pab12

>Post a photo of your car with the moldings on...
This isn't my car, and this picture comes from elsewhere on this site...but it is EXACTLY how my car looks like.
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Brent1944

I will if i can figure out how to post a picture. Havent been able to do that for some reason. Mine is that color.. Nor sure what year that is. Mine is a 2016.. and has the optional 18" wheels, which are different than this and I have oval exhausts

pab12

>Mine is that color..
But trust me, your doors will look exactly like this.

Brent1944

OK guys./ladies...I Installed the molding this AM and the mats are very nice. I wasnt aware they were this color of brown.. Same as my interior...

bc6152

Mats look really nice. Matches perfectly. Nice job on the molding and look at all the money you saved by doing it yourself...

imrankh24

Quick question where was the car built?

Brent1944

Car was built in Georgetown Kentucky..

imrankh24

Mine was to so read my threads and see if you have any similar issues.

Brent1944

i have none of the issues you mentioned.

imrankh24

Well lucky you. I find it extremely stupid that they moved production the us for this car.

Brent1944

Id say if you have an issue with the car, to begin with the dealer and go from there. Im quite sure of the thousands and thousands of cars made by ALL manufactures.....some have issues, its impossible to not have any...Id say its and exception rather than the rule...Sorry you had issues. Hope you can get them resolved.

LexBob2

I will be interesting to see if quality/reliability is effected much by the move to U.S. production. It's too early to tell, but just a guess, it probably will be minimal

Brent1944

Toyota has been assembling cars in Kentucky for a long time.. Not like its a new plant..Its just the ES thats been there since 2015. The Rx 350 is in Canada...

UKEE

It's interesting that the Lexus 'portion' of the Georgetown plant stole the best of the best from the Toyota side of the plant leaving a big void in EVERYTHING Toyota at the time. Throw in the fact that Toyota had been open nearly 30 years and with lots of people leaving/retiring, they had a big void of talent. Toyota stole engineers, quality, everyone else from the surrounding supply plants.

Based on the way the Georgetown plant operates as far as quality goes, I suspect that any issues will be minimal and lined out quickly (although Toyota has shifted to using quite a bit more of the 'temporary' staffing services over the years so that may be an issue over time).

lesz

If it turns out that there are quality differences between ES vehicles built in Japan and those built in the US, I would not expect those differences to be ones that had an effect on vehicle reliability, and I would expect that any differences would be ones that typical car buyers would not even notice.

For example, I would expect that vehicles built in both locations would be built to the same specification tolerances, but there might be small differences with regard to how close to perfect the vehicles are within those specification tolerances depending on where they were built, So, for example, if the specification tolerances for the gap between the fenders and the hood was, say .4 mm, the typical vehicle built in Japan might be within .1 mm of being perfect, and the typical vehicle built in the US plant might be within .2 or .3 mm of being perfect. Both will be built within specification, but one might be more likely to be closer to perfect than the other. Similarly, there might be minor differences in things like the amount of orange peel in the paint. The worst differences that I could imagine might be with something like propensity to rattles or squeaks.

Over about a 15 year period of time, I owned about a dozen Nissan and Infiniti vehicles. About half were built in Japan and half were built in the US. Vehicles built in both locations had virtually equal reliability and all were built to high quality standards, but I could see consistent minor differences between vehicles built in the two locations, again, with regard to things that most people would not even notice, mostly in the category of fits and finishes.