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I hated it too, particularly given the coating can and will deteriorate and soften just like that on the ***** etc.
My solution: Purchased a 997 seat cover for 50 bucks on Ebay, melted the tabs and removed the silver shift gate and had that leather professionally sewn onto the thing and then reassembled it.
You can contact exclusive option and they will leather wrap just about anything. If I remember correctly they have wrapped the silver center portion. I just bought a oem leather one from another member and it looks similar to what TTurboRoo has.
Exclusive Options will bend you over and send you to Boston for that piece. They advertised that piece on Ebay for something like 900 and wanted exactly that to just send me the leather for application to my own piece. Simply would not work with me other than to sell me their piece actually. That was exactly why I simply bought a seat cover for the nice tight grain leather, then went to a local upholstery shop, matched the stitching thread and had them cover it for a couple hundred bucks!
We simply wanted to emulate the factory piece since you actually cannot order that piece (an Exclusive Option offering) covered in leather from a Porsche dealer without the VIN # of a car that came with that piece FROM the factory. So we used the photo in the 997TT Factory Options Book as a model and did it ourselves for a third of the price.
You can buy that plastic piece on Ebay for 65 today, do whatever you want to it and put it on your car when you are happy with it! It would be very simple to cover the silver too or fashion a stitched boot!
This modular leather trim part is a great upgrade for Tiptronic and PDK equipped 997 models. We offer these full leather shift trims for 997.1 and 997.2 in factory leather colors with matching or deviated stitching. These parts are very close to OEM factory leather parts.
Exclusive Option 997 PDK Leather Trim in Cocoa Leather
Our price has been always been 369+core. We stock most OEM leather parts and allow for core exchange for most of our items.
Just for clarification we have NEVER advertised this item on Ebay for that 900 price. The product member "TTurboRoo" must have seen was probably from another company.
Please feel free to PM me for details or questions regarding these leather items. As a forum sponsor we have special offers for forum members and are here at your service for all your 997 leather needs.
Perhaps it WAS a different company inasmuch as I do not see anything on your site with the Tiptronic shift bezel, only the PDK. I would have paid 369 in a heartbeat, not to have to have it manufactured myself!!
Exclusive Options will bend you over and send you to Boston for that piece. They advertised that piece on Ebay for something like 900 and wanted exactly that to just send me the leather for application to my own piece. Simply would not work with me other than to sell me their piece actually. That was exactly why I simply bought a seat cover for the nice tight grain leather, then went to a local upholstery shop, matched the stitching thread and had them cover it for a couple hundred bucks!
We simply wanted to emulate the factory piece since you actually cannot order that piece (an Exclusive Option offering) covered in leather from a Porsche dealer without the VIN # of a car that came with that piece FROM the factory. So we used the photo in the 997TT Factory Options Book as a model and did it ourselves for a third of the price.
You can buy that plastic piece on Ebay for 65 today, do whatever you want to it and put it on your car when you are happy with it! It would be very simple to cover the silver too or fashion a stitched boot!
Can we find VIN# of a car that has this option from autotrader?
06-13-2016, 11:08 PM
Leather tiptronic cover??!?
