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I guess my concern is how does the Blackvue (or other external) battery know not to draw on that same circuit when the car is powered off if the Blackvue cameras didn’t know not to? Is the Blackvue battery pack “smarter” than their cameras in that regard? If not, I’m not understanding how the...

I think I’ve heard that it’s installed at the port (along with the carbon fiber mirror caps) - no idea if that’s true, though.

So is the solution to tap into that 12v port as shown in that video using a relay but instead of hooking the relay directly up to the cameras, to hook it up to a battery, and then plug the battery into the cameras? It seems like something (this time, the battery) would still be drawing power...

But wait... Wasn't that @RRKnight's car? And didn't it still cause battery issues even though it was plugged into those ports? I guess if that's causing issues I'm not sure how you could avoid the problem...

No idea - they don’t even seem to exist yet so I haven’t been able to get any details about them other than the supposed part number (which isn’t pulling up any additional info about them at this point).

Do we know which of the circuits in the trunk it's okay to hook the cameras up to so that it doesn't drain them when the car is turned off and result in battery issues? I would still plan on hooking up a third-party battery between the camera and the car's battery, but I'm just wondering if...

Just as an update on the puddle lamps, the latest is that they will not be available until at least December of this year even though Toyota Japan's website still states that the expected timing of sale is August:

I don’t have anything to add here other than I would be very interested in purchasing a carbon fiber solution to this problem (as long as it matches the carbon fiber of the mirror caps) - so there’s at least one other person who would be willing to dish out some $ if someone makes this thing. ;-)

You go to Japan, buy it, and either bring it back with you or ship it to your home address.

Yes, it requires drilling a couple of holes.

You can’t yet - they won’t show up in dealers’ systems here in the states, unfortunately.

Yeah, there was just so much wrong with this article... (i) It says that the first Supra Launch Edition placed for auction didn't even sell. That's obviously not true. The first launch edition was #1 and it sold for $2.1 million. Even if the criteria were changed to "the first Launch edition...

I think you may be referring to my post in the TRD Parts thread: https://www.supramkv.com/threads/first-trd-parts-and-pricing-available-for-2020-supra.1801/page-8 It's not at GR Garage Japan's website per se - they won't ship abroad but you can pick up the parts if you go to the store and...

lol I’m a lawyer too and while I think I would use that fact in my favor in dealing with a dealership that was trying to void valid warranty claims, I don’t think I would ever represent myself in a lawsuit against them. You really have to be a litigator to know what you’re doing there and people...

Just a few other ideas.

It could be within 2 months, though. My car was produced on 5/23 and I purchased it on 7/23 (it had arrived at the dealer a day or two before that), so it’s possible that if they started producing the Phantoms at the very beginning of September they could arrive by the end of October / beginning...

/sigh the good old “the C8 is only $5,000 more!” myth. No. The base models differ in price by $10,000, and the upper end models differ by much, much more. That alone ruined this article for me. I think that you could probably find evidence of a C8 somewhere where folks were unwilling to pay over...

It’s hard to describe but the front of it just has so many lines and creases and there’s a lot going on. The back had looked okay in pictures (I hadn’t been a fan of the styling since I first saw it as it looked Camaro-ish) but after seeing it in person the back end (especially the spoiler)...

It’s always interesting how different peoples’ tastes can be. I already had the Supra at the time, but after seeing the C8 in person in a parking lot a while ago it affirmed to me that I made the right decision (for me) because the C8 simply had too much “presence” (in the sense that there’s...

Given that LE#2 was around the 1,300th LE produced and the 3,250th production Supra produced, this is not surprising. If anything, it makes the $50,000 over MSRP markup of LE#2 quite funny because it's not like you're getting the 2nd GR Supra ever produced... or even the 10th, 100th or 1000th...