IF iT WaS A rEAL ToYOTa, thE SuPRa wOULD'vE BeEn BeTTeR..

[Stvee]

BMW was somewhat impudent in building this car in my opinion. From the clown horn to the crappy audio system (no Harmon Kardon) in a $60K+ car, thin paint (in my opinion), to the ridiculous alignment from the factory. The M340i has better options if spec’d out right. Although fully spec’d out would run you $70K+ easily. However, I have to say the build quality is very good on our cars. They prolly figured whoever buy these cars will have their own custom alignment and not care so much about audio.

The audio system IS Harman Kardon, it's just not called that since Toyota normally uses JBL. Harman owns both HK and JBL. Sadly the audio system in my 2007 4Runner is much better than the Supra. Honestly the HK system in any of my BMWs has just been ok at best but the Supra is definitely the worst.



This is the sticker on one of the Supra subwoofers

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[razorlab]

Thanks for posting that, was fun to watch and makes me excited about the future mods I'll be doing to the car.

On this subject - for the first time since owning the car I took an aggressive drive with the traction control enabled. And honestly it does a fantastic job at masking the instability issues of the stock suspension/alignment. So kudos to BMW for a well designed stability control system I suppose.

I have TC fully off in that video. Long press. All systems off.

 

[Excalibur]

A lot of this can be solved with just a good alignment. Then Toe arms. Then struts/springs.

My 2020 is insanely stable on track how I have it currently setup. I can even do some really stupid crap in it and it won't bite. When it was stock, it tried to kill me every chance it had, but that was mainly down to the alignment.

Here is a great example of said stupid stuff at 3-4 secs into this video. I put my right rear wheel into a puddle (you can see the yellow lotus in front of me kick up water doing the same thing) in the curbing and other than a little correction, the car takes it no problem. This is also at around 550wtq.



For such a short wheel base car, if you set it up correctly you can make it VERY stable.

If you don't mind, what would the ideal alignment settings be to cure these issues?

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