As somebody who was a validation engineer for one of Toyota's major suppliers years ago, I hate to burst your bubble but the body control module for all of these cars is the same (and I did direct work on Toyota BCMs). That they can't supply them is actually an egregious failure as the op...
My point, which was probably not well made earlier because I was going for sarcasm, is that these companies are flush with cash. They're flush with cash because they squeezed these supply chains (that are obviously not built overnight) for the previous decade to the point that they were ready to...
"TOKYO -- Toyota Motor on Wednesday reported a record net profit of 2.3 trillion yen ($20 billion) for the nine months through December, up 58% from the same period the previous year, thanks to the weakening yen and a higher operating margin."
"In a challenging environment, the BMW Group ended...
Do you get "fix it" tickets like in some states in the US? Or do they come down on you hard? I could see building a replaceable section. One version has the stuff that kills the sound for annual inspections and another version is the fun version
I had HPS and HPS 5.0 on an Audi S4. The HPS were essentially stock but with less dust. The 5.0 didn't seem much better but were terrible when cold. Had a few puckery moments when driving in slush. They didn't grip well when cold.
I put Porterfield R4-S compound on my Audi and now on my Z4...