dgrr
Member Since: 04 Apr 2006
Location: York
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Whilst sitting in a 3rd-row seat & clearly bored during a long journey, my 6-yr-old daughter decided to lean forward & bite a small chunk out of the top corner of a middle-row seat. Having reached our destination, and then managing to stop myself from biting a small chunk out of her in return, I have come up against nothing but brick walls as to how to fix this. The hole is not in the leather, but in the top of the PVC strip that runs down the side of each rear seat (i.e. between the front facia of leather & back facia of carpet). The hole is about 5mm square in size. The white stuffing is clearly visible underneath - if left, it will not be long before little fingers find their way into this, exacerbating the problem. I believe it could easily be covered with a tiny (say 1.5cm square) patch of the same pvc stuff glued firmly in place. On a 3 month old car, this sounds awful, but, with all 3 seats in the normal/upright position, it would hardly be visible. The alternative (as was oh-so-helpfully provided by my LR dealer) is to either replace the whole seat (ridiculous!) or have it completely re-trimmed (only slightly less ridiculous!). My questions are:
1. Has anyone else had experience of their pvc being damaged or ripping.... so to speak.
2. Does anyone know who manufactures the dark grey pvc side-strips that are used on factory-fitted black leather seats?
3. Are the seats assembled by somebody else for LR? If so, anyone know their number?
Help!!! DGRR
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 5th Sep 2006 3:16 pm |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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I'd speak to Exmoor, they will probably give some advice as they sell retrims! They advertise in LROI magazine every month. DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
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| 5th Sep 2006 3:44 pm |
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
Posts: 16534
 
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Is there any 'unseen' material under one of the seat hard plastic trimcaps that can be used and then covered with something similar to prevent it splitting?
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| 5th Sep 2006 3:47 pm |
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dgrr
Member Since: 04 Apr 2006
Location: York
Posts: 212
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Thanks for your help...
Pelyma's suggestion of calling Exmoor was the way forward - FYI, they couldn't have been more helpful: they've told me exactly what to do, are sending me a spare swatch of the correct matching vinyl and all... for FREE. It's nice to stumble accross a supplier who can define (let alone spell) "customer service". So a BIG thumbs-up to Exmoor. DGRR
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| 6th Sep 2006 9:27 am |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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Great news and well done Exmoor! DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 6th Sep 2006 9:28 am |
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dflo
Member Since: 04 Jul 2006
Location: Wading in and out of it...
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Good to hear about things like this... Proves that there are still some "nice" companies out there... 
 Exmoor  "Funny, mine doesn't do that......."
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| 6th Sep 2006 10:37 am |
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