Car Interiors

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, Volksy said:

I noticed that the Leather on my Jaguar XJ, was pretty rapidly torn up on the drivers side bolster. Worked out it was the little rivet used on the back pocket of my Jeans!

One does not drive a Jaguar in jeans old boy. 

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[Volksy]

1 minute ago, Timewaster said:

One does not drive a Jaguar in jeans old boy. 

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My tweed was at the dry cleaners... 

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, Timewaster said:

I don't get leather seats. 

Burning hot / freezing cold, shiney, slidey, piss poor quality in all but the best marques. 

 

Yeah. Leather is bollocks. Old vinyl seats are period correct but also freezing/hotter than the surface of the sun/don't keep you in place. They smell nice though.

 

Cloth all the way for me, never had leather in anything. Somehow I acquired a 2.9 Cosworth Scorpio with cloth, doubt there were many of them made.

 

I also agree 100% with modern seats looking minging after a few years, I do tend to drink and eat snacks in my car but I'm careful - my dad has a zero tolerance policy to food and drink in his cars. People must have spilt stuff on old seats but it hid it better - lots more of them smoked too. The beige vinyl interior in my MK2 Escort estate was a delightful brown once I'd remove the furry seat covers and chucked out the household cushions and overflowing pub ashtrays. Headliner was beyond redemption.

 

As for kids being sick in the car - you are never getting rid of that, no matter how much you clean and Febreeze. Every now and again you will get a faint whiff or find a splash mark somewhere. Don't ask me how I know, please.

[Timewaster]

Oh, I know ?

 

I think the only way to get the smell out of my Galaxy would have been to burn it. 

[Peter C]

35 years and 134k miles old interior of my W123 Mercedes Benz. No problems to report.

 

[ETCHY]

17 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

If you could get proper 70s velour on a new car I'd gladly pay extra over leather trim. I'd happily tear out a mint condition leather interior if I could replace it with the sort of velour that came out of Germany in the late 70s.

Disagree about keeping it clean, in my experience it's a far easier material to keep looking good than the shit cloth you get in a new car. Most 10 year old cars with cloth seats you see for sale look like they've been owned by an incontinent tramp. This was only the third car I looked at on local Scumtree with an interior pic and it's not atypical of what a modern-ish cloth seated car looks like inside.
WTF do people do in cars nowadays to get them into this state? Is it purely down to the amount of Maccy D shite that gets chobbled and slurped in the car as the driver tries to text his M8s while  negotiating yet another speed hump?
 

It's the current obsession with drinking and eating in cars. Once upon a time cars didn't have cup holders now the fuckers are everywhere.

Drive -throughs have doubtless caused the demise of many a cloth interior.

Personally I'd rather park the car up and drag my fat arse inside and if i can't find my mouth drop food/spill drink on McDonald's  (or whatevers) seats !

[Volksy]

Having myself and my brother throw up in the back of my (now deceased due to this virus) Dads Alfa Guillieta .. Black, 1.8 > his dream car > that smell does not go away! It smelt or ever more.

[New POD]

As i said to my wife, no need for cup holders, its an automatic, I've got a spare hand, if i put my phone down. 

[Inspiral_Mondays]

1 hour ago, ETCHY said:

It's the current obsession with drinking and eating in cars. Once upon a time cars didn't have cup holders now the fuckers are everywhere.

Drive -throughs have doubtless caused the demise of many a cloth interior.

Personally I'd rather park the car up and drag my fat arse inside and if i can't find my mouth drop food/spill drink on McDonald's  (or whatevers) seats !

Indeed. Very common to pick up a rental car these days and find a layer of moldy sugary gloop at the bottom of the cupholders, particularly rental cars in the US. where people seem unable to make a 5 minute car journey without taking a half litre of sugary liquid with them. I remember reading a road test of the BMW E60 in a US car magazine back in the day, where it was marked down compared to the Japanese competition due to the foldout cupholders being an awkward shape. I had an E60 company car at the time and up to that point hadn‘t even realised it was fitted with cupholders.

[Macscrooge]

Not strictly an interior fitting, but the rubber footwell mats currently in our motorhome are from a 1979 Volvo 343. It’s at least the fourth vehicle they’ve been in. And my 2004 Saab 9-5 carpet mats are still going strong in my son’s Kia Ceed. 

[Shite Ron]