This might actually be a good opportunity to directly install the Verus oil cooler, which has a lot of data from the time attack community. The tricky part here is that you might be missing some bracket/duct hardware, however.
Yeah that's one of the things that's partially resolved by the camber plates (moreso the top of the liner) and/or steering limiter (moreso the front/rear of the liner). Or just cutting the fender liner. But i remember someone (@Traxion ?) ran into binding issues with the rack limiter as well...
Interesting, it looks like other websites have a picture of it, but they also dont have any hits when you try and search 52704-waa01. The price of 52702/3 seems high to me, considering the giant fender liner is only like 60 bucks, so I'm guessing it's something else we're not seeing in this picture
SPL has problems with the pinch clamps failing, rod ends failing, as well as having interference issues with the FLCA. For some reason they airballed the a90 designs and then just decided that replacing parts is the better long term strategy over redesigning.
There are some constraint quirks of...
There is already a firewall-triangulated strut bar on the car that goes under the wiper cowl and weatherstrip that sadly nobody makes upgrades for. That being said, i do have some dinan bars for sale in the classifieds section.
In theory, a jb4 can trigger a permanent shadow code (s0777 suspicion of tuning) that gets silently recorded at the dealer. Can a dealer look the other way? Sure. Will YOUR dealer look the other way? Don't know. Is the Toyota and BMW backend integration so poor where it has a good chance it...
Closing the loop on this, looks like the sport shift map specifically excludes using 8th gear, so you need to switch sport mode to using normal shift maps. Either in the idrive menu, or the XHP options.