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The plugs are really freakin tight against the subframe but doable. If you typically do this sort of stuff on other boxers you will be fine on this one. The trick is you have to get a deep well and a really stubby extension. You put the socket in on it's own, then the extension, then connect the ratchet. It's too tight to put it in the whole while everything is connected. Once you get it loose you can stick a flat head down there to separate the ratchet from the extension and then the extension from the socket. I then stuffed a piece of duct tape in there to grab the plug and pull it out. Others have used magnetic drill bit extension to retrieve the plug. It's kind of a pain but worth the $700 savings.
The rims are 5x100 hub centric with a 56.1mm bore.
I haven't messed with TPMS on this car. I know you can program them (I guess I should say "pair" them) on your own with the Toyota Techstream software (yes it works on the BRZ too). You can get an OBD2 cable that is compatible with Techstream for $18 on Amazon. They usually ship with a bootleg copy of Techstream but normally not the latest version. It's easy to find the latest on the internet though. A lot of what you read says it only works on XP x86 but it actually works fine on Win10x64. Cloning would be much easier but I have no experience with that.
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