ES Body Side Moldings and Matd
#16
>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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Current Hers: '13 Lexus ES350
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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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Current Hers: '13 Lexus ES350
Current Mine: '08 Jaguar S-Type 4.2 "Satin Edition" (250.06 whp / 259.67 torque)
#17
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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
#20
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Mats look really nice. Matches perfectly. Nice job on the molding and look at all the money you saved by doing it yourself...
#25
Lexus Test Driver
Originally Posted by Brent1944
i have none of the issues you mentioned.
#26
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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.
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#28
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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...
#29
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).
#30
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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.
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