What I Wish I Knew BEFORE Buying a Toyota Supra

this is a list of all 14 things I thought of when I sat down and thought what do I wish I knew before I bought the car if I could go back and tell myself to give myself a heads up and kind of have a nice attack on the car when I first get it and know my way around it really really well I did as much research as I could before purchasing the mark 5 super but there were some things I just didn't find out until I got the car and the first day I had it some things were overwhelming some things were like kind of cool I didn't find out until I talked to more experienced owners or found out myself [Music] first thing that drove me crazy the first I don't even know how long a week and a half until Marin showed me the lane assist the car naturally swerves the lanes aren't perfect you get towards the line the car comes alive and swerves the wheel and like almost jerks it drove Justin and I insane I'm clicking in the menu I'm looking around vehicle settings I'm scrolling all crazy I'm like where is it Marin showed me this whole time time this is a physical button I repeat I can't believe it but I for some reason thought only the traction control button was a button because it's indented but this is a button so you click it and then it pulls up this Toyota Supra safety then you can use the wheel go to customize you can go to customize settings front Collision warning I turn it on late Lane departure warning off this is what was on if you want to let someone else drive your car you can do it reduced and it's not that much I like it all the way off and blind spot monitor which is the orange lights on the mirrors I put that on early this was a huge win and I can't believe something so simple I thought that wasn't a button but it was so I just don't want anyone else to drive around more than 20 seconds with that lane assist on just turn it off I it drives me absolutely insane the cab and in here is so small compared to anything I'm used to and it completely threw me off the windshield is like super short your visibility is crazy you can't look over your shoulder in this car at all so you have to fully rely on your mirrors but when you get the mirrors where there's just barely a little bit of the hip showing and you use that blind spot monitor your confidence should be high because it seems intimidating at first and I was very nervous the first day driving around but once I got comfortable I was like wow this car is so small it fits in such small places it goes faster than anyone on the road and the blind spot monitoring works so good you can almost rely on that and then you don't really have a blind spot with if you have the mirror set up right I'm thinking back to myself in the first day and a half of driving it where I was a little nervous I'm like what were you thinking like just relax get the mirror set up know that you can trust the blind spot monitor lights know where they're at the little triangles and the mirrors and just get used to the car slowly but realize it's small and if you need to move somewhere make sure you're going faster than the traffic next to you and you should be all right moral of the story you have way more visibility than you think two things came to mind of what would be good for this car first was radar detector and second was a dash cam 70mi reached out and wanted to Showcase their 4K dash cam let's install it hardwire kit that's purchased separately and this is a front and rear facing kit 4K in the front 1080 in the back here's the front facing dash cam itself rear-facing one the camera for the front does swivel that's the display this is the hardwired kit so you get a wire it to something that knows to turn on with the key but since it has power it'll be able to record when the vehicle is off peel back your sticker electrostatic press it on so there's no air bubbles and I put it as high up to get a great view have an SD card now I can angle the camera and we are already recording [Music] 1080 or 4K time lapse when parking or motion detection when parking we can turn that on stops recording When You Hit album downloads it straight to your camera roll what more could you ask for GPS coordinates at the bottom of the screen the speed we're traveling date and time everything you need for a dash cam this has the first ever front and rear HDR camera setup High dynamic range so it's easier to see things in the shadows and in bright areas all at the same time which is usually what cameras struggle with the most compare that with the night owl Vision this sensor is capable of really high image quality even at night time as you can see you can still see people's plates and information at night it has smart parking Guardian mode powered by AI so if the car has an impact it sets off the GeForce detection and starts recording immediately so if someone hit your car in a parking lot or someone is walking too closely to your vehicle the AI can sense that and start recording them immediately if you want to purchase one of these dash cams I have it linked in the description to Amazon thank you 70 my for sponsoring this video so that we can further invest in the Supra and continue to make awesome videos with it bring a USB a to lightning cable for your iPhone or if you have an Android because my phone I have an iPhone 13 mini it's probably half the problem but the wireless charger in here makes my phone so hot and when the wireless car play has a hot phone attached to it physically hot this thing it just starts glitching and we're just driving home and the music couldn't even play smooth and Justin and I were about to lose our minds how do we fix that bring the cable plug it in the USB port up here you slide the phone up in there and it will start charging it where it starts to actually turn into an oven I'll plug the phone in and then this vent actually fits perfect if I point it up it'll sit there with the AC freezing cold it will cool my phone down instantly and then Apple carplay starts to play Smooth again and it starts to work is that an iPhone 13 mini thing only I don't know let me know in the comments but it did happen to me and I was pissed because we were dealing with skipping and lagging music the whole way home after I bought this car because we didn't have a cable and the Apple carplay Place smokes your iPhone batteries so much when it's wireless car play so I was constantly having to put it in the oven down there it would get hot music would skip pull it out I didn't even know about the vent yet I was just holding it up with my hand just a couple annoying things that could have been avoided if I knew what I know now not as obvious as you would think but when you see this and you reach for it with your hand you can feel the seat adjustments to go back and tilt now there is the bolstering adjustment rocker here that makes this tighter on you and then the circle down there is your lumbar support so don't sleep on those and then if you hit set and then click the one you want it'll do a chime and you just saved your seating position so anytime you let someone drive the car other than you you can just click this button right here I found this out from Chris that this is a BMW thing when you put the car in Reverse this mirror over here dips down to show you curb view so you don't hit your wheel there's some situations where I'm like yo I need to see behind me because this car has limited visibility and I'm looking around I'm like I really wish that mirror was good but it's looking down and I don't like it well you can fix that if you come over here the toggle switch for the left and right mirrors to adjust them if you just click it to the right it will deactivate that feature so you can on the Fly pick which mode you want at any time which is super convenient [Applause] [Music] if you're having fun the first day driving this car and you see some fluid coming out the side of the car right here don't panic right by the fender is where the washer fluid cap is this opened up and water was coming out right here if you're having fun with your friends right when you get the car you can start the car in sport mode so it's louder get some pops pretty aggressive startup nice little subtle Flex for the boys so when you get in the car the dash is lit up it's on press the sport button you'll see the dash go to sport sport here start it up I was thinking to myself I don't like the auto start stop when your car shuts off with the light I wish to start in sport mode every time there's quite a few things you can do if you go check out the full video I'll throw a little card on the screen right here but if you get an OBD device like this you can use Beamer code and do a bunch of cool things to the car coding if you tell it that you have a Z4 you actually get more options so this is fun to play with if you didn't know about it yet and you can get a BMW M logo on Startup on the screen with this I don't know why it's just like funny like this little detail to me people get in and they see the M logo they're like what non-car people are like isn't that BMW [Music] looking back not realizing the actual extent of how tail happy this car is is something that I wish I would have put more emphasis on the traction control works really good and I don't think it's anything you should be nervous about but when you turn it all the way off or even in sport traction mode it will be just so tail happy it will catch you off guard I wasn't pushing it hard enough to potentially get in a bad situation but we're getting close and knowing what I know now I'm like wow we were probably on the edge for some of that and the traction control was definitely working and the stability keeping the stability in some of those Corners at high speeds but I wonder what the limit is when trash control is on you just wonder how easy it is to Loop out the car because when traction controls off it's very easy that's the last thing you want to do when you get the car right so all I'm saying is the car gets insane grip but it's just as good at sliding as it is gripping so be careful learn the car trust it but all also make sure you know yourself where that limit and that line is before you find it on accident to be safe the only thing I can recommend is when you're going fast around corners and if you're on throttle at all I would just keep the RPM 1000 lower than normal to keep good grip and not get too high in the revs to potentially if you hit like a little bit of gravel on the road then the wheels start spinning if you're at a lower RPM that's just like what I do to maintain more grip I just bog the car a little bit I like to drive any car higher in the RPMs because it's more fun obviously depending on the car but when I'm learning I usually just try to be like okay just force yourself lower the RPMs down and just carry speed learn the car don't try and drive it on the edge all the time that's it that's my mentality behind it [Music] if you didn't know if you click unlock and hold it holding unlock holding unlock holding unlock all the way until they're all the way down the keys can roll the window down holding lock and they go up and your mirrors go in so if you want your mirrors to go in and your windows up hold the lock if you want them down hold the unlock [Music] programming your garage code these buttons are super low-key and I own the car for about two weeks and then I realized oh I should probably program these so don't sleep on that [Music] speaking of security this is my first BMW and if there's a red blinking light that means your car is locked and you can see the light further than your key will reach so that is so so so useful love that BMW feature because I don't know about you but I'm always like oh did I lock it I think so and then your girlfriend's like you have to go back to the car for the third time you didn't lock it what are you doing I'm like can I see the light we're good this one's interesting I'm gonna go to my VIN number over here the last six numbers what's zero plus two plus two plus six plus six plus zero sixteen remember that EL secret menu make sure the car is on wait for all the lights to go away press and hold the trip meter long press you're gonna see the miles go away don't panic just keep holding it they'll come back keep on holding all right long press identification nope press it again System test no chassis Dyno mode no test end no unlock click press and hold that all right remember our number is 16 so I'm going to press the button 16 times press and hold now all right we're gonna go to temperature now now I can see our coolant temp oil temp oxygen temp sensor I believe that's what that is let me know if I'm wrong but this is good for track days if you just want to see how hot things are running that is the secret menu every time you turn the car on and off it'll go away so you got to redo it the best for last how to do a burnout let's get it sport mode check hold the traction control button until you see VSC off really important VSC off put it in manual I'm gonna do the left foot break about 70 percent then give it gas when this hits 4 000 I'm going to shift a second that was by far the most aggressive burnout I've done yet I don't want to blow through these tires but for the video's sake so you know how to do a burnout that's how you do it it's really really easy and satisfying with this car and it's fun to do to make your buddies laugh when you're cruising around that clip where I did a burnout at the light there was smoke all through the intersection and it's just making everybody laugh [Music] if you thought that was it it wasn't the one bonus thing I want to say is that a downpipe in tune is absolutely should be highly considered in your brain I don't care how nervous you get it does get a little confusing with the DME which is the ECU which is the computer that controls the car and which yours can and can't be tuned the accutech boot mode uh all these softwares and stuff all the video about that coming out soon so hit that subscribe button to explain that all do you have a complete peace of mind and you have everything you need to know when it comes to tuning Marin is my neighbor who tunes on accutech here in Phoenix Arizona and he made this car extremely fast until it blows the tires off all the way through fourth gear with Michelin pod Sports on

Channel: Cameron Alford

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 12 2023