Alacantara owners..................do your seats look like this?
06-05-2003, 11:00 AM
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Alacantara owners..................do your seats look like this?
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24930/p6050006.jpg">
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This is at 37k miles. For a car that is a little over 2 years old and costs $45k new, I find this unacceptable. What I find even more unacceptable is the dealership not touching it. To them it falls under the 12,000 mile wear and tear portion of the warranty.
So what are my options?
-try to shave off the little "pills", which will remove more and more of the alacantara material. (have tried this, but hardly works).
-recover the seats (both fronts have same prob) at my cost of over $2k.
What are you guys feelings on this? Should the seats be replace under warranty? What has your experience with it been?
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/24930/p6050008.jpg">
This is at 37k miles. For a car that is a little over 2 years old and costs $45k new, I find this unacceptable. What I find even more unacceptable is the dealership not touching it. To them it falls under the 12,000 mile wear and tear portion of the warranty.
So what are my options?
-try to shave off the little "pills", which will remove more and more of the alacantara material. (have tried this, but hardly works).
-recover the seats (both fronts have same prob) at my cost of over $2k.
What are you guys feelings on this? Should the seats be replace under warranty? What has your experience with it been?
06-05-2003, 11:15 AM
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nope, I tried "shaving" the seats a couple of times but...
that doesn't work that well. I know that there are many others out there whose seats look the same. It's kind of dissappointing that Audi would use a material on their seats that can't last more than 20-30k miles...or is that their way of saying you're supposed to trade it in at that time for a new one?
