SW17LS

I have spent well over a decade devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to the online Lexus community, I am not a troll lol.

And name calling is just childish and and unnecessary. I know what I'm telling you is not what you want to hear, and that it clearly makes you angry but I'm just the messenger here.

This brochure is from New Zealand. They have different trims in different regions. They do not offer shimamoku trim in the US, and we live in the US. No US brochure or website lists the trim as "Shimamoku".

I understand what Shimamoku means, I have actually defined it for you in this thread. The definition of "shimamoku" means nothing in this situation, because the LX in the US does not feature shimamoku wood, and the linear espresso wood is never described as shimamoku.

Correct.... the steering wheel in the LS. We are discussing the LX, which has been demonstrated by many pictures here does not have shimamoku trim. (have you found even one picture of a shimamoku wheel from an LX? No).

Just because shimamoku trim is striped grain does not mean all striped grain trims are shimamoku. Linear espresso is not. 　

Again, all those pictures are of the steering wheel in the LS, you have an LX.

You cannot agree to disagree about the facts. I understand that you want what you are saying to be true, but it isn't. If you continue to try and tell people that the LX in the US has shimamoku trim and that linear espresso trim and shimamoku trim are the same trim I will continue to point out that is incorrect.

You cannot prove a negative. There isn't a document that says "linear espresso wood is not shimamoku", you haven't provided any information from a US spec source that the LX has shimamoku trim, and all the pictures of shimamoku steering wheels you have posted are of the LS.

The evidence is right on the US Lexus.com. Why would they list the trim in the LS and "shimamoku" and not the trim in the LX as "shimamoku" if it indeed were? Why do they only market the shimamoku process when discussing the LS and the steering wheel in the LS? If that process were used in the LX, why wouldn't they market it on the LX also?

This is a screen shot from the LS section of Lexus.com. As you can see they describe the shimamoku trim as "exclusive":


If you look at the LX section, there is clearly no mention of shimamoku trim. The picture that is closest to the one of the LS is this one, and as you can see no mention of shimamoku trim, and the steering wheel is clearly not a shimamoku steering wheel as it is in the LS:

This is the interior select page from Lexus.com for the LS. As you can see the trim is described in italics (for emphasis) as Shimamoku:



This is the build page for the LX on Lexus.com. As you can see, there is no mention of the trim being Shimamoku, it is "linear espresso wood". If you look at this depiction of the steering wheel, it is clearly different than the depiction of the steering wheel in the LS and has no layers:



I'm sorry it upsets you, but the trim in your LX is not shimamoku trim, and your steering wheel is the one that was supposed to come on your LX, its the one every other owner with the linear espresso trim has, which has been shown here in pictures. I agree that the monroney sticker is an error. If you want to continue to pursue this, go for it but the forum is a place for accurate information.

hankinid

A duplicate of the wheel on my 2013 KC,


I wasn't aware that you appointed yourself to Moderator. Thread count is about my last concern online. Calling another here "full of BS" sounds like a 9 year-old, but only imo.

Other than that, Merry Christmas.

DaveGS4

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Thread done. Please do not carry the rude personal commentary into future threads