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Just joined the club 450h sel what a car!! everyone who's driven it loves it . Best car ever, everything else seen old fashioned

Well I would suggest to replace them with original rims if refurbishment is not an option. As well I guess you want to replace all 4, unless you OK having different style rims on the back. As for 17 inch rims they are identical on front and rear: 8Jx17 ET45, holes: 5x114.3mm, centres: 60.1mm

Have you actually had a look at the grill emblem?? I've just checked the one in my grill 1 screw holding it in!! If it hasn't got a screw have a look for locking tabs Regarding rear emblems get a hammer & thin tipped chisel. Please don't I'm joking. Options, hairdryer to warm the adhesive on the back of emblem,, slowly prize away or try something like cotton or dental floss to get behind emblem

Having always had ML as integral to top-spec IS models, I never previously gave much thought to whether it represented value for money in respect of the system or systems in lower-spec packages. But now, because it will be offered only as an optional with a current list-price of €1250 were I to replace my present 300h with another (as one day I probably shall), I thought it would be useful to try out the 8-speaker system I would otherwise be getting. And, on the basis of a same-car, same-device, same-music and same-environment comparison, I concluded, quite emphatically, that I would still go for the ML. This is not to say that I would be overjoyed to pay the high asking price. It means, rather, that I am satisfied that the ML justifies a premium figure. Whether or not this is excessive is a question for individual customers, and raises the broader issue of why anyone should want premium car audio in the first place, especially when the standard system on offer is in itself an acceptably good one. My own justification for wanting premium car audio in any car I might ever own rests on the availability of 10,000+ titles imported to iPod from a library of 950+ CDs collected over many years and which itself represented a not insignificant investment. The music ranges from early Blues and Rock (mostly remasterings of original recordings of primitive quality) through modern Jazz and "quality" Pop (mostly excellently recorded) to various types of Classical (almost all of it superbly recorded). And, if the selection were not heavily weighted towards the latter areas, I would reckon that just about every car stereo I have ever heard would be good enough. As far as my own repertoire of tastes and desires is concerned, the selection is pretty much definitive, meaning that I very rarely add to it (typically by iTunes or Amazon download when I do) and then only if tempted by rave reviews of new performances of what I usually already have. Therefore, in effect, I view my iPod purely as a means of carrying what is almost my entire music collection from my house to my car and back again. And while I acknowledge that this amount of content is ridiculously large for anybody's needs in a car, I nevertheless find its availability "on tap" to be strangely comforting (especially when supplemented by a good number of automatic podcast downloads which, fortunately, are self-limiting in number since my discovery of the delete-after-listening setting) and, as such, deserving of as good a system as I can afford in order to play it.

As the OP I thought I'd let the contributors know that I've purchased a 2014 IS 300H SE on splendid 16 inch wheels. Not done many miles yet but it does soak up all but the deepest holes etc. and the ride is generally smooth, compliant and unruffled by rural roads in Somerset. And not a squeak of complaint. There may be one drawback - that low nose which might cause problems on some of the single-track B roads I use. Seems to be a general issue because of the six or so ISs I checked before purchase, all had chamfered under-noses. But I knew that before purchase and still decided the other positive features outweighed this one. Thanks to all for the various comments. regards, T.

Had to be done... edit: added a sneaky short vid just because well, I started the thread so I can mess it up. Handle well on the limit these motors.

Thanks for all the input, it seems there's no easy answer. I think I'll just test drive a normal F-Sport and assume AVS makes it slightly better. My emotional side says "go for it!", my rational side says "have fun with your aching back every time you drive more than 10 minutes" :( Alarm bells ring when I read "sport" and "18 inch wheels", but the car itself and the dash look so good.