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Thanks guys for all your input. Life is not easy, ha. I tend to think now they may indeed be dectracting from a styling point of view. Probably drawing too much attention to the wheels, and this being irrespectively of them clean or not... Considered also grey / gunmetal / titanium coloured but here the main gripe would be curbing them, as you also pointed out. Would have to park 0,5 m from the edge of the street and probably risk losing driver side wing mirror, not pleasant either! On the plus size - scratching these, being white / silver wouldn't be heartbreaking. Oh well, I'll probably stay with stock 16s for now. They do look too insignificant for me though.

They're actually causing me sleepless nights already! So perhaps that's an indication.

Yup, already know it's totally impractical. Just wondering if they're sexy enough to justify the pain. : )

I'd suggest checking Spritmonitor.de, they have more than 20 ISes 300h (20 with 1500+ km on them, plus probably some others with less mileage). Mine will be there too. The only thing - you'd have to stomach somewhat thorny translation here and there. Our list.

Getting a new car, or they said This Model Does That? :eerrrmm:

So she arrived, waiting at the dealer, I’ll go tomorrow to say hi. Will need to wait two more weeks before picking the car up as the local tax law changes and the car will actually be cheaper in April by considerable margin, so no brainer here, but still it’s going to be even more excruciating. In the meantime, I’m hunting for accessories to pass the time… For this I’d need some advice - Do you experience a lot of brake pad dust on your front wheels? I’m considering white, and somewhat flashy rims, where black stuff would easily be visible, and surely annoying. On the other hand I don’t have too much problem with this on my current car (probably drive conservatively then) and I would expect hybrid to make use of conventional brakes even less often. Your thoughts? Regarding flashiness. I love consistency in design and form, and was considering these white rims. I think this would match well the car (it’s going to be white, of course). After spending a better part of the night podenring the switch, however, I’m having seconds thoughts on whether it complements the classy form of the car, or substracts from it rather. Would welcome some cool-headed opinion. And be open, if necessary, please. On the other forum I saw some disastrous effects of tuning shops' and owners creativity, usually involving black vinyl in random places, dropping the car half a mile, or - for this matter - putting fancy rims on it. Am I trying to do the same? Thanks a million! And here we go (I would try to get rid of the fiery-rocky logos): And in context (not nearly lexy enough, sorry!):

Hi Adrian, I don't know it's on ALL the cars, just the unfortunate ones - I posted this problem last year and there hadn't been much reaction until now, so I guess most members don't have it. If you want to buy an IS300h and think you'll be doing a lot of driving at between 80 - 100km/h I'd recommend you make darn sure you have a written guarantee from your dealer that he'll replace it immediately if this phenomenon appears. Hi there, Thanks for your thoughts! The other John describes this rather eloquently as a design issue, in which case it should be there on all cars, only it occurs in very specific conditions, also, not all dirivers may notice / care about it. The point is I'm very attentive to detail and I will notice for sure and the other sure thing is it would drive me crazy. So there I am. I'm not so much wanting to buy but rather waiting for collection, in 4 weeks time or so, still I guess I can walk away from transaction, but I do want this car... Good point about speaking to the dealer about guarantees.

Now, this has me increasingly worried. Should I cancel my order? Didn't notice any such phenomenon during my several test drives, but I guess it would be there in all cars, right? PS. John, thanks for excelent description of the problem. Anyone can perhaps make a short clip with the sound of it?

Given the money we have spent on these vehicles it is less than satisfactory. From this perspective I fully agree. And believe me, I'm coming from IT background so like all the latest gimmicks. It's only that car manufacturers seem to be years behind mainstream electronic producers especially in terms of user experience. The Lexus platform itself seems to be unstable, outdated and semifunctional. But so is the case with many other car infotainment systems. I would personally wish the car dashboard was "liberated" i.e. free for developers to take over, as is the case with mobiles. There will come a day I will connect (wirelessly) my mobile to take over infotainment system in the car. Just not yet, and not this car. To recap, as much as I understand that car systems need to be mission critical, this being the argument for keeping the technology proprietary, it seems to be a dead end. They're neither stable, nor very useable. The market and consumers will eventually prevail. Not in this decade, probably, though. And while I'm waiting for the car I do wish Lexus sort all these annoying quirks! Only text reading would be my last priority. Hope I made myself a bit more clear this time! : )

This is really minor, no? I wouldn't want my messages to be read out loud in the first place, anyways. Not to mention that in my language this functionality will be implemented probably in the next decade or so. I'm not bothering in the meantime then... : )

Thanks Bobby and Richard! Then I'll ask for this to be customised before delivery. PS. By the time little darlings arrive I'll have another set of wheels most probably. So far the only little critter is non-human and she's not so kin on travelling. Will keep in mind when the time comes! : )

You shouldn't have too much dust with the hybrid anyway? I would think regenerative braking should help here a lot, but again, this will depend on driving style. Also, am wondering if it's a grey alloy, or coating only on these rims? Would hate to think how it looks curbed with coating scratched.

Just a quick question - can you confirm it's for all windows or for front only? Have read somewhere it works for front row only which would be disappointing, and I probably wouldn't bother.

Welcome to the cloud then. : ) It's the future of computing. Also, it will trickle down to car dashboards, we'll just need to wait a decade or two for car manufacturers to adopt new technology.

This has me wondering, actually. My current car has 30.ooo km service interval, in spite of all the start and stop technology putting strain on engine and it being Italian which supposedly should mean it could require towing to the dealer several times during this period. No such thing and the engine runs smooth as butter after 3 years, no oil consumption whatsoever. And now - why would I have to service my new Lexus every 15k km, which is even less than your 10k miles, and this in spite of the fact that for good third of the distance ICE should be shut down? Not getting the logic.