Cloth VS. Leather seats

[nr123]

Leather and Alcantara

Corrected for you

[Aman_vtr]

Cheers for your views fokes, I pick it up on Friday. (They had to send the alloys off for re-ferbs, hope they are looking slick!)

I did not know the cloth was retro GTI tartan, so thanks for that input as well!!

[AlanD]

Did you not sit in it / see it / test drive before you bought it ? ? ? 

[Aman_vtr]

yeah, I loved the ride (even though it was very short). I put a deposit down but when I spoke to a mate he was on about GTI are best with leather and DSG, etc. I never had leather before so was fine with it being cloth, but he got me worried about re-sale value. [have to admit I still to drive a DSG but I want manual for the moment].

the one I got is standard, i think only the 18in Alloys are the extras (but thats the main one for me)

really looking forward to it now after reading many posts from people who love their GTIs

[bobotheclown]

I had no choice in the matter as the run out models only came with leather which is nice as the tartan pattern gives me a headache.

[entropy]

I'd much prefer leather. Although, I appreciate that the cloth is a throwback to the original GTI. I have the cloth in mine as I couldn't for the life of me get find the spec I wanted(2nd). They either had manual and leather or dsg and cloth in the price range I was looking at and I really wanted the DSG.

My brother has the mk 4 gti anniversary edition and I much prefer his seats. The have the tartan look but the seats are black as opposed to the grey and tartan look in my mk5.

Are there any companies that can put leather in the golf using the exact leather from the factory? I know there are quite a few places that offer exact leather for other car models but not seen a place that offers it for VW.

[Emeye]

Personally I've always preferred cloth in my cars and I love the GTI fabric, but.....

in between my 2 MK5 GTIs I had a MK1 Audi TT with full leather, and when our 6 year old puked on the seats after I shoe horned him into the back  it was so easy to clean that I vowed I would only have leather in my cars especially with a baby on the way! Thing is the Audi leather is of a much better quality IMO and anyway I couldn't find a 5dr GTI with leather in my price range, so cloth it is - I just hope I don't get any more sick moments, but the TT suspension was pretty stiff!


Oh, and I would have the leather shell backed recaro seats in my car if I could ever find any - only ever seen them in one MK5 GTI years ago at stockport VW.

[markymark]

I love my cloth recaro's but think the Ed30 half and halfs are awesome, im also starting to appreciate the pirelli seats now.
Here are my seats


 

[Gene Hunt.]

.......Edition 30 seats would be my fav choice. 
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the ED30 seats are very nice 
[/quote]..........think you will find mate the puke icon is for the horrible beige leather. The cool icon is for the edition 30 seats which are my fav choice.

[NewbieGTi]

Cloth seats for me. I found the leather seats too slippy and temperature hot/cold is not good as peeps have said.