sweet928

I'm fixing up an 80 928 that I just added to my collection. The brown leather dash pulled away in two places. I can see I have a black dash under the brown leather. I assume its a stock back dash under there. Anyone know what to expect when I remove the leather? Did Porsche have to cut down the stock dash at all -- to make the leather fit or could I potentially have a "perfect" dash under my shrunken leather?

Champagne

You do have a stock vinyl dash under the leather. Most of the time, the corners facing the armrests will have been ground down.

Paul

James Bailey

correct the ends are ground off AND the dash vents were cut out.....and they were done quickly and not very pretty.

Jerry Feather

In addition, you may find other cosmetic flaws in the finish of the original dash underneath that have been repaired and smoothed over so they don't show through in the leather. I think the factory used their "seconds" from production to cover with leather.

Jerry Feather

SeanR

Brad W pulled all the crap leather from his '82 dash and underneath the vinyl dash was almost brand new. Thought that was pretty cool.

riviera455

i also removed the shrinked leather from my dash, underneath a fine looking vinyl dash.

Nightfly

So, what type of solvent do you use to remove the adhesive from the vinyl when you take the leather off?

Rob M Budd

Done using your core, $689
Done with one of my cores, $789
in vinyl subtract $100

Rob M Budd

Mineral spirits will work and limit the solvent damage.
Lacquer thinner if the dash is going to be recovered.

Jerry Feather

Go to th auto paint store and get some adhesive remover. That works the best. Jerry Feather

jwillman

So my leather cork dash is shot. I was going to use Rob and by a cork vinyl dash cover and do a self install. As they apparently did some trimming according to previous posts for the leather will I have issues replacing leather with vinyl?

Rob M Budd

No. There is no difference in how it gets installed using leather or vinyl.
It will be a vinyl dash that looks like a leather dash.

jpNcos

Rob that dash looks great!

A dash recover is on my short list, I will be in touch soon.

Rob M Budd

Thanks,

When you're ready, let me know. I usually I have cores in stock if you want to swap it out and save some time.

jpNcos

Car fund is getting pinched for wedding fund at the moment.

It will take me a little longer to stash the cash without drawing unwanted attention.

I did buy a dash mat a while ago. Maybe I can just claim some kind of magic trick and have a new dash "appear" under the cover.