I will post pics of my 4 year old MC CVT with Leatherette seats. they still look perfect and no cracks!

 

gotta love cloth!

I am sorry your seats are cracking. I hope the dealer covers them under warrenty, I will keep my fingers crossed!

 

until you spill something on it and it stains...

each seat material has advantages and disadvantages.

personally i prefer leather because you can clean and condition it and it will stay nice for decades but it has a higher initial cost.

cloth stains the easiest and eventually dry rots, tears or splits but breathes better than leather or vinyl.

vinyl wrinkles then peels and cracks as it ages or on creases that get a lot of wear and you really can't do much about it. it is plastic but costs less than leather.

 

...Nice comeback btw... You would think that someone with 10k posts obviously has spare time on their hands... I would guess they just aren't managing that time very well

 

[quote=creseida;1156585]Until you spill something on it and it stains...

Each seat material has advantages and disadvantages. quote]

Here's a female perspective on cloth seats... If I'm wearing a skirt (particularly a short-type suit skirt), I despise cloth seats because they catch the skirt fabric and make the skirt twist around as I get in and out of the car! This is seriously the biggest single factor as to why I don't have cloth seats. Yes, goofy, but true!

Sorry... I know there are probably more guys than girls on this board, but I couldn't help but complain when the cloth seat topic came up!

-Heather

 

[quote=Detailers Paradise;1160447]Umm,... we'll need to see photographic evidence of this before we can decide to agree or disagree

 

[quote=saakey;1160504]Yeah, yeah, yeah... as I hit "Submit Reply" I thought to myself that I probably just opened a can of worms! No, you don't want to see a crooked, wrinkled skirt... believe me!

 

Heather being a gal myself I understand. my solution is even better I don't wear skirts.

 

Either of you should test this in my car, we will try with your skirts on or your skirts off. I will take pics of both situations. I think we should do more studies like this in the future.

I noticed something about vinyl and rubber treatment from Griot's. I think it hardens the plastic and rubber. IS that my imagination? I was thinking if it does that that would make it bad for wear and tear as it would remove the squishiness of the material. I might be off based though.

 

Sweet! SO you just take it off before you get in the car?