I don't like leather seats.

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes)
10/21/2016 at 19:19 • Filed to: None

They are too slippery, gets to hot when its hot out, gets to cold when its cold out, wears terribly over time.

Would I be weird to order a Rolls Royce with really nice cloth seats?

DISCUSSION (19)

Probenja > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 19:24

Solution:

Kinja'd!!!

Wool Seats!

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Probenja
10/21/2016 at 19:27

My moms van when I grew up had wool seat covers, they where comfy as fuck.

My bird IS the word > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 19:28

Artificial leather = best leather.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > My bird IS the word
10/21/2016 at 19:49

Hand stitched leather=best leather

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 19:57

Years ago I sold a friend my old E21 320i. He never really liked the look of the sheepskin seat covers I kept on it and removed them shortly after taking ownership. Then he started complaining about the heat of the seats in summer, and how cold they were in winter. Then he saw the price tag on good sheepskin covers and realized that perhaps the aesthetics could be overlooked.

I’ve got a cloth interior but would really like to find some appropriate sheepskins. Damn those things are comfortable...

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > Probenja
10/21/2016 at 19:58

I love Toyota’s reasoning behind these. That leather is too squeaky and would disturb the quiet ambience of the Century. The only car I’d prefer cloth over leather in.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Probenja
10/21/2016 at 20:18

I would do bad things for a Toyota century

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:20

But they look so snazzy.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/21/2016 at 20:21

snazzy = shit.

RPM esq. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:22

I exaggerate only slightly when I say that I have never encountered a more obviously, incomprehensibly wrong take in my entire life. Leather looks 1000 times better and wears 100 times better than fabric if you take any care of it at all. It is nearly impossible to stain as long as it isn’t white and will never smell. Fabric will tear eventually, because its fibers will break down over time and it will stretch. Leather, if you condition it, like, once a year, and don’t park outside in direct sunlight in Arizona every day, may wear like a well-worn pair of shoes but probably will never tear, and in anything worth driving is no more expensive than fabric to fix or replace if it does.* Are there plenty of older cars out there with terrible leather interiors because they were never maintained at all? Of course. But every fabric interior in the world looks like a flophouse bedspread after 10 years or so, and is about as desirable to touch. In a used car, the previous owner’s lifetime of ass sweat can be wiped off a leather interior and forgotten. In a fabric interior, it is in the interior forever, and in the foam inside, along with traces of every food item they ever touched and every fart they ever released

* The exception to the tearing point is Porsche 944 interiors, which used the thinnest leather imaginable. But the 944 fabric interiors wear just as bad and are actually more expensive to replace, so.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > RPM esq.
10/21/2016 at 20:26

Still not convincing me.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:27

Leather for life, because kids and cleaning up spills.

RPM esq. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:30

The only possible rational grounds to prefer fabric over leather (or even fake leather) is that sometimes leather gets hot, but that’s like choosing to eat dry bread instead of steak for a lifetime because sometimes you forget to check if your steak is too hot before putting it in your mouth.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:31

Leather will last longer for a car that is driven occasionally.

For your typical everyday disposable commodity cars, cloth is more guilt-free to live with—as in you won’t end up caring about perfect upkeep as much.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > RPM esq.
10/21/2016 at 20:32

I’m a cheap bastard.

RPM esq. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:51

So buy an interior you’ll never have to repair or replace. A year’s worth of maintenance costs $5. Even for a Rolls Royce.

https://amzn.com/B0002V9IFK

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
10/21/2016 at 20:52

In the long run, leather is cheaper to maintain. I used to be a cloth guy, until I got good leather. It isn’t too hot, it doesn’t make me sweat, and seat heaters fix the cold winter seats.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
10/21/2016 at 20:53

Except that everything you eat, drink, sneeze, sweat, or so on, stays on that seat. Every fluid released from your body stays with that cloth. Leather can be wiped off, and treated for longevity.

robbicus > RPM esq.
10/22/2016 at 11:43

Just swinging by to say I love those Meguire’s leather conditioning wipes (thus far).

So easy.