I only brought my car at the end of FEB 2013, Its a 12 plate VRS and came with 5000 miles on it. It now has 8000 miles and when cleaning the car the other day I noticed this

Now I am aware that it may seem petty but I have every intention of keeping this car for at least 5 years and I make an effort to keep it looking good but I am unhappy that the seat is looking worn already. I'm not sure how clear it shows it in the pictures but it shows up in real life.

While I was in at the Skoda garage today getting the airbag light turned off I asked whether it would be a warranty cover for this. I was informed that they had a policy to follow and they would have to examine the policy to see if mine met the criteria but that he was not hopeful as it was localized as oppose to being the whole seat base. Am I being picky?

It is certainly worth a shot. With only 5k miles on I wouldn't expect wear to be showing yet. My 57 plate Cee'd has 66k on it with no wear to the seats that I can see..

do you keep a big fat wallet in you back pocket!

Really has to be the biggest downfall on what for me is a fantastic car otherwise. The nature of the seats make-up it's going to wear in that way as you get in and out and twist the fabric,then if you've a back pocket or rivet jeans, it's all going to add to the destruction of the seat base. Mines in a worse state than that but it is 6 years old and had 113,000 miles of wear.

Looks like a wallet in the back pocket or velcro fastening catching from say work trousers?

II had similar on a prev car caused by velcro pocket on work trousers.

I do/ have neither- I find it deeply uncomfortable to have a wallet in my back pocket and don't own trousers with velcro!

It does look as though something has been rubbing the seat?

Studs from your jeans? Or a zip?

Maybe most of it was done in the first 5,000 miles and the extra wear in the last 3,000 miles has been enough to expose the wear?

Mine has the creases too, noticed after just 700 miles

told the dealer, not hopeful that Skoda UK will accept warranty claim

I will wait and see but I am not going to hold my breath. If it was jeans then they would have studs on both sides?

I will wait and see but I am not going to hold my breath. If it was jeans then they would have studs on both sides?

An osteopath I saw who said when I sat I was placing more weight on one side than the other said it was quite common?

More but not all, surely! There is no wear on the other side.

Could be that when your gettin in your putting that side down first and its sliding alon slightly while your "squaring up" youer postion and thats causing that side to wear more than the other side? Dunno if iv explained it well there but it sounds fine in my head

Apologise for the poor english/grammer im typing using my phone

Maybe- I will investigate

Definitely worth trying to claim (what have you got to lose?) but the warranty only covers manufacturing defects so it will come down to whether they believe there was a fault with the seat or if it was down to "abuse". Good luck

Chris

Must be something. My car is nearly 6yr old with 70k on the clock and I don't have any wear like that on the seat.

I think you'll be lucky to get it replaced unless you can prove a defect in the material somehow.

I had the same problem on my VRS, though on the seat back, near the base. I suspect mine was actually caused by my wallet rubbing.

I got the seat cover replaced under warranty no problem (car had done 20k+ miles at that point), so well worth pursuing.

Like I said I'm not going to hold my breath but going to try as it does not seem like fair wear and tear given the cars not even a year old yet and only 8k!!

Most VW group cars suffer from this. My mate backed his R8 for stuff like this. The seat went like that twice and it had god knows how many rattles and squeaks. Appauling for £110,000 car. Keep taking it back and keep asking for it to be fixed. That sort of damage in such a short space of time cannot be deemed as fair wear and tear.

Is it worth trying different dealers with the same problem ?

Wouldn't there be a record if they ask skoda? So once a no, it'd be the same everywhere.

But it shouldn't keep happening. It shows an inferior product. You would never knowingly buy something if you thought that it would keep looking bad after such a short period of time. Put simply, its just not good enough.

The car is with the dealers today and I should get an answer by Thursday!

Meanwhile I have 1.2 Fabia to play in- courtesy cars/ hire cars are def more fun than your own!