How do you all care for the leather on the dash board - I have Espresso leather. Do you use the same treatment as for the seats? How often do you treat it. With what?

Thanks much,

Ken

 

I treat the same an do it on the same schedule as the rest of the full leather in my CTT.

Leatherique.

Prestine clean.

 

That's what I thought too. Lets see what the MASTER has to say (w00tPORSCHE - I live in Sandpoint Idaho in the summer and he is in Eastern Washington, so I'm sucking up in hopes of having his advice or bribing him with some Festival at Sandpoint tickets or something to come up and do my car!).

 

Any other advice as far as products to use that are quick. Leatherique is nice but too involve.

 

Try Zymol products.

 

I could have sworn that w00t posted on this topic and indicated that standard leather care treatments were not recommended for the dash (on full leather configs.) due to the method Porsche uses to stretch and install the leather dash.I tried to search for w00t's post on this topic here and over at rennlist, but no joy.

 

I use 303 aerospace protectant for the UV protection.

 

WF blue. You are absolutely right. Never use leather conditioner on the non contact leather parts. I mean NEVER. Jace seems to have no problem I guess. The leather is stretched tight in these areas like the doors, center console, dash etc and conditioning it would soften it up to the point where it would become too supple and eventually wrinkle. Trust me on this guys. Did it once and paid the price and that was with the Leatherique rejuvenator oil which BTW is one of the best products for leather conditioning. There is another theory on this area: "The leather of the dash rests upon a metal backing that acts like a frying pan on hot days. This accelerates the drying of the leather which causing premature shrinkage, cracking and hardening. Thus a dash should be treated more often than the seats or door panels."

In my opinion, dash leather needs very little care. Just regular dusting and cleaning once a month or so. Make sure that you use windshield shade when parked outside in the sun. My 997 has natural leather on its dash like my Cayenne and I have not conditioned it even once. Looks factory fresh three years and 20k miles later and it is my daily driver. I use Prestine clean once a month.

 

wootPORSCHE:

After your response I researched info regarding Prestine. In their documentation they recommend 1st using their Rejuvenator Oil product before applying Prestine. Should the Rejuvenator oil be used on the dash leather? thx

 

I've never put anything on any of my dashes, at least eight full leather cars over the years. Never had a problem, even living in Colorado. No problem with my CTT, one year old, never treated, only dusted.