Leather seats wrinking with deep creases
 

Anyone have trouble with the leather seat in their new C6 wrinkling with deep creases when they were BRAND NEW?

The creases started on the way home from my dealer Kerbeck.

It's been a month now, and the seat looks horrible. My friends who see it - and are all dissapointed - as well as I am.

Kerbeck has been working on this with me - since I took the car home - back to New York a month ago - but still no replacement!

Here are the pics...

http://www.tenantengineer.com/c6 seat 1.jpg

http://www.tenantengineer.com/c6 seat 2.jpg

http://www.tenantengineer.com/c6 seat 3.jpg

same with mine, my dealer ordered new covers and they arrived all folded up and worse than what was in the car already, so i declined the replacement, mine's a 1LT :eek:

I put coverking seat covers over mine. I don't know what they look like underneath but I hope it minimizes the wrinkling and wear. Most any seats always get a nasty wear spot on the outside driver's bolster.

Post some pics so we can see how bad they really are. I've had my 2005 for 3 years (a daily driver) and I haven't noticed it being any worse than any other leather seated car I've owned as far as wear. But then I may have a higher threshold for "faults" than you...

Sounds like a job for..........

Gerardo!!!!! :flag:

Ouch! That seems odd.

This is two years old in October and I drive it almost every day.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...d/IMG_0287.jpg

The leather on the Vettes is about the cheapest out there, not high quality like on a MB, Jag, or 200K Ferrari! Mine seats looked the same way after about a month.

I have had no issues with the leather in either my 2005 MY Z51 Coupe or my present 2006 Z06. Both had black interiors. Are all of the ones which have the crease problem not black or what?

:rolleyes:

The leather that GM uses are cheap and they are thin and will wrinkle, haven't seen a vette with leather seats that didn't have some wrinkles.

Now if GM would use the same quality leather that BMW and Mercedes uses then there would be no wrinkles. But then again you would be adding another $10K to the price tag.

The Upholstery Shop next to my place is going to replace mine, he told me it would happen the day I bought the car, GM knows about the problem but does nothing to solve it, is just plain cheap leather, and the shifter and ebrake boots are even worst is imitation, :smash: he already replaced it for me, it feels better to the touch and looks nicer.

After one month my seat look good, Your right about the leather not the best. I do use Zaino leather care which seems to help

I've had my 08 since new years and no problem! It s black!

I just use leather conditioner on it every weekend and it minimizes the wrinkle/crease appearence. Im waiting to find me replacement seats, something more huggable and daily driveable. I miss my srt4 seats, 16k dollar car with 10x better seats then the vette, shame on gm.

I want the optional Recaros available on the new CTS-V.

Believe it or not there is worse. My 2006 Miata has the cheapest leather I have seen. It is fairly stiff and is pretty low quality. However, it is stiff enough not to wrinkle much. What do you expect from a $25k car?

I rented a Hertz LS3 the week of the 4th of July and while I wasn't looking for it, I didn't notice any wrinkling in the seats.

Actually BMW uses leatherette on the 3 series and the 525, 530, even the SUV's. The 545, 6 series and 7 series all have real leather. Interesting fact. I have a friend who works for a BMW dealer that is how I know.

Welcome to the wonderfull, NOT, Vette seats! Crappy leather, understuffed seat cushion, no support and they wrinkle like prunes in no time. I don't care what you say about "bang for the buck" etc, these are not the seats of a $50K plus car!

Yeap although leather is available as an option on the models with leatherette. I would prefer leatherette in the vette if they were well built seats. Crappy seats covered in leather are still crappy seats!

+1 leatherette always has a nice sheen to it and never shows any signs of wear... but it seems a lot of us 08 guys are posting, are previous years better?

If GM was to put better leather in the car then people would complain about having to pay an extra $5-10k. Personally, I've seen the SLK55 leather and wasn't too impressed for a car that cost $70k+. Just keep leather conditioner on them. At least you are not adding a quart of oil every 500-1000 miles like some Porsche owners.