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- From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John)
- Subject: Leather over "mouse fur" cloth
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.084136.20639@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
- Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 08:41:36 GMT
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- Here is my ten yen to add about leather upholstery.
-
- I've had my Audi turbo for some time now, and it has full leather
- (not just on the seat surfaces) and I have had no complaints about
- it. In the Central Valley (Sacramento) it gets over 100 in the
- summer and 40 in the winter. No cracking or poor wear. Since the
- Audi has climate control, I have not gotten out of my car with
- sticky clothes due to the heat, or froze my tush in the winter.
-
- I prefer it to the "mouse fur" that you find in a lot of cars these
- days, less expensive Audis included. I find that most cloth cars
- make it hard to enter and exit, because the cloth acts like velcro,
- and in winter, you can get a nasty static shock, as you slide
- across the fabric, and touch the outside of your car. (ouch!
- dammit!)
-
- My only complaint with leather is the stuff that they use in some
- Japanese cars. In the Lexus (don't get me wrong, GREAT car) the
- leather has the consistancy of..... plastic. The smell is there,
- the look is there, but since it is treated to withstand Death
- Valley summers, when you touch it, it's like plastic. And one some
- cars, they only have leather on the seating surface, vinyl on the
- sides, like cheap lambskin covers (lambskin on the front, acrylic
- on the back and sides)
-
- As far as maintenance is concerned, I just clean it one in a while
- with a leather cleaner, and the leather stays in good condition.
-
- Well, there is cloth for those rabid animal rights fanatics. (Hey,
- a funny! Rabid animal rightists....)
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