Creative Redditor shows how to make the best out of those removable colored inserts Lexus adds in certain wheels on the RX350.
A Redditor named “ishcapital” recently shared a picture of his Lexus RX350, asking members of the community if the colored plastic inserts in the stock wheels are removable. The OP would go on to explain that he simply doesn’t like the look, so rather than buying differently-colored inserts, he wants to remove them altogether. Some owners with these wheels who don’t care for the look either look to remove the plastic inserts altogether or to replace the stock inserts with a different color, so the desire to make this change doesn’t come as a big surprise.
Fortunately, the community proves to be very helpful, with the most useful reply being a link to Club Lexus.
The Question
When the OP posted his question to Reddit, he shared the two pictures shown above (we arranged them side-by-side for easier viewing) along with the simple question “are these plastic removable from my rims?”
The OP then followed up with the first comment on the thread, stating that “Lexus says they’re interchangeable, I think they’re hideous (rather have the f sport rims or anything else besides these. They can be replaced with different colors, but I’d rather just get rid of the inserts.”
The Answers
Some members clearly missed the OP’s reply about not wanting to swap to a different color, as some members chimed in to point out that other colors are available.
“The grey ones are pretty bad looking but if you want to keep them, you should check out the burgundy-ish color ones. I have those, love them,” said ”notmyuzrname”.
While Redditors “Blipstein” and “ISF5” both offered the type of answers that the OP was requesting.
“Yes. They are removable inserts. Just pop them out,” said Blipstein.
“I would assume so. You probably just have to remove the lugnuts and pop them off,” said ISF5.
Finally, “bbbdddeee” replied with a link to Club Lexus, where RX350 ownersare discussing the different options for changing the look of these wheels. Included in that thread are pictures of a wheel without the inserts, pictures of an insert out of the wheel and pictures of the Lexus SUV with different colors of wheel inserts. Forum member “Ssteve” went so far as to put together a DIY write-up of how to remove the inserts in the thread, making this Club Lexus post the most information aspect of the Reddit discussion.
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