We have already had dealers telling is 'we' maybe incorrectly putting on our seatbelts (and causing the belt to wear into the b pillar trim).

What next? We are not getting into our cars correctly? All leather will crease in this area it's a given fact, I parked my cheap skoda next to an expensive Audi a7 today of a similar age. It had a nosey and it's drivers seat is creased but the leather is not wearing away.

We can't all wear suit trousers just to drive a car or 'float' onto the drivers seat, ridiculous. What should have been done is for skoda to have used a thicker and heavier leather for these areas and rely less upon cheap (fake)leather.

This is not just a skoda problem, i know a bmw owner who has this on a 15 plate 1 series, and in a recent auto express there was an article of a Mercedes owner who had this and merc are refusing to pay.

Are the bolsters pu or leather? Pu is rubbish and they all go this way, only reason its there is weight saving.

Well, time will tell, our Scout with 'leather' bolsters has 6,000 miles on it, no sign of wear.

 

My Superb has 109,000 miles on it and is showing signs of slight wear.

 

The picture in the OP looks like something has caught the leather.

 

If you think this is a Skoda issue and is them cutting corners then you need to look further than the end of your nose, wear is a common point of discussion on other more premium manufacturers as already mentioned in this thread.

Well, time will tell, our Scout with 'leather' bolsters has 6,000 miles on it, no sign of wear.

My Superb has 109,000 miles on it and is showing signs of slight wear.

The picture in the OP looks like something has caught the leather.

If you think this is a Skoda issue and is them cutting corners then you need to look further than the end of your nose, wear is a common point of discussion on other more premium manufacturers as already mentioned in this thread.

But we are referring to the issue with Skoda and not premium brands. Granted it may be easier to accept seat to 'wear' on a cheap budget brand car rather than say a merc or lexus having maybe spent twice the cost of a skoda on one.

The OP has a valid argument.

Maybe your cars have a better grade of leather (or whatever its is) but your example is and example only and not the benchmark standard in how a seat should wear through.

As you may have guessed I'm not a skoda fanboy.

I'm not a Skoda fanboy either, my point was that if premium brands suffer wear, premature or not, then it shouldn't come as a surprise that Skoda seats receive similar criticism too.

 

The MkIII is a popular car now and the vRS (certainly on here) is the by far the most popular model, yet despite this there are only a handful of complaints about the quality of the leather.

 

My guess, and yes that is all it is (together with the wear on my own MkIII seats) is that the wear is more likely down to the external influences it is being exposed to, which for the reasons I stated earlier are hugely variable from one owner to the next. In the same way some people get 30,000 miles out of a set of tyres, others 20,000. Some get 40mpg, others 30mpg etc. etc.

 

I can't see why the leather on one model would differ to another, unless there has been a duff batch of seat material. Like I said I'm almost on 6,000 miles, only 2K behind you without an ounce of visible wear. Only time will tell.

Edited 6 November, 20169 yr by silver1011

that seat looks like it has seen some abuse so no wonder it has worn through, try not to squash the bolster as you haul yourself in, once you get into a routine it's easy. I try to avoid all contact with the bolster as I get in as this is the most common place to wear on any sport seat.

That doesn't look like wear and tear to me.

that seat looks like it has seen some abuse so no wonder it has worn through, try not to squash the bolster as you haul yourself in, once you get into a routine it's easy. I try to avoid all contact with the bolster as I get in as this is the most common place to wear on any sport seat.

Like you I tend to lift over the bolster as well.

It is really painful watching my elderly, and not so limber, in-laws swivelling on the seat and then wriggle/sliding over the bolster to get their feet over the relatively wide sill and onto the ground.

Exiting the car is very difficult for them and I worry a bit about how much stress they place on the seat  seams and material, but what can you do?

In fairness the cloth seats seem to be surviving it quite well and seem to be the same material that lasted so well for 6 years on my mk 2, although my wife says it is more scratchy on bare skin than the old car.

I have had to put an extra layer of carpet where my father-in-law generally sits to cope with his restless foot syndrome.

Getting old ain't for sissies!

I would say that driving style differs greatly from access and egress styles, there we will see such variation in mpg and also one cannot compare mpg between vrs and TDI, dsg etc.

You have a leather sofa? I do and even with small kids jumping on it and me wearing jeans it has not worn like as shown in the OP pictures or indeed in my own case.

I personally think they use to much fake leather which is not a good thing.

Edited 7 November, 20169 yr by octavianestate

Faux leather is made from a fabric base, which is chemically treated with wax, dye, or polyurethane for a color and texture. Ultimately, it is manmade and exists to give the look and feel of real leather at an exceptionally lower cost.

 

It is basically material covered with a thin plastic wrap. The cheaper the seats, the thinner the wrap, and the higher liklihood it will wear quickly.

it certainly doesn't feel like real leather in places! compared to my old 635csi BM the leather in that is nappa and exceptionally nice to sit in and "feel". I do like the vRS seats though and that's one of the reasons I bought one but you just have to be careful getting in and out. it sucks that Skoda are saying "wear and tear" though, not very clever!

If based in the UK, go to a clarks shoe shop, and buy some Black Shumagic - the stuff to cover scuffs on kids school shoes.

Mask off the stitching with a low tack tape (blue masking tape), and dab the shumagic onto the scuffed area with the base of a matchstick or similar implement. Leave for 5 mins, remove the excess, then buff with a microfibre cloth. The colour match is almost perfect (slightly grey/black), and will last a couple of months before reapplication is required. Much easier than haggling for a replacement seat cover.

Also, if you use the leather polish / treatment (official skoda one) every couple of months this significantly improves the durability of the leather, preventing it from drying out and improving the appearance of creases in the leather.

Very few car manufacturers have à leather option these days there nearly all pu, or part pu. This is a problem on all cars, they use pu not only for cost but weight saving to. Any car seat upholster will be able to fix this no problem at all weather PU or leather. Another issue with PU seats is with leather can be re conalised, plastic cant.

I have sean loads of people complain, my mate and his beemer for starters, also look at an article in auto express a few weeks ago.

Someone sell their full leather OEM mk3 seats for mine cash your way I don't think so though so rare still at the moment and the cars are such a higher price point than say mk1's

I have a question, is the "Leather" in the standard car with full Leather spec/230 the same "leather" as the bolster on the non-"leather" leather and Fabric seats ?

Maybe we should order one of these to stop us wearing our "leather" seats?

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