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Thanks for the disassembly pics. Have you considered doing a hydrodip on your parts for a Carbon Fiber finish? That appears to be what Toyota has done with the center piece, it's clearly not real Carbon Fiber.

Center console removes dead-easy. Pull up the rubber liner from the cupholders, remove the 2 screws you'll see underneath (T20 torx if I recall), then pull the whole leather cover straight up. It's attached with several clips.

Congratulations! Gorgeous car. Like everyone else, I'm just thrilled with ours.

It looks pretty good as a Targa. Lack of detail in the attachment system in these videos probably means their system isn't workable for scale production (including no details on Targa top stowage, or lack thereof). Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the red mirror covers. Just looks out of...

Bimmercode will work fine to disable ASD. I have a recent 2021 Supra 3.0 with locked ECU, and Bimmercode works great for coding off ASD, adding daytime brightness control, and a few other things (retention of auto-start setting, turning off iDrive and rear-view camera warnings, etc.)

I just had a 2017 440i (N-version of NBT EVO iDrive) coded for full-screen carplay. That worked great. I sent info to the same coder on the 2021 Supra (T-version NBT EVO) and was informed they don't yet have a way to activate full-screen. It's being worked on, but still no joy.

All of those things (kids, driveways, home maintenance) mean a 2-seat sports car is probably not a good choice for you as an only car. None of that means it's not a perfectly good daily-driver for someone in a different set of conditions. The designation as a "daily-driver" usually means it...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/first-drives/a32453503/toyota-supra-four-cylinder-review/ That’s not an official source though. You may be right. I found a European Toyota news release that does mention an open diff. Confusing indeed...

The 2.0 has a mechanical limited-slip differential, not open.

Same here. Been that way for me for over a month. No idea why.

Your M3 does indeed have a Li-ion battery. This was done to save about 40 pounds in weight, and is done on all the M-cars. That battery costs well over $1500. Non-M BMWs still use lead acid batteries, as does the Supra, at about 1/4 the cost. Again, FYI.

I hit a curb with a BMW 335i about 5 years ago. I wouldn't describe my impact as "very hard", though. It was relatively mild. Same symptom as you, the wheel wouldn't fully turn. Turns out, I bent the tie rod from the steering rack, that was all. These cars are designed to bend the tie...

Your supra battery is lead acid, FYI. The only Li-ion battery I'm aware of is in the telecommunications module.

Here's my takeaway from this whole discussion: the car has a function to limit power based on who-knows-what set of parameters. That's it. It's a part of how this engine was built. Everything else is just a matter of what those conditions are and when they're met. Without knowing the...

Never manages to mention the A91 lacks a heads up display.

Yep. That horse left the barn about 30 years ago. It's worse with the BMWs, honestly. One source of these problems is BMWs prioritization of revenue over engineering stability. Most of these cars are built with options that are subsequently disabled in software. BMW then tries to extract...

That helps it comes with an airbag. I'd still have a few questions. Who supplies the airbag? Is it new or repurposed. Also, I don't see where the wheel-vibration modules would fit in this? Do you lose that function? Is this a heated wheel as well? It does look good, but you may lose...

The workshop manual shows that as an integrated part of the front suspension strut. I didn't find anything in the workshop manual that references that as a separate part. Here's one of the diagrams from the workshop manual.

Mirror caps shouldn't have any effect on the mounting of the mirror itself. This doesn't sound right; my mirrors are solid, no vibration.

I have a version of that wheel in my daily driver (BMW 440i Gran Coupe). It's the "M-Sport" version of the 3/4 series F30/F32 BMWs. The one thing you'll have to check is airbag fitment. For BMWs, the M-sport wheels do NOT easily interchange with the regular wheels, as they have totally...