Protecting Leather Dashboard...

Check with WeatherTech and California Car Cover. I have a roll-up WeatherTech for my Portofino. I prefer the folding ones from California Car Cover,but they don't have one yet for my car.

 

I use Leatherique on my 599 leather dash and a weather tech windshield sun cover.

 

I have these for all 3 of our vehicles. They are vehicle specific and do an excellent job of reflecting the sun in FL. Coupled with a tinted windshield for when I'm driving, I'm doing all I can to protect the dash.

https://www.covercraft.com/us/en/shop/ferrari-california/sunscreens/

I put velcro tabs on mine and velcro tabs on a laminated window sticker so I can mount it for car shows.

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I use two methods.

Method 1 - I had all the glass in my car wrapped with a high quality UV-&-heat-filtering film. Because it's designed for windshields the film transmits most of the visible light but really cuts heat and UV. One of the best mods I made to my car.

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Method 2 - sun shade, bought mine from CarID.com back in 2013, made by Intro-Tech® $39.95 - fits well.

The sun visors in the Cali are too tiny to hold the sunshade so you slip the upper edge in between the glass windshield and the leather headliner that goes around the windshield. It stays in place and is easy to remove.

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BTW, about leather treatments...

...the leather in our cars are coated with polyurethane so they don't really have pores like natural leather. I'm not sure of all the reasons why the leather is treated this way but it definitely makes it easy to match colours and polyurethane is tough and water resistant. It can also make it easier to professionally repair minor damage.

Anyway, regular leather treatment will not work on this type of leather. You need to get stuff that is specifically made for polyurethane-treated leather. Using the wrong stuff may also compromise the polyurethane... if the stuff contains an ingredient that affects polyurethane.

In effect, you are applying treatment to protect the polyurethane, not so much the leather.

 

The folding sunshade from California Car Cover works for all years of California/Portofino. It is called Ultimate Reflector and is # FR-03-R.

 

Thanks for your valuable information. So if I may ask which would be such product that could protect polyurethane?


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Intro-Tech Automotive makes the folding sunshade that I mentioned above. They are the best that I have tried.

 

Essentially, do not wax leather than has a polyurethane (rubber) surface coating as it obviously won't work and leaves an off-white coat of greasy wax on the rubber that attracts dirt. There are cleaner/conditioners that are designed for leather on modern car interiors which are different from the leather in old cars. Just check the product labels.

I use Meguiar's. I can see it work because my car has cuoio interior and I have a nasty habit of wearing new navy blue jeans that continually bleed dye even after many washes (Guess brand's one of the worst). The cleaner removes the dye in quick order, leaves no film, just makes the leather softer than before.

Also good if the product protects against UV.

 

Thanks for your input!. I've gone to Meguiar's website and they seem to have quite a huge list of products!. I too have a cuoio interior in the Portofino so I guess your experience would be very much appreciated which products do you use from their range?