Car Seat Covers

[littlebrooklyn]

Just wondered if anyone else has bought a seat cover for the drivers seat. I keep on reading about how the drivers seat is going to show the wear a lot more and wondered if that applies to leather as well as fabric seats

I looked on the Mercedes site and they are charging £66 for the seat cover and £19 for the headrest cover, which does seem a bit extortionate

Lyn

 

[pascal]

I personally would never put a seatcover on leather seats.

The wearing point on most cars is the outer edge of the seat back and seat bottom. This is caused from drivers sliding into cars over many years, and leather is less affected by this. The leather on my last CE was still pefect after 12 years, except for the shrinkage/cracking of the piping, which is easily replaced.

Pascal

 

[SLinKyjoe]

Yes....it seems a waste of money on leather seats...

when i went to look at a Lotus Elise they had a problem. the suede type cover offered the best grip for the seat and for decent performance was the covering to have. this stopped you sliding out off the seat under hard braking...

however, as anyone who as tried to get in or out of one will tell, you must have leather as you can slide in and out easier. plus it wont wear out anywhere near as fast....so thats why they tell you to buy leather unless it is a track day car....

the SLK is similar if you have short legs like me. you have to move the seat forward quite far. and with the doors being quite big you either move the seat back or slide in and out. the makes leather a must IMO.

as far as wear of your seat in concerned....if the car has been to the moon and back the next buyer will expect a degree of wear...so i wouldnt bother about it.


then again if you have a dog it would stop dog hairs and such like....and saves shooting the dog...altho that would be easier...

 

[nicky]

why buy a car with leather interior and ruin it fitting some tacky seat covers..
you buy a car to use not to try and preserve it for the next persons benifit.....

 

[The Editor]

Car seat leather is pretty indestructible when you think of what it has to endure... Extreme high temps when the car is left parked in the sun for hours and the opposite when left outside in winter months but what people forget is leather needs feeding !!!

Use a GOOD quality leather cleaner and follow up with a moisturiser for leather. Do this about twice a year and that's it... You seats will stay looking pretty much like new, but you do need to look after them.

Now excuse me, I'm off to moisturise me seats !!

 

[littlebrooklyn]

Well thank you all for your replies, I guess we will just leave the seats as they are and make sure we look after them all well :-D

We had some funny seats in our last car, part leather and part something that resembled suede but wasn't and the drivers seat had worn pretty badly after only 5yrs and we didn't want that happening again

Lyn

 

[OlafMaxwell]

The leather can be replaced apparently quite easily. I have 97k, am considering doing this.