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Looks very nice. Great price for the amount of work done too!
Comment: I may be in a minority, but I quite like the look of the cloth interior. I hate the fascination/fad that people have with leather interiors - it seems you can't sell anything other than a base-model BMW without leather. People tend to prefer sports stylee seats too, then at 80k it looks as tatty as hell. Our Golf GTi and Panda have lovely sports style cloth interiors and I don't feel short-changed at all.
Also, we spend time in hot climates (home in Muscat, Oman) and out there nobody with a brain has leather due to the pain it would inflict! I have developed a small affection to that 1080s Datsun/Toyota style velour
Comment: I may be in a minority, but I quite like the look of the cloth interior. I hate the fascination/fad that people have with leather interiors - it seems you can't sell anything other than a base-model BMW without leather. People tend to prefer sports stylee seats too, then at 80k it looks as tatty as hell. Our Golf GTi and Panda have lovely sports style cloth interiors and I don't feel short-changed at all.
Also, we spend time in hot climates (home in Muscat, Oman) and out there nobody with a brain has leather due to the pain it would inflict! I have developed a small affection to that 1080s Datsun/Toyota style velour
Liverpool
Tref said:
I prefer non-leather too.
My Polo G40 had cloth sports seats, as did my Corrado VR6 (after swapping the leather ones for cloth with a G60 owner), and my first e34 M5 (half-cloth/half amaretta).
The half-cloth/amaretta on the M5 had 170,000 miles on it when I sold it and it looked as good as it did when I bought it at 80,000 miles.
While I agree that in many ways that fabric is better it can be the kiss of death when trying to then sell or trade in. In the instance of some cars they are almost unsaleable without leather (and auto, Sat Nav, etc.)
Try selling an X5 withn out leather, nav, auto
PeteCowell said:
Actually that was the model I based my response upon
That's my daily drive and as you say without those 3 it's price is several £k lowermmm-five said:
Agree that cloth does stand the test of time better (not in the case of my cloth bolster though.... :x ) But with certain cars you expect certain things, the Zed being a soft top, i expected leather - or at least half leather and big wheels (bigger than the stock 16's i got anyway) - Or is that just me :|
If they just gave you a choice, on the higher-end models, to downgrade, swap, etc. then it would be fine, but it's leather (in various colours) or nothing.
Surely offering carbon-weave leather or carbon-weave alcantara wouldn't have been too difficult.
BTW, I'll probably go down the route that Sixspeed has taken and get a pair of Recaro Pole Position seats retrimmed to my spec (champagne in my case). That way I can keep the original seats safe somewhere for whenever I come to sell it.
Surely offering carbon-weave leather or carbon-weave alcantara wouldn't have been too difficult.
BTW, I'll probably go down the route that Sixspeed has taken and get a pair of Recaro Pole Position seats retrimmed to my spec (champagne in my case). That way I can keep the original seats safe somewhere for whenever I come to sell it.
Mik said:
you better hope she doesn't come on here.