The reason of melted dashboard, it happens to most of the car that also ship to euro due to the so called "green policies" whereby it makes most of the manufacturer to produce the interior with recycled plastic, even my porsche (2011) entire console and my previous fucked up ferrari (2008) steering had this problem.

In euro, it is estimated that 8-12% of the vehicle is made of plastic, and because of them constantly worshiping the mother earth green policies, they have no choice but to make a lot restriction, then this germans decided to use PET/PS/PUR plastic to make their car interior, of course it wont have much problem in their weather, but then when it started to ship into tropical country, the problem started.

Sometimes, all this so called green policies is just another excuses to cut cost, producing inferior quality. PET is definitely cheaper, and when japanese realised this, they follow the trend too.

Trust me, dont live in the myth of weather too hot, or perfume caused this, (tho it has the possibility to crack your dashboard) but a drop of perfume wont make your whole dashboard screwed up. it is the grade of the plastic, made of a recycle grade.

No fix for this, even after you changed your dashboard, expect the same shit to happen again if you always park outside.

I used to work closely with a giant automotive company, in their R&D, this dashboard melting things, are a well known shit in the industry, but i didn't know mazda has followed the trend. Especially a more luxury class that will export to the EU countries and have to apply the EU policies.

This post has been edited by Freemasonry: Dec 31 2016, 07:25 AM