Parking Brake Release Color
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Parking Brake Release Color
I don't know why but the parking brake release is a different color than the rest of the interior. My interior is the ecru/white color and the handle is tanish/yellow. I have noticed the same thing in another 430 with the same colored interior. Is this normal from the factory? If you pull the handle out you can see the ecru color. Is there a way to remove the yellow color?
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The plastic they used for this part may be different then the rest of the interior and that may be why the rest has not discolored.
Last edited by Debonair; May 13, 2009 at 08:55 AM.
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Looks to be fading of the outer shell, but hard to imagine that sun/UV would fade just the handle though, and nothing else. Plus, the handle seems pretty imbedded away down under away from direct light.
Mine is black, so I can't really tell if it's discolored or not. Hopefully the black doesn't fade to yellow too...
Mine is black, so I can't really tell if it's discolored or not. Hopefully the black doesn't fade to yellow too...
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Now that I think about it the same handle on my GS may be discolored too. Hmmm.... Me and my cell phone camera will be right back....
EDIT - So my handle has the same type of discoloration. My interior is gray. I remember noticing this when I purchased my car. If you take a look around the interior, at least in my case, there are no other parts made of this same plastic which explains why we don't notice it anywhere else.
EDIT - So my handle has the same type of discoloration. My interior is gray. I remember noticing this when I purchased my car. If you take a look around the interior, at least in my case, there are no other parts made of this same plastic which explains why we don't notice it anywhere else.
Last edited by Debonair; May 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM.
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everytime I get into my car I notice it and I've always wanted to post and see if other have the same issue, but I get side tracked after that.
I have grey interior. Mine is not as obvious as the ecru picture above. It is very noticable though. I figured it was either fade (bought the car used so don't know what it originally looked like) or Lexus did that to make it more easily identifiable to pull.
Guess it was the first of the two.
I have grey interior. Mine is not as obvious as the ecru picture above. It is very noticable though. I figured it was either fade (bought the car used so don't know what it originally looked like) or Lexus did that to make it more easily identifiable to pull.
Guess it was the first of the two.
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Looks to be fading of the outer shell, but hard to imagine that sun/UV would fade just the handle though, and nothing else. Plus, the handle seems pretty imbedded away down under away from direct light.
Mine is black, so I can't really tell if it's discolored or not. Hopefully the black doesn't fade to yellow too...
Mine is black, so I can't really tell if it's discolored or not. Hopefully the black doesn't fade to yellow too...
I also have a 96 LS400 with the tan interior. It matches the surrounding pieces exactly with no fading.
The 96 looks like the color was molded in the plastic whereas with the 05 it is hard for me to tell if it is painted. It's kinda strange that it is uniformly discolored across the exposed surface which implies to me that it wasn't direct sunlight. It looks like they switched to material (paint or plastic) that was very light sensitive.
Bummer either way. It looks like a part somebody found off another color vehicle.
Last edited by hoonunya; May 13, 2009 at 05:57 PM.
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Why not red?
rather than the off color. I would say another "mismatch" of sub-quality materials, like the interior wood being off colored and not stanned consistently to each other.
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