Steering wheel really is wood...
#16
Nice find!
To all that are getting the rattles in the 3 + year old cars......I have taken my center stack (cup holder and shifter location) plastic fake wood trim out of the car. I then took the car for a ride and all of my rattles stopped. I came home, got some thin strips of tape insulation and applied it to all the areas that creeked while I moved it in my hands. I also put the insulation on all the clips that snap into the dash where they meet together. My rattles are all gone thanks to about an hour of work. Really easy to do and it makes all the difference in the world! Sorry to get off topic!
To all that are getting the rattles in the 3 + year old cars......I have taken my center stack (cup holder and shifter location) plastic fake wood trim out of the car. I then took the car for a ride and all of my rattles stopped. I came home, got some thin strips of tape insulation and applied it to all the areas that creeked while I moved it in my hands. I also put the insulation on all the clips that snap into the dash where they meet together. My rattles are all gone thanks to about an hour of work. Really easy to do and it makes all the difference in the world! Sorry to get off topic!
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I know I'm asking for it too, but frankly the thick clear coating makes it look and feel like plastic, so as far as I'm concerned it may as well be. I would prefer a more natural looking and feeling finish ... similar to what is on a fine piece of furniture.
I came home, got some thin strips of tape insulation and applied it to all the areas that creeked while I moved it in my hands. I also put the insulation on all the clips that snap into the dash where they meet together. My rattles are all gone thanks to about an hour of work. Really easy to do and it makes all the difference in the world!
#22
yup, all the new lexus has a lot more gloss on the wood trims. good or bad, hard to say. personally wood trim is not something i care that much anyway. i always prefer aluminum trim if available
#23
Me too. I think it's lighter than these plastic stuff and stronger. But than again, touching aluminum in zero degree winter climate wouldn't be great.
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I wish Lexus offered PIANO BLACK trim.
#25
ah yes, piano black is another great choice, saw it on bmw and mb, gorgeous, super class and elegant, imho even more so than tradition wood trim. aluminum trims are on the sporty side of course
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Japanese options
Encore888 posted these notice the wood options
Article:http://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/...09_320703.html
This on top of the built-to-order interior choices that buyers are offered by Lexus Japan. There are reportedly 40,000 possible combinations for the LS.
Official press release: http://www2.toyota.co.jp/jp/news/09/10/nt09_1002.html
Official (translated): http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=$
This on top of the built-to-order interior choices that buyers are offered by Lexus Japan. There are reportedly 40,000 possible combinations for the LS.
Official press release: http://www2.toyota.co.jp/jp/news/09/10/nt09_1002.html
Official (translated): http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=$
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