Which is cool and I respect the effort and attention to only wash by hand - I do it too, just realize you can barely mist it with unicorn tears and pat it lightly with baby angel diapers and its still going to get swirls and need paint correction (for me a full 2-day process to do correctly, ugh) periodically. 2, maybe 3 years tops. For my white IS daily driver, I'm saying the heck with it, I want the car to look clean and sharp weekly and I don't care about swirls on white, which nobody but me would notice. I am just gonna keep it clean, keep the opticoat recent and see how it goes. If I hate it in a few years I can always break out there M105/M205 and get it back to new.

 

that happens when people slide down the side bolster. no seat in the world will survive that. learn to get in properly.

 

So many Lexus apologists on this forum. No seat should wear out that fast from rubbing getting in and out. These plastic seats are trash.

 

that's not from casual rubbing. that's from sliding your *** down the side of the seat. i'm coming from a vette to this 3is. several c6 owners were experiencing the same thing from exactly what i'm describing. at first they'd fix them under warranty until they figured out what was happening. tall and large people were the biggest culprits. i'm neither tall or fat and i put my *** on seat bottom when i got in. my seats were fine when i sold my vette 10 years after i got it with 70k miles on it. side bolsters aren't meant to be ridden down to the seat bottom. if someone can't get in a car without sliding down the back of the seat they should get a pick up.