DJ Sleep

Ok, so it was inevitable! This morning I managed to scuff the front and rear passenger side alloys on my FSport avoiding an errant lorry driver. They look terrible (see attached). I popped in to a wheel refurb shop in town to see how much it would be to recondition them and the chap said that he wouldn’t be able to match the finish on the wheels, in fact he said it was a finish he had never seen before. Has anyone else tried to recondition their wheels yet and come across the same problem? Just for clarity I opted for the Nisshoku 18” wheels and not the standard FSport wheels.

Welcome to the Forum David, please post some pics of the beast! Thanks mate. Roger that, i'll upload some to the gallery tomorrow.

The Vixen! I'm 35 and your wife has cut me deep. I plumbed for a black FSport with the chrome alloy and spoiler upgrades and they screem "i'm not old", as well as some other less wanted things perhaps. I love my new IS! Yesterday morning I caught my wife looking from my car to hers (15 plate E-Class, also black with sporty wheels) and back again. I asked "whats up?" half expecting some trite remark about Mercs being far superior, blah, blah, blah. She looked at me with sad eyes and responded "your car makes mine look outdated". Victory! My point? The new styling of Lexus cars, which is gradually being introduced, will drive down (no pun intended) the average age of it's clientele by some margin. Obviously due to affordability reasons Lexus will not be engaged by buyers in their early twenties but, I am confident that there will be a concerted shift from cream interiors to black over the next few years as the vehicles look more and more cutting edge. Well played Lexus, you have won back my business!