Red needles, how come?

[The Lexus Enthusiast]

Hi everyone,

I saw this ad recently on Car and Classic. It is a 2005, thus facelift of course, LS430, however the speedometer needles are red! All facelifts had white speedometer needles and the previous non facelifts all had red. I saw this phenomenon in a ls430 brochure, the car pictured was left hand drive EU spec and I also saw this years ago on another facelift for sale on eBay. but have never seen it on any other facelift 430. Have been dumbfounded by it for ages. Is it that easy to swap the needles for a different colour? 

Can anyone explain it?

Hope it's okay to post the picture from the listing here. 

Thanks 

Alex 

 

[ambermarine]

Maybe its a retrofit after a failure.

[The Lexus Enthusiast]

5 hours ago, ambermarine said:

Maybe its a retrofit after a failure.

Perhaps. A long time ago I wanted to swap the red needles for white ones but could never be sure if this was doable. Perhaps you actually can? It's a shame that the photo is not sharp enough to see if the whole cluster is from a pre facelift or wether it's just the needles. Still doesn't explain why the 430 brochure I have shows just one picture of a facelift with these red needles but the rest of the pictures in the brochure have all white needles in the cars. Maybe Lexus just forgot and made a few with red ha ha! 

Alex