Just ordered my new Superb yesterday. Have been told it will be aprox 11 weeks which is OK. To be honest I can't wait to pick it up, I am so excited!

I am trading in my 3 year old Fabia 3 Estate 1.9 TDI for a Superb Elegance Hatch 2.0 TDI CR 140.

As the Elegance comes with full leather seats and we have two children I am worried about damaging the leather seats with the child seats.

In my Fabia the seats material has not been damaged by the child seats, but they have left indents in the base seat padding.

Does anybody have any suggestions for how I can protect the leather seats? I have seen these on Amazon, are they any good?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunshine-Kids-Ultra-Seat-Protector/dp/B000EDJ1A8

Any help/advice is much appreciated.

Welcome to Briskoda

Can't help with the one in your link but I use a Mothercare Neatseat which is basically a pretty thick rubber protector, look on eBay mine was IIRC about £10 - £15 posted as as you would expect of rubber looks like new

After 12 months the leather still looks great - even with a heavy Recaro child seat living on it.

A pair on eBay

Single

One more

We have been using baby/child seats with ISOFIX bases, so pretty heavy bits of kit, and bought a very good seat protector from Next. It cost around £25 and it's made from padded heavy duty nylon, with cut outs for ISOFIX fittings and covers both the seat base and seat back all the way to the head restraint.

Just checked your pic in the link and that's the protector we've been using. Recommend you buy it. We'll be buying a second one for baby no.2

After 14 months use, not so much as a pimple on the leather beneath, so very happy with the investment. I can't find it on the Next website anymore, so most likely no longer available, but you may be able to find one on ebay or similar.

Edited 22 January, 201214 yr by The Muppeteer

Both my wifes Octavia and my Superb have full leather and found the gransonson's car seat was leaving slight dents inthe seats, found a seat protector from Toys R Us to go under the seat and has a strap to go round the headrest to keep it in place. Had it for about 4 months now and works very well

Edited 23 January, 201214 yr by kensym

hpoom, I have had exactly the seat protector you linked to in the back of my Elegance for the past 12 months. First with one of these:

My link

and for the last six months, one of these:

My link

Have to say the car seat looks like new. Would have no problems recommending it.

Andy

Thanks all for the feedback. I will order two of the ones I liked to tonight from Amazon.

I am now a lot happier that my leather seats will not be damaged by child seats.

I use a £2 picnic blanket because I can take it out and wash it. It does the job of protecting the base, I've never noticed any damage from the rear of the seats.

After reading the thread and seeing the link to Amazon, I ordered the seat protector as we need a second one for our next little bundle of joy. It's definitely the same protector as the one we already use (it arrived today), and at this price I think it is very good value.

Good padding over the entire seat and seat back, substantially wider then the car seat, so it fully covers the entire seat position, rubberised backing which means it doesn't slide about, a tongue on the reverse of the cover which feeds through between the seat back and base for added security, and a strap for top fastening around the head restraint. It even has a shaped contour at the mid point which fits neatly around any ISOFIX fitting without any need to trim it to fit. It seems to be pretty well made, so I expect to get years of use out of it.

After reading the thread and seeing the link to Amazon, I ordered the seat protector as we need a second one for our next little bundle of joy. It's definitely the same protector as the one we already use (it arrived today), and at this price I think it is very good value.

Good padding over the entire seat and seat back, substantially wider then the car seat, so it fully covers the entire seat position, rubberised backing which means it doesn't slide about, a tongue on the reverse of the cover which feeds through between the seat back and base for added security, and a strap for top fastening around the head restraint. It even has a shaped contour at the mid point which fits neatly around any ISOFIX fitting without any need to trim it to fit. It seems to be pretty well made, so I expect to get years of use out of it.

I bought 2 in the end from Amazon. They arrived yesterday. Just need to wait for my new car now :-( about 10 weeks till it is ready.

Now I need to order 2 more as well for my mum who has order a Yeti with leather seats.

I do like the write ups that have been given for the 'Amazon' seat protector, but I would like to ask if the rubberised backing causes any black marking on the leather (as I'm getting the Gobi Sand colour and that seems to be prone to marks from blue jeans etc)?