Leather starting to deteriorate on driver side
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From: Kitchener Ontario. Canada
Unfortunately , most north American cars have the same crappy leather. I put seat covers on my Duramax in 06 when I bought it, because of the leather cracking on my 04. Same thing with my Platinum. I put Clazzio leather seat covers on when I bought the vehicle. A friend of mine has a 2011 Limited and the drivers seat is worn trough @ 50,000 kms.
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Originally Posted by M.YANCEY
You guys are 100% right it is a nightmare to get ford to replace seat covers, I have a 2012 with 1600 miles and only drive the truck on the weekends and my pass side seat has some marks in it and I told the dealer 1 day after I took it home. The service manger told me ford would not replace them. They told me they had to take pictures and send them to ford and it would take 10-12 weeks before they reviewed them. I am thinking about changing all the leather to katzkins..
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Originally Posted by RDFTS
According to the owners manual for the King Ranch, Ford recommends the King Ranch brand leather conditioner. So far I've gone through two bottles of that in 1yr. And on that spot, I've put it on thick. Granted I am not going to change how I get out of my seat as I do "slide" out and probably not going to lose weight any time soon either. But I've had leather in a Dodge and Toyota truck doing the same way and never had the leather do this. I thought when I paid premium dollar for this King Ranch, that the leather in them was top of the line and what makes this truck different. I beg to differ....
Oh, wait....
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unless you have the KR leather(uncoated), conditioning is completely useless......the other leather offered(more like vinyl) is a coated leather, so the conditioner wont even touch the leather..........i clean my leather/vinyl seats regularly with a 10:2 mixture of woolite and distilled water and they still look good after 15k...cheers
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