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After huge dithering, I am likely to be pressing the button on one of these in a few months. Will be the diesel 4x4 estate. It comes standard with the cloth seats, and for an extra 1K I can add heated leather. Now my current and last cars have had heated leather, which with young teenage boys, muddy football kit, muddy feet, bikes etc has been a godsend - a wipe down and it's good as new.
So the question is, how hard wearing is the Skoda cloth ? Car will be on a 42 month PCP and I realise I may get a bit of a return charge for wear and tear to the cloth upholstery, which could partly offset the additional monthly cost of the leather option....
Have you chosen the colour yet or can we expect another post about that 🙂
Leather every time.
The cloth isn't too bad in the VAG cars, I've seen some horrendous ones from people who have used and abused the car without too many problems.
I personally would go for leather though as it's a lot easier than cloth to clean and heated seats on a cold morning are nice.
I've had my car for nearly a year and it seems to be wearing reasonably well despite having bikes etc chucked in it. However, I tend to keep my cars pretty clean and change after a ride etc.
My monthly budget (company car) didn't stretch to the leather or I'd have had it because it is easier to clean.
A chap I work with had an Octavia and did 83k in a little under 3 years and his interior wore pretty well.
cheers all. Gary, it's ok, my kids chose the colour 🙂
Phew 🙂
You should see the inside of my golf then marvel at how good the material looks when hoovered*
*which isn't often.
I hate leather car seats.
Ive got the cloth in mine and to be honest its pretty good.
The only thing that will concern me in the long run is the drivers side seat bolster as you get in and out of the car. Mine already shows some signs of creasing.
FWIW Ive spoke to a few owners who have leather and they tend to say its not as good quality as other brands leather.
Oh and Quartz metallic grey or Race Blue for the colour !!
I thought the bolsters were prone to excessive wear on these (or was that the last model?)
Briskoda is the best place to ask about such things.
I've got a four year old 80,000 mile Fabia and a three year old 25,000 mile Fabia. I keep bikes in them occasionally, have carried wood in them, guinea pig hutches etc. and all that shows on the seats is a small rip (4mm) from when the younger car got written off 18 months ago by the previous owner.
The bolsters are fine, I think they only suffer if you're fat.
Because the seats are quite sporty and like a bucket seat your leg rubs over the bolster as you get in and out.
If you look at a few used cars on auto trader you can see what I mean !
Oh and Quartz metallic grey or Race Blue for the colour !!
Agree on Quartz, not so much Race Blue now that it's available on all models.
Briskoda is the best place to ask about such things.
well that was a useful 15 minutes browsing, cheers - think it will be the heated leather version !
last 2 cars have been grey so fancy a change. Like the blue but outvoted by the kids who want moon white metallic 🙂Oh and Quartz metallic grey or Race Blue for the colour !!
We have a mk2 with split leather on 109k. Leather shows wear on driver side where driver has slid over the 'lip' to get into the bucket, but cloth on the seat back looks fine, despite being almost white.
Previous mk1 was pretty good too, despite being almost all white inside.
The Mk1, if the new owner hasn't changed his habits, will be filthy.....
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The Mk1, if the new owner hasn't changed his habits, will be filthy.....
I believe the Mk1 has gone to the great scrap heap in the sky. Shame - cracking motor. 😥
Shame - cracking motor.
My MK1 went in January 🙁 It was a reliable workhorse.
We spec'd ours with the leather simply on the basis that the cloth seats have garish vRS inlays in green. The leather was a nice subtle black stiching.
That was a mk2 mind; don't know what the current ones are like.
Cloth ones currently red or grey stitching, both look very smart, but not sure how they will look after 70k miles of kids, football kit, bikes, food, family life etc. Think leather makes more sense and as per my OP, have it in current and previous cars.
Leather/cloth/whatever the heated seats in the mkiii are really very good indeed. Which means you need leather!
Over the last couple of weeks I've been in a lot of different cars of a variety of different makes and models, most ex Motability, and many have stains on cloth seats, whereas those that have had leather have had none, despite being pretty grubby everywhere else. Although the Astra I had this morning had a neat collection of nail trimmings collected in the joint where the adjustable seat front goes in and out, the leather seats were otherwise creased but unmarked, the rest of the car was pretty filthy, but it was a XX13 XXX plate with 42k on it.
Don't know about the new seats, but the cloth ones in my 15 year old Octavia 4x4 are really tidy still, 180k, previously an ambulance car and now transporter of mud and sand. Interior is looking better than the exterior.
oh well, the 184 diesel 4x4 Octavia VRS is on a run out for the new model and today is last day to order them as factory builds, as mine would be, with leather etc.....a good 3 months too early for me...
Will hang off till end of October and see what the deal is on 2017 ones then, and either order one....or a Superb Estate 4x4.... or an A6 Avant quattro.... 🙂