Well my 05 and 06 are both cracked now

05 cracked from both defroster vents, both cracked over airbag

Curious if you climate makes a difference

My 06 is from tenn.
05 from fla.

 

Might be best to ask where your car is from as I'd bet at this point that a lot of us did not buy our car new and our dash was cracked before we got it.

Though I will say this... mine WAS just cracked around the airbag until I had my windshield replaced. The stress of removing the old windshield caused much more cracking to occur.

 

my 05 was sold new in fla, but after 09 slowly made its way to n.j. sitting in nc. for a year or 2


funny thing is my 01 dodge ram came from texas (hot as hell dry) 1 winter here in n.j. and the plastic dash cracked


maybe these severe temp swings season to season makes em fail faster?

 

Could definitely be the temp swings. My gaps are pretty big right now due to the freezing cold weather, but in the heat of the summer the dash swells enough that you almost can't see the cracks at all.

 

Humid and hot in the summer here. Below freezing and snow in the winter. Cracks definitely get worse in the cold, but mostly disappear when cabin warms up.

 

I have the airbag cracks only on the dash. My truck has been a Colorado car from the start, but so far, even with temp swings from summer through winter, and bigger gaps in the winter, I'm seeing only the airbag lines. Someone piped in and let me know that probably the only fix is replacing the whole dash, but since it's minor right now, I'll keep the dash.

 

Mine in an 06. I started with the airbag cracks. This winter I had two more big cracks show up. Mine was a northern car for a few years, then to Miami/Orlando, and now resides with me in NW Florida. I'm hoping the cracks shrink once it gets hot!

I've been researching ways to at least fill the cracks. I haven't found anything yet. Wrapping it in leather would be nice like the X5M and Cayenne dashes.

 

My 08 has lived in the Northeast its whole life. Airbag cracks started this winter, which happens to be the first winter that it has sat outside rather than in a garage. Right now it is just the airbag lines that are starting.....

 

Any products to apply that might be a good preventative measure?

It puts the lotion on its skin...

 

I'm a big fan of Aerospace 303 which I've used on my other cars and have no cracking issues. I obviously can't sit here and tell you that it will prevent cracking of the LR3 dash, but I genuinely believe it's a good, non-greasy protectant.