Just the leather cowl cover or the whole enchilada?
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My trusted source (an active Porsche tech) told me the job's posted standard labor time is 7.3 hours and it's pretty involved. It doesn't look like I will find much lower price....
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Oh, are we starting a thread of all the stupid sheet we've blown our money on over the years? Count me in for installing leather interior and a $300 steering wheel re-wrap on my kid's 2000 Tacoma! Whatever.
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Ha ha. They would have to create a new sub forum just for that if we started doing so.
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The dealer is having a hard time to determine the correct parts. Because they had agreed to match the price by the online supplier, I decided to buy the parts from them. I think it's 981-552-101-20-A11 for the dash (black w/o Sport Chrono) and 981-552-021-00-A11 for the cowl but am not 100% sure. Especially the cowl (the parts catalog calls it "instrument box") is a mystery because the catalog doesn't say "leather" anywhere. So I asked the dealer to make sure these were the correct parts and they are struggling. I told them to call Porsche on Monday and ask them.
Does anyone here happen to know the part #'s of the regular black leather dash and cowl for a 2015 Boxster S without Sport Chrono?
Does anyone here happen to know the part #'s of the regular black leather dash and cowl for a 2015 Boxster S without Sport Chrono?
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The dealer is having a hard time to determine the correct parts. Because they had agreed to match the price by the online supplier, I decided to buy the parts from them. I think it's 981-552-101-20-A11 for the dash (black w/o Sport Chrono) and 981-552-021-00-A11 for the cowl but am not 100% sure. Especially the cowl (the parts catalog calls it "instrument box") is a mystery because the catalog doesn't say "leather" anywhere. So I asked the dealer to make sure these were the correct parts and they are struggling. I told them to call Porsche on Monday and ask them.
Does anyone here happen to know the part #'s of the regular black leather dash and cowl for a 2015 Boxster S without Sport Chrono?
Does anyone here happen to know the part #'s of the regular black leather dash and cowl for a 2015 Boxster S without Sport Chrono?
Key is the codes:
098 = LHD
639 = Sport Chrono Package
640 = Sport Chrono Plus Package
980 = Leather Package
981 = Leather Equipement, without seat cover
981 552 101 20 A11 = leather dash
981 552 021 00 A11 = cowl / instrument box is only offered one way. It is coded for both 980 and 981.
Find it funny your dealer doesn’t know how to read a parts catalog.
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Your part numbers seem correct.
Key is the codes:
098 = LHD
639 = Sport Chrono Package
640 = Sport Chrono Plus Package
980 = Leather Package
981 = Leather Equipement, without seat cover
981 552 101 20 A11 = leather dash
981 552 021 00 A11 = cowl / instrument box is only offered one way. It is coded for both 980 and 981.
Find it funny your dealer doesn’t know how to read a parts catalog.
Key is the codes:
098 = LHD
639 = Sport Chrono Package
640 = Sport Chrono Plus Package
980 = Leather Package
981 = Leather Equipement, without seat cover
981 552 101 20 A11 = leather dash
981 552 021 00 A11 = cowl / instrument box is only offered one way. It is coded for both 980 and 981.
Find it funny your dealer doesn’t know how to read a parts catalog.
If the cowl is only offered one way (leather?), where will one find the plastic cowl like the one that my car currently has?
This dealer is a small VW/Audi/Porsche dealership. I suspect their parts dept is not dedicated to Porsche parts.
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For the dash Slush technology = Plastic
981 does not mean model in this case.
For the cowl... it is weird they don’t list the plastic one. It might have been discontinued? Or a mistake? I looked up the one you have for part number and it is roughly $600... which would indicate it is leather?
Parts catalog can be weird sometimes... verbiage does not translate and sometime things are missing.
Tried to find it online... other sources and even looked on other country parts catalogs with no success.
Suncoast sells a complete leather dash retrofit... which includes upper, lower, glove box and cowl... though not cheap.
https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/981DASH.html
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I can’t help with the parts but when you do have the dealer install the parts you should ask if they can weigh some of the larger pieces of both and compare them. It would be great to have a secondary comparison of this......yeah I’m being selfish on this one but these swaps don’t happen every day.
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For the dash Slush technology = Plastic
981 does not mean model in this case.
For the cowl... it is weird they don’t list the plastic one. It might have been discontinued? Or a mistake? I looked up the one you have for part number and it is roughly $600... which would indicate it is leather?
Parts catalog can be weird sometimes... verbiage does not translate and sometime things are missing.
Tried to find it online... other sources and even looked on other country parts catalogs with no success.
Suncoast sells a complete leather dash retrofit... which includes upper, lower, glove box and cowl... though not cheap.
https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/981DASH.html
When I searched some of the parts numbers in GetPorscheParts.com website, the slush technology (= plastic) 981 552 101 11 DK4 came out as "black, w/ leather, w/o Chrono pkg". Now seeing "980" in the model column, it could be leather. In the meantime, 981 552 101 20 A11 was described as "black, w/ leather, w/o Sport pkg" on the same website. I wasn't aware that a Sport Package was offered for the 981 Boxsters. What's the difference between I980 (Leather Package) and I981 (Leather Equipment, without Seat Covers)? Which one applies to my case?
As for the cowl/instrument box, all of them in this category are under I980/981 (Leather Pkg/Leather Equipment) meaning they must be leather.
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I wouldn’t go by parts supplier discriptions... they aren’t always accurate. I double check parts resalers that had physical samples photographed with part numbers... example:
https://teile.com/en/porsche-parts-s...ard-lining/109
https://teile.com/en/porsche-parts-s...ard-lining/109
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I wouldn’t go by parts supplier discriptions... they aren’t always accurate. I double check parts resalers that had physical samples photographed with part numbers... example:
https://teile.com/en/porsche-parts-s...ard-lining/109
https://teile.com/en/porsche-parts-s...ard-lining/109
981 552 101 20 A11 - Leather dash, black, w/o Sport Chrono
981 552 021 00 A11 - Cowl/instrument box, leather (?)
I will have the dealer call Porsche to double check on Monday.
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I can’t help with the parts but when you do have the dealer install the parts you should ask if they can weigh some of the larger pieces of both and compare them. It would be great to have a secondary comparison of this......yeah I’m being selfish on this one but these swaps don’t happen every day.
When the time comes you will have to remind me because I may very well forget.
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The parts are on order!
Since they happened to be in the U.S. (only one of each is here), I will get them fairly soon. I will have to store them until the car comes out of the hibernation in April. This means I will get to weigh them before they are installed.
Since they happened to be in the U.S. (only one of each is here), I will get them fairly soon. I will have to store them until the car comes out of the hibernation in April. This means I will get to weigh them before they are installed.
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As I was appreciating this photo of Suicide Jockey's gorgeous leather dash, I realized that I would need a few more leather bits than just the dash and cowl. They are the center cover and the defroster trims. I'll tell the dealer tomorrow to add these parts to my order. Now this is what my parts list looks like:
- 981 552 101 20 A11 - dash
- 981 552 021 00 A11 - cowl
- 981 552 151 01 5Q0 - center cover
- 981 552 375 00 5Q0 - defroster trim (left)
- 981 552 376 00 5Q0 - defroster trim (right)