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Offline wigit

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seat bolster wear
« on: January 16, 2009, 06:07:35 pm »
took the GTI to the dealers today so their warranty manager good look at the front seats and send some happy snaps to VW, 4 months and 4,500 miles in the leather isn't looking to good, i was expecting the alcantara to wear

in fairness dealer has been great and we had a look at the bolsters on an Edition 30 with 10k on the clock, curious whether any of you guys have had any problems




on the plus side got to give the GTI a good run for once and enjoyed playing with it on some quiet roads  :innocent:
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2009, 06:10:22 pm »
I was looking at a 07 ED30 at the dealers on Thursday and the bolster was in the same shape as yours. I have had two seat backs relplaced due to wear.
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2009, 06:19:27 pm »
The drivers bolster on my ED30 has exactly the same type of wear after 6K, my old A3 had the same wear but it never got any worse tbh even after 40K
Pretty poor though imo..
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2009, 06:36:35 pm »
same happened on my cloth ones, the crease appears very quickly, but never gets any worse, tbh, its hard to see how this can be avoided
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2009, 06:46:19 pm »
Mine are starting to show a bit of wear. But it depends on how big you rear is
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2009, 06:48:54 pm »
they all are a bit like this, it can be helped by conditioning them and some even say heating them with a hair dryer (being careful) can help, let us know how you get on
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2009, 07:06:32 pm »
cheers guys, my benchamrk was my a3 which looked better after 53k, all be it they are not as heavily bolstered, those pictures were taken without flash as well



madman you have just put me off my dinner and you'd be brave to say that in our house  :fighting:
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2009, 07:09:19 pm »
The problem is obvious, Pirelli's are known for side wall wear.  :laugh:
My advice would be replace with PS 2  :signIWS:
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2009, 07:11:33 pm »
its ok saying they are all like that but I don't think its acceptable on a 20K+ car
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2009, 07:19:08 pm »
Quote from: gazbutmk5gti on January 16, 2009, 07:11:33 pm
its ok saying they are all like that but I don't think its acceptable on a 20K+ car

my point indeed scirocco same mileage and no wear what so ever
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2009, 07:19:27 pm »
i dont think anyone said it was acceptable
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2009, 07:22:55 pm »
although nobody said it was acceptable, they seemed resigned to it :smiley:
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2009, 07:24:32 pm »
I have a similar issue after 10 months and only 5k  :mad:



After seeing SteveP's today with 20k+ Im not happy and will be persuing a warranty claim the next time Im at the stealers! The leather has been cleaned and fed on several occasion and even had the 'hair dryer' treatment  :mad:
« Last Edit: January 16, 2009, 07:42:41 pm by Greenouse »
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2009, 07:25:29 pm »
Quote from: gazbutmk5gti on January 16, 2009, 07:22:55 pm
although nobody said it was acceptable, they seemed resigned to it :smiley:

probably because they know VW will do feck all about it
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Re: seat bolster wear
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2009, 07:37:01 pm »
Quote from: 182_blue on January 16, 2009, 07:25:29 pm
Quote from: gazbutmk5gti on January 16, 2009, 07:22:55 pm
although nobody said it was acceptable, they seemed resigned to it :smiley:

probably because they know VW will do feck all about it
Unfortunately thats the view i take, they were completely uninterested when i had the same problem on my '55' plate GTI, as were Audi with the A3, i'm not worried about it tbh as i've seen how bad they can look after having had new covers fitted...
Besides, i'm having too much fun with the car to worry about it lol  :laugh:
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