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Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« on: October 07, 2010, 12:31:54 pm »
Looking at this car on efilth and it seems nicely specced but has a few annoyances.

Bodywork and wheels are no biggy but the seat is pretty badly worn (I'd say pretty excessively for 57k)

Just wondering if anyone knows if a trim place would be able to do anything with this or whether you'd have to get a new seat.. I dread to think what that would cost.

Opinions on the car very welcome to..

thanks in advance.
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2010, 12:54:55 pm »
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2010, 12:57:11 pm »
That does look pretty worn. Could be a replacment piece of leather ?. A good interiour trimmer should sort it. There is a bloke close to me in Harrogate who is great with car interiours. :happy2:
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 01:01:21 pm »
Mine was way worse than that when I bought the car  :happy2:

I bought a leather and vinyl repair kit off ebay and sorted it in about 30 mins. Now you'd never know there was a rip at all  :smiley:

Oh, and for reference.... that's not leather where you have the scuff, it's vinyl! Only the front faces of teh seat are leather  :happy2:

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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2010, 02:52:13 pm »


Oh, and for reference.... that's not leather where you have the scuff, it's vinyl! Only the front faces of teh seat are leather  :happy2:

I think VW call it leatherette...   :smiley:
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 02:53:48 pm »
I think VW call it leatherette...   :smiley:
They do indeed  :laugh: It's still vinyl though. Not quite as bad as calling it faux leather  :grin:

They should just call it what it is... FAKE leather, and be done with it!

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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2010, 02:56:11 pm »
Can't believe that, penny-pinching b@st*rds are they not!?

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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2010, 02:56:57 pm »
An expert should be able to spray a new finish onto it , or like above buy a kit and have a go yourself

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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2010, 03:26:00 pm »
Cheers for all the replies although I got out bid on this one :-( well worth knowing that something like that can be sorted in case others pop up with bad 'leather' scuffs .

thanks again
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2010, 07:42:31 pm »
Mine was way worse than that when I bought the car  :happy2:

I bought a leather and vinyl repair kit off ebay and sorted it in about 30 mins. Now you'd never know there was a rip at all  :smiley:

Oh, and for reference.... that's not leather where you have the scuff, it's vinyl! Only the front faces of teh seat are leather  :happy2:

Any links to this kit?  I have a bit of scuffing on the bolster in much the same place as on the car the OP posted but no where near as bad.
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2010, 07:46:09 pm »
I do have to smile when people advertise cars as "immaculate" and they  have horrific curbing to alloys and tatty interiors!

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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2010, 08:30:17 pm »
Plenty worm on those monza 2s
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Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2010, 08:55:30 pm »
Plastic immitation leather i call it...

Pretty much all cars with so called "leather" interior is just imitation leather

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