Cloth vs. Leather Seats for Cars
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Anonymous
| I need to buy a new car, the base model has everything I need and don't want to spend the extra $$ for leather seats. However, I have young children and a dog. Is there a way to get seat covers professionally installed in a car with cloth? Ideally, I would like covers that I can remove and wash. |
Anonymous
| Go leather 100%. You will have the car for a lot longer than you plan to and leather holds up better. Washing car seat covers is a pain in the rear. |
Anonymous
| Leather is way better for kids and pets. |
Anonymous
| If they have them for your car, Clazzio seat covers are incredible. Faux leather, and they’re so tight it’s a nightmare to install them. But once they’re on, you have incredibly easy to care for, great looking faux leather, no problems with it getting hot or anything, indefinitely. When I finally sold the car I took them off and the upholstery looked brand new. They’re phenomenal. |
Anonymous
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Just go with the "leather"/pleather option. It is worth extra cost, which will be amortized into your interest rate loan anyhow. With kids and a dog, you will never get those stains, nor the odor out. And it kills your resale value.
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Anonymous
Ps they cost a lot, but less than upgrading the car in my case. My phone in my back pocket ripped up the drivers seat eventually so I was even more glad it was just the cover. |
Anonymous
You...put your $1,000 phone in your back pocket and then sit on your phone, risking destruction of your pants, your phone, and your seat cover?  And this isn't a one-time mistake but a regular way of sitting? Cars these days have places to rest your phone.
Oh, and to OP, I vote leather. In addition to being easier to clean, the leather option in most cars also correlates with a higher-quality seat that is more comfortable on long drives. So the upcharge you're paying isn't usually just for the leather; it's for the leather and the higher quality cushioning materials and shape of the seat. Note that many brands now offer synthetic/imitation leather instead of cloth. For instance, many Lexus vehicles offer NuLuxe seats and Toyota vehicles offer SofTex seats. Real leather seats are only on the top-tier trims of these brands' vehicles. These newer seat fabrics are easy to clean like real leather and are much more comfortable and attractive than the "pleather" of the 80s and 90s. |
Anonymous
| I really don't like the way old cloth smells in cars. I'd only ever buy leather. I had pleather in my last car and it was AWESOME! It cleaned easier than leather, never cracked and just was a great material. |
Anonymous
| If you don’t have a garage and live in the dmv go with cloth. It’s too damn hot for leather. |
Anonymous
| I could never for the life of me understand the attraction of leather seats in a car. Hot is summer, freezing in winter - what’s the point? Unless the ones with heater/cooler option? |
Anonymous
You're describing the vinyl seats of many of our childhoods. Leather doesn't typically get crazy hot or cold. |
Anonymous
| Mercedes uses MB Tex unless you opt for real leather. It llooks like leather but withstands a lot of kid and pet abuse. |
Anonymous
| If you're old and/or disabled it's easier to slide into and out of a seat if it is leather compared to cloth, which "grabs" clothing." I'd prefer faux leather as real leather is cruel. |