Leather seat question
Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: Dec 1999
Posts: 425
Likes: 1
From: South Elgin, IL, USA
Leather seat question
Do leather seats have leather on all exterior surfaces (ie. sides, back and seating surfaces (where your body rests)) or is it leather only on seating surfaces?
Thanks! Greg :seeya
Thanks! Greg :seeya
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 174
Likes: 3
From: Ann Arbor MI
Re: Leather seat question (76greg)
Greg,
The original seat covers in a '76 are leather/vinyl, and the standard replacement is exactly like the original. The leather includes the seating part (top and bottom) and half of the strip along the sides. The rest is vinyl, but that's a small area because most of the back surface is taken up by the rigid seatback.
I recently replaced mine with the leather/vinyl and its hard to tell the difference between the leather and the vinyl. The vinyl part stretches so it may be a little easier than all-leather to install.
Brian
The original seat covers in a '76 are leather/vinyl, and the standard replacement is exactly like the original. The leather includes the seating part (top and bottom) and half of the strip along the sides. The rest is vinyl, but that's a small area because most of the back surface is taken up by the rigid seatback.
I recently replaced mine with the leather/vinyl and its hard to tell the difference between the leather and the vinyl. The vinyl part stretches so it may be a little easier than all-leather to install.
Brian
Advanced
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 67
Likes: 0
From: Clawson Michigan
Re: Leather seat question (76greg)
Most "leather" seats are leather only on the seating surfaces. The backs, sidepanels, etc. are different grades of vinyl. Some of the more expensive vehicles used leather for the entire seat at one time, but have selectively replaced leather with the vinyl to reduce costs - leather has gotten pretty expensive.
Brian :seeya
Brian :seeya
