the bike is parked. The fuel in the tank heat soaks from the engine heat and the tank starts to vent as the pressure builds up and lifts the vent valve off it's seat and it squeals...

Here's a tip for future reference. Dealers try and duck intermittent faults because if they replace a suspected component and it goes back to the manufacturer and tests NFF (no fault found) then the dealer pays for the part and labour. In an instance like yours you tell the dealer and...

Good info. Was your car under warranty? Phil

Good idea. You'll need a digital bore gauge or a set of telescopic bore gauges and a 75-100mm mike. A dial or digital bore gauge would be better but for a one off the telescopic gauges will suffice. These things are pretty cheap to buy these days and nothing wrong with Chinese stuff for your...

Custom pistons to suit the bore size or fractionally oversize and hone to size. The drop in kits will shoot for an average piston clearance for a new block but although the coated bores in a B58 are hard wearing there is still a bore tolerance + or minus. Thats why any drop in kit will be a hit...

The method to set piston to bore clearance is by measuring each individual piston and then honing each individual bore to suit the particular piston. Thats it. Anything else is just an educated guess at what the clearances will be and an assumption of what the bore size was out of the factory...

You don't need to worry about the piston and rod additional weight. An inline 6 has perfect primary and secondary balance. This means that the opposing pistons perfectly cancel each others imbalance out as a consequence of the engines design. As long as all the new pistons and rods are exactly...

Is you car modified? Phil