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Title: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: VWKD on October 07, 2010, 12:31:54 pm
Looking at this car (http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=170547875906) 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.
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: VWKD on October 07, 2010, 12:54:55 pm
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fvwkd.co.uk%2Fvwkdpics%2FScuffSeat.JPG&hash=9afa76e688613433d5363294689cf5812b2ef30d)
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: Gene Hunt 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:
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: Garth 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:
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: bacillus on October 07, 2010, 02:52:13 pm
Quote from: Garth on October 07, 2010, 01:01:21 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:
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: Garth on October 07, 2010, 02:53:48 pm
Quote from: bacillus on October 07, 2010, 02:52:13 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!
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: MPS on October 07, 2010, 02:56:11 pm
Can't believe that, penny-pinching b@st*rds are they not!?
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: 182_blue 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
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: VWKD 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
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: ub7rm on October 07, 2010, 07:42:31 pm
Quote from: Garth 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:

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.
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: rich83 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!
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: dmac1969 on October 07, 2010, 08:30:17 pm
Plenty worm on those monza 2s
Title: Re: Can the scuff on this leather seat be sorted ?
Post by: Rich 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