2006 Owners with Leather

Your pictures scared me - could I have overlooked such a difference? I just ran out to the parking lot and looked in my car - PHEW! Mine line up perfectly. Somethings wrong with the way they did yours. Sorry!

(Classic Silver '06 package 8 with grey leather interior)

 

Fortunately my leather doesn't look like that. I took some pictures which didn't come out so great, but I'll post them so you can have an idea. This is the armrest, right?

 

My factory-installed leather is fine. My understanding from other messages is there is a difference between the port-installed leather that is done by the SE region and the Package #8 factory installed leather.

 

Relax and Enjoy Your Prius

If you have to look that close to find an imperfection, you'll never enjoy any car!

jsf - The SE Region does not include leather armrests with Port Installed leather seats; you don't get the leather steering wheel either. You pay more for SE Region after-market leather, but get much less than the factory leather package.

 

Mine lines up too... but your leather may be thicker...

but do a test and see if anybody else notices anything bad or strange... if not.... its just you... don't worry about it.

 

That would drive me crazy. Have you talked to your dealer about it? Maybe it can be redone or corrected.

 

I didn't look at that right the first time.. I see now.. its offline and out of line... but whats funny is its on both sides?... looks like they left some padding out or something?...does it feel soft and plush like something you would want to rest your arm on for 400 miles?

If not.. take it back and demand they fix it right.

that leather has heavy grain.... it may be cheaper stuff... I usually think of finer leather as more tight and supple.

 

Here you go!

 

That was right neighborly of you Windstrings.

 

Makes me glad I flew up to Indiana to get my factory leather OP8 and drove back to Orlando, FL.

White/Tan factory leather OP8

 

What chu tawkin about Willis?

 

i completely disagree. you don't have to look closely to find an imperfection. I don't even have to click on the thumbnails to see that the armrests have gone horribly wrong. a car, esp. a prius, is an expensive purchase and that kind of installation is completely unacceptable. the first picture upon closer inspection shows a two to three mm gap with a visable scratch!

you'd think that in 2006, you'd have people with enough morals to do a job correctly than to leave you hanging and charge you money for it

i wonder if its quite possible that they either used the wrong car's armrests.. or they switched them and the right armrest is on the left side