I know a guy with a full leather 993 Turbo.

The gas filler door and cavity is covered in leather, so is the "boot".

20 feet away if the windows are down you can still smell it.

 

My 83 has whats called 'leather to sample ' interior on the invoice - not everything as in the pic above, but closer than most I have seen. Includes the horn push, and the luggage cover- which has white zippers to match the rest of the white. See P110 of Brian Long's 928 book.
jp 83 Euro S AT 53k

 

Rob: This is very interesting!

For all I know, in the 928, they used regular vinyl dashes that had blemishes, and then cut away some corners to make room for the leather. This only left the foam exposed at those corners.

On the 996 you show, it seems there is no vinyl under the leather; it's clued directly to the foam. I would think that the foam is not as strong of a surface, and the leather could just separate from the foam below the glue. No matter now good the glue, this doesn't seem to be such a great solution.

Personally, I'm not convinced that leather is such a great material for dashboards anyway. It looks and feels superb, but given the light and heat it's exposed to, it has to dry and shrink sooner or later...

 

We need the Porsche engineers to redesign the cow.

 

I think Paul Champagne or Rob Budd had commented on how Porsche wetted and overstretched the leather and didn't utilize it well for long-life. I could be wrong. Definitely won't be the first time.

 

Oh, if I only had leather covered pod *****.