Got the leather seat covers in today from mustang parts on ebay. I must say I am less than impressed. The label on the seats say 60% leather. Does this mean its a mix of 60% leather 40% plastic as the composition of the material, or is it 60% of the seating area is "leather" and the 40% is cloth or something else?

I guess I was naive when I was expecting the covers to be like those on my 98 Mark VIII. Now that was leather...

Anywho, gonna work on the seats this weekend. So far I have done the steering wheel replacement/audio controls mod, Lariat cluster and installed some OEM stepping boards. The only question is, do you really pull up that hard on the head rests to get them out? I know that you push the little button on the bottom of the rest to raise them, but then, you just yank on em?

Thanks gang.

JC
El Paso TX

 

There are two buttons you have to press to get the HRs off...one is the one you push to raise the HR up and down and the other one is hidden on the side of the plastic thing the HRs slide down into. Look at it and you will see where you press it in...then just pull up and they come off.

 

More naive than you think... They are more/less exactly like your Mark VIII seat covers. 60% leather/40% vynil.

Ford has done this for many many years.. even the mark8. The sides/backs are all vynil, only the seating areas are leather.



Chris

 

Are you impressed with Ford's cloth seats?

 

This 60%/40% is what most of the upholstery industry does. This includes autos, home furnishings, boats, etc... If you researched most of the leather sofa makers only the part that your ****, back, and arms touch are covered in authentic leather.

If you would have check the offical Ford website it would have clued you in that the leather seats in the Lariat are "leather trimed" just like those in the new Harley Davidson edition, and the King Ranch. On the Nissan Titan they are called "Leather-appointed seats".

Besides what you received for $139.00 + labor is the exact setup that would cost serveral hundreds more from the factory.

Ox.

 

I don't think any OEM maker makes 100% leather seats. I know Cadillac, Mercedes don't. Why waste cow hide on backs of seats? or on the part that is hidden? The synthetic lasts longer doesn't stretch as much.
Nowadays they do such a good job with the synthetic that you can't really tell the difference anyway.
Chris

 

I agree... I mean, what is the advantage of having leather - cleaner, feels better, looks better? The same can be accomplished with synthetics - except synthetics last longer, stretch less, require less maintanence, have a higher level of stain resistance, and are comparatively inexpensive.

At any rate, I can understand that there might be disappointment in the quality of the seat covers, but for the price the OP likely paid, he really did get a good value, and he also got rid of those God aweful cloth seats that stain when you look at them.

 

Yeah, that I agree with. Its nice that I saved myself a grand or so...Still, its nice to have them instead of the cloth....

On the mark though, they dont feel like vinyl at all...They are great...

 

Ferrari, Bentley and Rolls do... But then again, I dont have a 300K car on my driveway

:-P