Dynamic Dash Material

I'm sure I have read somewhere that it is possible to get the dynamic dash in leather but without going for the whole dynamic plus option.

Could someone please confirm if this is true or not, how much it is, and if it is a dealer option or done at the factory?

I've ordered a dynamic and although haven't seen the dash covering get the impression from posts that the leather is much nicer than the standard textured finish of the dynamic. However, I don't want to go for the plus pack as I feel the seats are a bit over the top for a car like this.

It's not possible I'm afraid.

(08-08-2011 09:35am)gmaker Wrote:  Could someone please confirm if this is true or not, how much it is, and if it is a dealer option or done at the factory?

You can order it as a spare part (Prestige Oxford Black Leather). The cost is under £600 - (this includes both sides of the dashboard) but does not include fitting.

Have you seen the Dynamic dash? its ok, don't think you need to worry about the leather in fact I think the prestige with the leather dash is a bit OTT. Had a look at 40 cars yesterday at the drive event in York.

Well I am assured that the dash on my FFRR is leather but it most certainly is not! It is also the same soft feel material of the Dynamic and while several of my friends have commented how lovely the acres of the stuff on the FFRR dash is the one thing they all comment is how good an imitation it is. It just doesn't have the feel of leather.................... and stitches in leather look like stitches in leather, not moulded into the material, but it is very convincing! Will try to get a photo and post it. The Dynamic I drove I didn't really notice the dash topper

FFRR dash topper




This is the real thing on a door trim and a chair

The most important parts to have in real leather are the ones you touch - steering wheel, seat facings, door pulls. There's little point having leather where you don't touch it unless it is good quality leather. Lower quality leather has grain embossed into it between a pair of rollers.

There's no doubting the quality of the Prestige leather but I do wonder how many people are fretting about the leather while ignoring things like better headlights and adaptive damping. This is first and foremost a car, not your sitting room sofa.

I quite agree Mark, I would rather have the finish the car comes with and use the money that it would cost to change the dash over to something from another model in the range to buy something safety related or a space saver tyre

(08-08-2011 06:49pm)mark_n Wrote:  The most important parts to have in real leather are the ones you touch - steering wheel, seat facings, door pulls. There's little point having leather where you don't touch it unless it is good quality leather. Lower quality leather has grain embossed into it between a pair of rollers.

There's no doubting the quality of the Prestige leather but I do wonder how many people are fretting about the leather while ignoring things like better headlights and adaptive damping. This is first and foremost a car, not your sitting room sofa.

Maybe because many are very style/image contious and have ordered the car just based on looks (and maybe the RR logo) without test driving it or reading a review

(08-08-2011 08:51pm)Gorjan Wrote:  Maybe because many are very style/image contious and have ordered the car just based on looks (and maybe the RR logo) without test driving it or reading a review

…..that must then be pretty much all most of us on this forum….. see the poll conducted on the topic.

33 votes cast, 30 of them prestige interior

The issue at hand here is not the choices people make or tradeoffs done, it is LR's market segmentation strategy that forces us to go down one or the other path.

If the poll's anything to go by most of us like bits of both variants and if LR would ever make it an option that would be the preferred choice for most.