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When did the seats change from This to That?
Hey all
Curious to know if anyone can tell me when Land Rover changed the seats in the D3 from the perforated style to the non-perforated? I think it it was 2008 onwards but would be good to know.
I've attached two example photos.. both are from HSE models.
Perforated (Possibly Pre 2008)
Non-Perforated (Post 2008?)
24th Aug 2023 1:32 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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I think it’s a premium leather (pack?), so an extra…?
24th Aug 2023 4:07 pm
Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
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Re: When did the seats change from This to That?
kajtzu wrote:
I think it’s a premium leather
That's what I was told on this very forum.
I believe they were fitted concurrently for a while, and the highest spec vehicles stopped being automatically fitted with it at some point. But it was then an option.
Happy to be told otherwise if anyone knows for sure.
When I was looking at D4s I was moaning about the fact that the quality of the leather in my Perforated leather equipped D3 HSE appeared to feel and look far nicer than the non-perforated leather in any of the D4 HSEs I'd looked at.
It was pointed out that at the time my D3 HSE was made they came with the premium leather pack.
I have to say, I still think the look and feel of my 55 plate D3 seats was nicer than my current 65 plate D4 HSE Lux, which apparently has the later non-perforated premium leather.
The D4 seat leather feels baggy and less well fitted to me compared to the D3Heaven doesn't want me, and hell is afraid I'll take over.
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24th Aug 2023 7:00 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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I had the “normal” leather on my D4. The one that has two seams (or a stripe however you want to think of it) in the middle. Only later did I realize that there was a premium leather seat variant also for the D4.
I have the perforated leather in alpaca color on the D3 and like it very much.
24th Aug 2023 7:17 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6575
Re: When did the seats change from This to That?
Nasher wrote:
kajtzu wrote:
I think it’s a premium leather
That's what I was told on this very forum.
So I believe they were fitted concurrently for a while, and the highest spec vehicles stopped being automatically fitted with it at some point. But it was then an option.
Happy to be told otherwise if anyone knows for sure.
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I had the perforated leather on my late 2009 D3 SE
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14th Sep 2023 8:51 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
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Would love to have black D3 perforated leather seats in my MY14 D4, complete with the headrest 'horns' [if that's what you'd call them].I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
14th Sep 2023 12:15 pm
kajtzu
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Location: Helsinki
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Handles?
14th Sep 2023 12:35 pm
disco chris
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Handles?
14th Sep 2023 12:38 pm
disco chris
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Why did they get rid of the handles on the headrests??
14th Sep 2023 12:39 pm
Nasher
Member Since: 07 Mar 2009
Location: Clanfield, North of Pompey - UK
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Because if you looked at the D3 from behind it looked like it was being driven by two Cybermen.Heaven doesn't want me, and hell is afraid I'll take over.
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