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Has anyone had the the dashboard on their 958.2 start to separate/wrinkle? This started happening on my 2016 Cayenne S. I live just outside Houston and summers can be pretty brutal here, but my Cayenne is normally garaged or in covered parking. First noticed this happening just prior to summer (in April) on passenger side, is now starting a bit on drivers side as well. I assume most upholstery/car interior shops could repair this?
Passenger side dash view from top Passenger side view along dash, can see stapled area pulling away from front of dash. Passenger side view thru windshield - obvious separation. Drivers side, just getting started.
Yours is the leather dash? I'd imagine that will be a lengthy and involved repair, assuming the leather can be moisturized enough to allow for stretching back.
The dash will likely need removal to be able to pull on it properly and to allow for tagging the excess to the underside. If it were anywhere else, I'd weight the cost to the
benefit but being this is the dashboard, my OCD would hospitalize me if left as is.
Have you contacted Porsche? to ask about any goodwill participation.
This is a principally garaged vehicle? and this still happened? I used to wish I had the leather dash, now, not so much.
From: Former Madison, Wisconsin. Now Southwest Georgia, America (not the country of Georgia in Eastern Europe and West Asia)
Originally Posted by ZenicaPA
Yours is the leather dash? I'd imagine that will be a lengthy and involved repair, assuming the leather can be moisturized enough to allow for stretching back.
The dash will likely need removal to be able to pull on it properly and to allow for tagging the excess to the underside. If it were anywhere else, I'd weight the cost to the
benefit but being this is the dashboard, my OCD would hospitalize me if left as is.
Have you contacted Porsche? to ask about any goodwill participation.
This is a principally garaged vehicle? and this still happened? I used to wish I had the leather dash, now, not so much.
That shouldn't happen and should be a warranty item
The car is 5 years old with 84k miles, well out of factory warranty. I do have an aftermarket Fidelity Gold warranty, but highly suspect this is NOT covered.
To the other poster that asked, I bought this Cayenne 2.5 years ago with 54k miles on it, and it's seldom been parked in the sun except for outings/etc since I've owned it - always garaged at home, and in parking garage at work. No idea what conditions original owner stored it in, but this dash issue didn't show up until 2 years or so into my ownership.
I doubt it would be covered by any 3rd party extended warranty, it's not a mechanical part and by no means interferes with the operation of the vehicle.
You best bet is asking a goodwill participation from Porsche. The odds of getting it improve if the car was purchased at a dealer and regularly serviced
by one for maintenance. Everyone likes to assuage the dealers but when things like this happen, they can be a resource. An independent can probably
do this type of work as well, just find a reputable one.
One last tip, a Porsche body shop.
In any of the states I have lived in, body shop labor rates are 1/4 what the least expensive dealer will be. You don't need a diagnosis, you need manual labor.
Body shops replace dashboards all the time. They'd have the tools and experience.
Pay one to remove it. Then pay a shop to fix it, if it can be, and have the same body shop put it back. Your labor charge will be a fraction of what a dealer will charge.
The body shop won't care, work is work and if anything, they won't have to deal with the joy that is an insurance company.
My car has this with a leather dash but not as bad as this. Its been in my list to repair with a leather specialist in my area. Havent had it quoted yet but I suspect somewhere between 300-500 to get it done right.
I assume heat related but it came to me like this (PPI didnt catch it for some reason). Ive since had the windshield tinted with low 70% windshield film to keep the temps cooler because my wife would never use a sunshade.
My 2011 958.1TT's leather dash has been peeling back from the driver side starting at the top left corner, and a bunch of the other 958.1TTs I looked at had peeling leather dash from the passenger side. I've decided to just live with it, but it seems like a common thing.
I bought a 2016 CTTS (sight unseen from Charlotte) last summer and in reviewing the service records saw that the leather dash was replaced as part of the CPO process. It might be a heat and humidity issue, although the car was garaged (the rest of the upholstery was in immaculate condition). Knowing this, I am diligent in using the heat shield so I avoid the same issue in the future. Luckily, I live in San Diego so we don't have extreme temperatures to worry about. I hope you find a good and economical fix.
I've had the issue 2x on consecutive Cayenne GTS' which we both garaged when not in use and in the NE (NY + VT) so I suspect its pretty common and not just a southern states thing sadly - seems to occur around year 5 or 6 in my experience...
"Cayenne leather dash" is the new "997 Carbon fiber trim" of the P-Car world it seems...
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Dash wrinkling/pulling back
