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Well, I did buy a Supra and not a GR86, so there’s not a whole lot of point in referring to me as “Dear GR 86 owner” :D Took delivery October 8.

See any surprises here?

And one more point regarding height— Like the doors on the i8, the hatch on the Supra comes up to a fair height when opened. Even with the lift a maximum height, it only clears because the spoiler extends into the open area between the ramps.

Assembly is definitely DIYable. As I stated before, the real challenge is figuring out how to deal with the delivery of a 3000+ lb package. I lucked out and have a neighbor in the steel fabrication business, and had it delivered to his loading dock, which had a gantry crane. He then brought...

I'd only park on the lift itself if I was raising the car for storage or for work. There's some small risk of driving off the ramps if you're packing on it everyday-- not necessarily a big deal on a truck, but bad on something with minimal ground clearance. Also, you grease the lift cables, so...

Also, a BMW i8 can be a bit problematic to park under the lift depending on the height of the ceiling in your garage :D i found color matched pool noodles to cushion the ramps though!

Some experience here. Primary things to keep in mind are how much height you have to work with and how to deal with the delivery of a 3000 lb package. Secondary issues are the condition/slope of your concrete floor and power availablity— if you can swing 220 V power, I’d go for it. Mine is an...

With oncoming/passing traffic affecting the noise, it may be useful to know if things change if you manually select recirc or fresh for the air source. Other ideas to throw at the wall— has the cabin air filter been changed? Might be worth looking into whether the filter box has been closed...

Unpaid shill for the folks that made the floor mats for my car—

Yup, XtremeMaC was right. Look up above the last bends in the exhaust pipe before the muffler.

Those look about the right shape to go around the front jack points. Hard to tell for sure, because you may be showing the hidden side. What I’m seeing standing under my car—

20% off of SPL parts at bimmerworld!

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Put in some old school, color appropriate CocoMats

Washed car, put up on lift for the seaso, connected battery maintainer and covered. Wheels will be off at some point for cleaning and ceramic coating. Since the garage is heated, the cover will be on and off for more cleaning.

Filled the tank with gas mixed with fuel stabilizer. It looks like they will probably be salting the roads by tomorrow night. :(

Did a post break in (1271 miles) oil and filter change and put the Verus Engineering differential cooler plate on while I had the car up on the lift.

I’ll pile on with a request for photos and perhapps see if there‘s a part number for the wallet/binder thing. Here in the US, mine came in a zip lock bag.

Just out of curiousity, was everything warm when you removed the cover? Being that you were doing an oil change, I’d think so. Asking because of this from the service manual, though it’s mostly talking about damage to the acoustic cover, not the valve cover.

Supra doesn’t have a wide door sill about 4 inches above the seat. In isn’t really that bad, as you’re working with gravity. I damn near ruined myself doing a solo ABS brake bleed, hopping in and out past the OBD cable and scan tool, running to the calipers to open/close bleeders and pumping...