Are leather seats worth the extra effort. Is the leather in the Octavia III of good quality

Worth it for the smell I always think.

Yeah but you need heated ones.

And in my opinion one of the best things about my leather seats is the perforated leather for the Air Cooling blowers...

Thought it was a bit of a gimmick at first but with leather after doing a 14 Hr shift it is amazing 

Pros and cons for both to be fair.

 

I had (heated) alcantara on my last Superb but now have (heated) leather on the S3.

 

Yeah but you need heated ones.

 

Deffo.

love mine, makes the car that bit more special

There's no worse feeling than touching cloth.

And the Services are 40 miles away.

And you're stuck in a massive traffic jam.

I wasn't a Leather lover at all until I got my Lexus which has Leather everywhere inside. Very nice and heated too [emoji4]

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Yeah but you need heated ones.

 

Thats my take on it. 

 

They're nice to have, but need heated ones, and they're sticky in summer. 

Heated and cooled is best - The A/C in the seats of my last 2 cars here was a godsend with the car sat in 30-35C sunshine all day

Heated and cooled is best - The A/C in the seats of my last 2 cars here was a godsend with the car sat in 30-35C sunshine all day

 

Never had cooled, but that sounds ideal! 

Depends on what you are going to do with the car; leather is more to look after and gets damaged by child seats and sharp studs on clothes and nothing is more irritating than a big scratch across a new seat!

Also as others have said, heated and/or cooled?

If the car is going to have an easy life and you spec heated, great. If you pile on miles full of kids and stuff and no heat/cooling, I'd take cloth as it will last longer.

Not sure about Skoda leather longevity, but the older B5 VWs Passats ca have perfect leather at moon miles, except scuffing on driver's bolster....

Ask a taxi driver...

Leather makes an interior clean quick and easy, makes the car feel (and smell!) more special and helps to resell, but you won't get your money back on the option price! Depends on the car and leather quality; some cheap plastic coated dry leathers are worse than the standard cloth and yet you pay loads more to have them.

Only downside are the bolsters getting scratched getting in and out if you aren't careful.

Really like leather now that I have it, definitely heated as well

Modern leather on anything less than luxury brands is not worth having.  It's too hot in summer and too cold in winter.  Plus, a lot of what looks like leather isn't - I think the smell is added chemically.

Modern leather on anything less than luxury brands is not worth having. It's too hot in summer and too cold in winter. Plus, a lot of what looks like leather isn't - I think the smell is added chemically.

Pleather.

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Modern leather on anything less than luxury brands is not worth having.  It's too hot in summer and too cold in winter.  Plus, a lot of what looks like leather isn't - I think the smell is added chemically.

Yea, and the likes of Vauxhall, and believe it or not, Volvo Merc and BMW give it fancy names like Vinotech or some such nonsense. Worse quality than what they fitted into many cars in the 60's even, and after 3 years (usually) it goes brittle and starts cracking up and disintegrating. 

Vile stuff

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Good thing with leather and having children-- they wipe down easy, spilled drinks, sticky sweets, a bit of puke, leaking nappies all easily dealt with.    Treat them with leather conditioner every month or so and they stay nice and clean and smell sweet.  You have to have heated ones for the winter, loverly!

My departed A3 TDI was 10years old and the new owner commented on how well the Audi leather stood up to 10years and 110000 miles of use.  So I would say VAG leather is good quality all round.

Not sure on Skoda leather, but cloth always for me. (I went in an Octavia 2 taxi the other day, and that leather looked awful - all saggy and worn.)

 

Cloth isn't as cold in winter, nor as hot in summer, and less slippery in corners. Wears better, usually. And cheaper too

_Alcantara.

_{Best of both worlds?}

 

_{Have had cloth seats in my last 2 Yeti's.}

_{Not a real fan of all leather. As above, too hot in summer and cold in winter.}

 

_{I'm hoping my choice of alcantara, for the new car, will be the right one ?}

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_{Not a real fan of all leather. As above, too hot in summer and cold in winter.}

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I've found aircon solves the first problem, and heated seats the second.

_Alcantara.

_{Best of both worlds?}

 

_{Have had cloth seats in my last 2 Yeti's.}

_{Not a real fan of all leather. As above, too hot in summer and cold in winter.}

 

_{I'm hoping my choice of alcantara, for the new car, will be the right one ?}

 

Can go a bit fluffy though.

 

I've got fabric centers with alcantara bolsters in my 330d (after removing/selling the leather seats it came with) and while they're miles ahead of the leather seats for comfort/everything, the bolsters can get a bit bobbly at times. Otherwise, it's a very nice material.

    Leather looks nice and is associated with the quality of years ago  ,when  even in middle range cars leather was the norm and genuine thick leather at that, but today's leather is of very poor quality. In my previous L & K Octavia, it was so thin to be almost like paper. It got split in one place and it was dreadfully thin, not what I would call genuine leather .And it easily gets damaged ( dented ) when rear seats folded down for any length of time, Things ain't what they used to be. It could well be cloth lasts longer than present day leather ones. In a V W Passat Estate they survived well.

Not sure on Skoda leather, but cloth always for me. (I went in an Octavia 2 taxi the other day, and that leather looked awful - all saggy and worn.)

 

Cloth isn't as cold in winter, nor as hot in summer, and less slippery in corners. Wears better, usually. And cheaper too

More than likely not leather in the Taxi you were in 

The Taxi Centre were supplying these with "leatherettish" fitted seat cover that looked like factory fit but are just well fiited covers and they do like terrible after a while..

I've found aircon solves the first problem, and heated seats the second.

Heated seats helps when its cold

But aircon doesnt sort the stickyness of hot leather imo.

Alcantera is nice. Had it in a Golf was very nice and the best of both worlds. They were heated too.