mafpolo

Currently have a 21 S with slate gray and majove interior. Looking at a Turbo with chalk and graphite blue interior. I have not seen it in person yet, but in pictures it looks extremely light. Is the chalk very hard to keep clean?

Needsdecaf

Extremely hard? No. Require more work than black? Yes. More work than slate and Mojave? Nah, about the same. I would imagine slate / Mojave would be similar to my Umber / Tartufo interior on my 958 Cayenne.

it’s totally worth it. My wife gets a ton of compliments on it. In person it is a very, very light gray.

jo2134

I specced the chalk interior and have no regrets (so far). It looks really clean and gives a high end feel to the interior imo. I ceramic coated my interior which I think is a must on light colors. So far, any mark or color transfer has rubbed right out with some moisture.

ctdwp

Just got our Cayenne Coupe this weekend and it has the Chalk/Black interior. It’s not too light and is more of a light grey vs. white. Of course this is replacing a Model X with bright white interior so it looks dark compared to that.

I will be applying Gyeon Leather Shield to it to help keep it clean…that worked well on our white seats.

Quadcammer

Didn't you just buy the s like 2 months ago? You don't like it?

Craig

I previously owned a ‘20 S with that combination. No real issues — cleaned the seat bolsters occasionally. Beautiful interior. Go for it!

LDT

I had chalk/graphite in my 2020 Cayenne and loved it. Still looked new when I sold it last year. Occasionally cleaned the bolsters with leather cleaner. Only 2 adults in our fam with occasional teenage grandsons in the rear seat.

PHX

Had that in our 2022 911 and loved it. It didn't require any more maintenance or cleaning love than any other color interior would have, however, just based on my OCD freakiness, I did give it more attention than it needed, just to stay ahead of the game.

It is an amazing color and really adds to the vehicle, if you ask me.

craig001

I have the full leather option in Chalk and it's no worse than any other color interior IMHO.

mafpolo

I did recently get a 2021 S. I was looking for a turbo or an S.....preferably a turbo. When one buys preowned, it's hard to find exactly what you want. I missed an S that had everything I wanted, including the colors. I ended up finding this S, which was is really close. I knew I didn't like the RS Spyder wheels and would be replacing them. Even though I had seen Quartzite often, I never paid attention to how dark it is. I do love the slate and mojave gray leather interior. The one thing that is missing from my S is sport exhaust. Then this turbo appeared, and it has everything I want (sport exhaust and even Burmester )and then some. I wanted to make sure that the chalk leather wouldn't be a pain in the rear to maintain. Now it is just a decision of whether I want to spend the $ for the difference.

Needsdecaf

Here’s our chalk leather after at least 90 days since cleaning. It’s coated. The camera makes it look worse than it is.

The leather is protected and I cleaned it with Colourlock Mild Cleaner. I also have strong and dye remover if needed. It was not. This clean took all of maybe 90 seconds.

MaxLTV

I got Mojave beige, and after 5.5 years of use as utility truck transporting bikes and kids with lots of sports equipment and routine eating full meals in the car, it's spotless. Any dirt is more visible on light color, but it comes off with a regular leather cleaner. Spilled colourful drink and sharpie stains required isopropyl alcohol but also came out without a trace or damage to the leather. It's quite durable. The only issue is when the upper layer cracks and exposes the base leather underneath, that leather gets stained much more easily and is much harder to clean. But it's only starting to happen in deep creases of te driver's seat after 5 years of heavy use, so not a huge deal.

mafpolo

Can you use Gyeon Q2 Leather Shield on Porsche leather? I have read where it is not recommended on certain leather.

Ironman88

Gyeon leather shield on Porsche leather? I don't know the answer to that.

If you've not yet purchased that product, then I would second the recommendation made above about the Colourlock products. Colourlock provides outstanding leather care products for Porsche (and other makes of course as well.)

In addition to cleaning the leather, Colourlock makes an excellent leather conditioning / leather shield product that helps reduce premature leather wear in areas that experience more abrasive use (seat bolsters for example). It also helps reduce the incidence of denim dye transfer on leather - which on lighter colored leather is especially beneficial.

https://www.colourlock.com/?gad_sour...BoC7YMQAvD_BwE

mafpolo

Does Colorurlock protect teh other parts of the leather on the full leather interior, such as the dash, upper parts of the doors, center console, and the grab handles? I want to protect the center console from arms/elbow stains and the grab handles from hand stains. Also....the steering wheel from hand oils. Any reason NOT to use the Gyeon leather ceramic product? According to Gyeon and others, the leather (non club leather) on most cars today have a clear-coat, which needs protection.