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Be sure to use the Blackvue battery pack to avoid problems with the car battery and ECU. You don't want the camera to pull any power from the car battery when the engine is off.

Did they finally get sensible on the pricing? It's been there forever.

The car recommends a "realtime" pressure, based on the actual tire temperature. This will be affected by driving, which heats up the tire. The door jamb sticker gives the "cold" inflation pressure. The two should agree when the tires are cold. This is covered somewhere in the owners manual...

It's molded gloss plastic, so I doubt there is a paint code.

I would try. Part of the plugging process is reaming out the hole with a file tool. If the tool goes in through the tread and doesn't hit the sidewall, it should be OK. If the screw went into the sidewall from inside then I would be less inclined to try a fix. I have fixed dozens of tires...

These almost always work out on their own with little or no damage (worst case might be a groove on the rotor that will eventually go away). Going in reverse is a good trick.

Correct. All of these vane designs are copying a solution someone else came up with for different cars, but they are way overkill for the Supra. A very minimal dot/bump/tab is all it takes to solve the problem. And the further forward you go, the smaller it needs to be. If someone were to...

Bolts are always resized (when you add/remove spacers, etc) to result in no-net-change of thread engagement, which suggests the depth is important.

I think anyone not living under a rock would have noticed this -- the Z4 launched with that engine in early 2019.

You are looking at this in a bit of a short term vacuum. The 382HP engine was already out and available in several BMW models before the 2020 Supra even went on sale. And in the same timeframe, we already knew it would be coming to the Supra for 2021. So Toyota didn't "revise" the engine...

Also, the 6-port engine shipped in the Z4 in early 2019. Is there a reason the Z4 got it and the Supra did not? Hard to say, but the engine was available and in use at that point.

That 2-port design, with the integrated "headifold", was done for emissions purposes, and is the engine you would get in a range of European-market BMWs. US model BMW counterparts have been getting the 6-port setup instead. Toyota used the 2-port setup for the first year's production in both...

It's not 6 months -- the 2021 model isn't coming out until June. Which will be almost exactly 1 year after the 2020 model went on sale.

It was always known it would be in the 2nd model year of production.

This was known and discussed here and elsewhere on the internet in early-mid 2019. It was known even before the 2020 Supra began shipping in the summer. A BMW insider posted details here, and we tracked down the VINs of a dozen test cars with the 382HP engine. I feel like any serious Supra...

The 382HP engine has been in 3-4 BMW models since spring 2019 so there is plenty of information on it already.

This power bump was known to us in early-mid 2019, and obviously known to Toyota long before that. From what insiders have hinted at, Supra engine availability is largely riding on BMW's schedule. BMW itself releases power bumps on a 1-3 year timeline, independent of mid-model updates (what...

As far as I know it's the same B58 variant the Z4 launched with last spring. This engine is also in the new 3-series, and made it into the X3 for the 2020 model year (there may be slight nuances with each model).

We knew in early-mid 2019 that the 382HP engine and other upgrades were coming. We also knew about the new special edition model (even the blue color was known). In fact it was all known and open here on the forum and elsewhere on the internet before the 2020 Supra even went on sale. So if...

For those pissed about the upgrade or coming up with theories about poor sales -- we knew back in early 2019 (courtesy of a BMW insider) that the 382HP upgrade and the special edition Supra was coming for the 2021 model. This was all known and discussed on the forum here even before the 2020...