Hayk

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Lexus sell three colors - Black, Ivory, and Sage. Are these the sage ones? I like the contrast.

LeX2K

Hard to tell from those pics, but probably ivory is what you're seeing. Sage=green tint, see this listing to get an idea of the difference between it and ivory. Here is my car with the ivory mats. They are not really ivory at all, well maybe a dark ivory. BTW black is no longer available.

Hayk

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Okay I just wanted to make sure that Ivory mats are darker than the leather.

Power6

I can't be sure since I am color deficient in my vision ;-) but there are only three colors, ivory, sage and black. The Ivory interior is the "tan" looking interior, the sage is the "grey" looking interior, and obviously you know if you have black ;-)

The sage is actually a light green but the darker interior tones are a grey, whearas the ivory interior has obvious tan tones on the darker colors so it is not hard to figure out which you have. Your interior looks sage to me.

Lexus2000 looks like you have the sage interior as well, but you have the mats from the ivory? The sage mats match the sage carpet perfectly. I know it is hard to tell on the Internets with pictures.

LeX2K

No I have the ivory interior. The car came with the ivory mats, I replaced them with a new set, although the only issue was the drivers side had a wear spot. I put a small mat on top on the drivers side to prevent wear, a brown one from a '92-96 Camry (the rear seat one.)

Hayk

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Just so you know, that is not my car in the OP. I borrowed those images as a reference.

Lexus2000, have you thought of attaching a rubber heel pad to the driver mat? Not sure why Lexus didn't do that from the factory.

LeX2K

I had not thought of that actually, no. But I'm happy with how the mini mat works, it doesn't move around and is easy to wash. Plus it's thin enough not to interfere with anything. I grabbed a couple of them because they're cheap, $1.50 each you can't go wrong.

Hayk

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I found this website. The pad is attached by an adhesive, so I don't know how well that will hold up.

http://www.apadco.com/auto/heelpads.html

LeX2K

That actually looks like a good solution, but not sure if I want to glue something to the mat. Maybe I'll do that on my old one, there is nothing wrong with it except for the one wear spot.

Power6

The original or old stock Lexus mats had a heel pad on the driver's mat. The later ones you can order today, do not. I found a NOS set of sage mats, from circa 2003 they have the heel pads. I couldn't pass them up even though I already own a set of the new style factory mats.

01LEXPL

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^ a rubber heel pad? I don't think i've ever seen those in any lexus model to date, and have tons of old mats at the shop from various ones.

Power6

Not the heel pad is still fabric, some sort of denser thing than the rest of the mat. I had this type on my Canadian WRX mats, it stood up pretty well. Here's a picture posted of an old OEM mat (3ES on left) with the heel pad.

LeX2K

Pretty sure the one on the left is a generation 2 ES mat.

Power6

Nope its a 3es mat next to a 4es mat posted by another member here I took that pic from his thread. I have a complete set of those NOS with the heel pad as well as a new oem set without in the car now. And some nifty catch-all winter mats too I guess I got enough mats now LOL

LeX2K

I've seen that same mat several times at the wreckers but each time it was in a 2ES. I came across a nice black 3ES in a parking lot today so I looked inside, had the same mats as mine but in black, I want those! The factory mats are really great they trap tons of water and crud, downside is when you wash them, they take forever to dry!