Hi guys,

next little problem with my car. I noticed it several weeks ago that I have several black spots on the full leather dashboard near the windshield, where the leather seemed to rubbed off. Possibly it is even no leather
Doesnt look that good on tan leather. Its like a black line (looks like plastic) at the windshield vents(codriver's side) and behind the speedometer near the windshield .

I am pretty sure that cannot be wear and tear at a mileage of 23.000, non sunshine state car. I would consider this more as a quality problem.

Do you think the warranty can fix this or what can I do to get it look nice again.

The last thing I want is, that these spots get bigger when I clean the dashboard.

There is also a bit wear and tear at the PCM, but i think that a common problem at a 997.

Please no comments about "I told you so at this price" etc.. Slowly I realised I should have paid a bit more for a flawless vehicle.


Its a pretty small thing which nobody would recognize except me, but it drives me bananas.


Regards,
gee

 

It the car is under warranty it should be covered. If not, ask your dealer who does their leather repair work. A good leather guy can make it look like new again.

 

I have the leather dash on my car and I do not think the area you are talking about is leather.

 

Yes the car is under CPO-warranty.

 

Just to let you know CPO won't cover cosmetics . CPO is just about worthless unless you have a catastrophic failure.

 

Not necessarily. While I don't know if it will cover the OP's particular problem, my brother had a front suspension bushing, front rotors and a few other things fixed under CPO both on a 996 Turbo and on a 996 Carrera. Those are not under the catastrophic failure category. But it is true that it doesn't cover everything as a new car warranty does since it didn't cover a problem with the car not wanting to start every once in a while that had to do with either an alarm module or related hardware (cannot remember exactly).

 

That area is plastic, not leather. In fact, you can upgrade it to leather when you spec your car.

 

Well okay its plastic - as I thought. To be honest the "full leather" package is just a joke....to get it real full leather you pay additonal 7.000$ (excluded all this wired leather stuff like vents)....

So they might just put some paint on it or what ever.

In my previous 7-Series at several places the soft paint from the buttons sloughed and BMW replaced the buttons without any charge - it was a known flaw/construction mistake.

As far as I know Porsche has with the 997 also problems with sloughed soft paint(A/C Buttons etc.). So I would say it should be covered by the warranty - at least I hope so. It used to be a 90.000$ car and there shouldnt such things happen - doesnt matter if new or used. If I would drive a Chevy Cobalt or something I wouldnt say anything, but it is a Porsche...
For me it is enough that the even use such cheap soft paint all over the place.

If the warranty covers only catastrophic failures - I dont need it....

 

Yes, "full leather" is indeed anything but!