Interior Trim Repaint

Hi all, So I've been getting more chip marks on my centre console and central divider. I have a Savannah interior and generally there are black scratch marks throughout. Does anyone have any experience of redoing and restoring this piece? Thanks in advance

I believe it's a rubberised paint finish which appears to be pretty hard to replicate and colour match.. I to have Savannah which was quite badly knocked about.. I think it suffers damage looks wise easier than most of the darker colours.. My solution was that I bought some parts from a breakers (Douglas Valley) that luckily was in super condition.. other bits I've bought new from Porsche.. it now looks spot on... unfortunately it's quite a rare colour so parts are scarce.

Going through the same problem with mine as I have a terracotta interior which is also hard to match etc. I am debating just changing the colour and painting it body colour as can't find any replacements bits even in poor condition ii would take so could paint them and preserve my original ones.

I got pretty good results by sponging on leather dye. Unless you really want to go mad with filler & sanding then you still get little indentations but when they're the same colour as the rest of the interior it's hard to spot. For thirty quid of materials and a few hours work it made a huge difference.

If you cannot find a good quality replacement part, then I would suggest getting the centre console and trim re-painted. A company like Wicked Coatings should be able to match the colour of your parts and they also offer a 'soft touch' finish, which should be very close to OEM. They also offer a postal return service, you would just need to remove and post your parts, which is not difficult. A number of us here have used them in the past (albeit for mostly painted finishes), you can see some examples here at the end of the thread - http://911uk.com/viewtopic.php?t=116174

Thanks chaps, annoyingly I've conceded it may be difficult to colour match. I keep an eye out on ebay for any Savannah parts. I specced the car with a small aluminum pack, so gear, handbrake and sills. I may look at getting it done in body colour or aluminum finish. I will check out the link provided.

I was going to suggest going for body colour or silver as you say which was an option from new - my ocean blue has a silver centre console. You say you specced the car out - have you owned from new? Kudos if so!

For some reason I thought that part was covered in leather? If it is paint then try Cif (Jiff) as it is excellent at removing all sorts of marks from paint and vinyl. If it is leather then re finishing with dye is quite straightforward. The leather doctor does a kit. You get a base colour and 2 tints which allows you to manipulate the final colour match. I recently re finished my friends MX5 seats which were light beige. Last weekend i re finished my driver seat with pleasing results but they are black.

Those results look very good. Would you mind sharing where you got your dye from please?

Mine is Graphite Grey and had the usual skanky rubberised paint on the centre tunnel cover and a few small bare spots around the dash. I found that Swissvax here in Australia had most of the Porsche interior colours available. I bought a small leather touch up kit and repaired any bare spots. I bit the bullet and pulled out the centre tunnel cover (easy job as it turned out). Then I realised that nothing was going to clean or stick to the old rubberised paint/dye. So I stripped it all off, then sanded for about 2 hrs with finer and finer wet and dry paper, and it looked really good. Added some good plastic primer as a seal and then the Graphite Grey paint. The surface is now tough, won't scratch and looks great.

Sure - it was Gliptone Liquid Leather Scuffmaster. Just give them your colour code and they'll match the original pretty much spot on.

Great thanks for that.