Leather Seat - *#^**

[Ironhorse]

Damn, I HATE leather seats in the newer vehicles now days!! The '05 Tahoe we bought 2 years ago just presented me with a split of about four inches along one of the creases in the leather material for the front DS seat bottom. My one true reason I hate leather seat material in cars. Give me cloth any day. Our '99 OBS 4x4 Tahoe had cloth seats, split cargo doors and 4x4 transfer lever on the floor. Wish some times we had kept it instead of trading up.

Anyone have a good recommendation for cloth covers that actually fit decent with out sagging and stretching? Seriously thinking of talking to the interior guy who did my '57 two door about having the two front seats covered in cloth. Did I mention I absolutely HATE leather interiors !!!

[hatzie]

17 or 18 years isn't terrible longevity for a driver side seat.
Your least expensive option would be a new leather cover for the butt cushion and a new butt cushion.
The Seat Shop leather is much better leather than the original with OEM fit using the same plastic clips and velcro that GM did.
https://www.theseatshop.com/collecti...+LT&foam=false

You can re-use the seat heater pad on a new foam but if the seat heater looks rough just replace it or leave it out.

If you really want cloth I'd look into getting a full set of seats out of a donor truck. The cloth covers are not all available from GM and the quality of aftermarket cloth is pretty dismal and it'll be the most expensive option for you.

[Ironhorse]

Granted 17/18 years use is pretty good but at the same time my old work car I bought in 2006 is a 1988 Chevy Caprice LS 4 door sedan. Has 225K on the clock, cloth velour seating, and has no tears or rips. Only wear showing is on the ribbing between the cloth panels on the seat cushion. That's 34 years of use since day one and looks really good for it's age. The leather always takes a "memory" crease to the pressure spot from the act of sitting on it. That weakens the strength of the leather material and the resultant cracks turn in to splits with more use. Look at a well used leather seat with 175 / 200k on the clock and many of the seats are in terrible condition relative to the age of the vehicle.

Not knocking the Tahoe, it has a 157K on it right now and runs good. Few minor problems but nothing serious. Rides good, clean and comfortable, just don't happen to care about GM's over use of leather interiors. I've learned to accept it along with all the electronics of vehicles now days. What ever happened to just good basic transportation I wonder?