I searched this topic here and came up "zip", so here goes:
The car I traded in on my '11 Golf TDI 2dr was an '04 R32 that had gigantic bolsters on both the seat cushion and the seat back. Right from new, I was very conscious of the wear potential on those leather seats and so immediately got into the habit of placing my hand on the exposed edge of the cushion bolster and lifting myself into the seat over the bolster. I did this for over six years, so when I got the TDI it was very easy to continue doing it. In fact, I didn't even have to think about it.
The reason I bring this up is that I now (and since about 4-5k miles) have very visible wear (lots of white thread ends hanging out) on the outer driver's seat cushion bolster. This is just ridiculous because I barely ever even brush that spot. I far prefer cloth to leather on my car seats, but what the hell? Before the R32, I had a '99 Passat (purchased new) with cloth seats. All I ever did to those seats was vacuum them and they still looked new the day I traded it in almost six years (and 70k miles) later on the R32.
I asked the service manager at my dealer about this and he told me that I wasn't the "Lone Ranger" on this problem and that they (the dealership) were waiting to hear from VW's reps on exactly what (if anything) was to be done about it. This was a while ago and I haven't heard anything from him on it, so I'll have to rattle his cage and see what's going on with this...
The car I traded in on my '11 Golf TDI 2dr was an '04 R32 that had gigantic bolsters on both the seat cushion and the seat back. Right from new, I was very conscious of the wear potential on those leather seats and so immediately got into the habit of placing my hand on the exposed edge of the cushion bolster and lifting myself into the seat over the bolster. I did this for over six years, so when I got the TDI it was very easy to continue doing it. In fact, I didn't even have to think about it.
The reason I bring this up is that I now (and since about 4-5k miles) have very visible wear (lots of white thread ends hanging out) on the outer driver's seat cushion bolster. This is just ridiculous because I barely ever even brush that spot. I far prefer cloth to leather on my car seats, but what the hell? Before the R32, I had a '99 Passat (purchased new) with cloth seats. All I ever did to those seats was vacuum them and they still looked new the day I traded it in almost six years (and 70k miles) later on the R32.
I asked the service manager at my dealer about this and he told me that I wasn't the "Lone Ranger" on this problem and that they (the dealership) were waiting to hear from VW's reps on exactly what (if anything) was to be done about it. This was a while ago and I haven't heard anything from him on it, so I'll have to rattle his cage and see what's going on with this...
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