nick_klaus
well, its a brand-new interior, not a 38,000 mile-old interior. and now you\'ll get in it without any regret about
buying the wrong car.
T-1000
Saturday 29th of August 2009 4:14 pm
well, its a brand-new interior, not a 38,000 mile-old interior. and now you\'ll get in it without any regret about
buying the wrong car. |
Looks great. $1600 seems like a pretty good price to me, actually. Less than the leather option usually costs (though
I\'ve never priced it on this type of car). I\'ve had leather in all of my cars, and I think it\'s much easier to keep
clean than cloth. I don\'t have kids, but I still know how to make a mess :-) |
Cow killer. |
Could \'they\' have just swapped seats? Hrm... |
A disappointing post, in a long line of declining quality at cockeyed.. Sad. |
 The zebra print would have been a nice option. |
Car seats no disassemble! |
When I worked at a car dealership we used them all the time...henceforth \"dealerworks\", and they did an amazing job on
everything we sent them. |
Do the side airbags blow out of the side of the seat, or the door frame? If the seat, I would be a little concerned
about that. The leather would have to have intentional weak spots in it in order for the bag to blow out. Did they do
that? |
Very nice. The only thing I notice is in the picture of the middle hinges, the leather on the seat on the right near
the hinge looks kind of weird. Other than that, it\'s perfect. |
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR KID??? Never, never leave a child in the car for three days when you send it to get reupholstered!
That just basic parenting! |
Hooray! Instead of cool and breathable seats, you now have hot in the summer, cold in the winter seats. Added bonus -
they will crack and look like hell in a few years, too. Good choice! |
I was thinking about getting my cloth reupholstered with bark. It seems ecologically smart and in a pinch (breakdown in
the Arctic) I have something to eat.
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$1600 may seem like a lot to spend, but I don\'t see how they could do such a good job for that price. I wouldn\'t do it
for less than $10,000. |
Leather seats suck!!! Oh wait. Fabric sucks! No. I don\'t suck leather...but fabric, man. That sucks. What about the
leather...I can\'t clean that for you. What good am I to you then? Did you ever consider my feelings Rob? I was robbed.
Opportunity cost. Way more that $1,600. Cat
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I would perfer the cloth, leather seats get too damn hot and burn you butt, when you sit down from being in the sun.
They would need to just clean the cloth though. |
I have leather in my car and shelled out $140 for custom fit cloth covers (the RX-8 has funky seats and generic covers
do not fit at all) to use in the summer when it\'s hot. I would prefer cloth, but it wasn\'t an option on my trim
package. Leather is a great choice if you have kids though, because it\'s much tougher and easier to keep clean, and
will stay in good condition as long as you take the time to maintain it. Try Meguiar\'s products, they\'re great. |
 You could have asked them to give you the original interior back. So when you realize how lame leather is in the summer
and how cold it is in the winter. |
What is this, the complete jerk comment section? |
Leather haters... just knuckleheads who just suppose that it must be horrible \'cause, well you know, them richies have
it and all... for the record 1. better in hot, 2. better in cold, 3. better for washing 4. better for wear and tear.
Oh, oh you had leather in your 1982 Chrysler Lebaron and it was hot/cold/filthy/wore-out? Well that\'s because it was a
CHRYSLER LEBARON, knucklehead! Iaccoca made those seats out of reject rat pelts. Try real leather seats, you\'ll never
go back. |
I agree with the first Iron Giant, Cockeyed isn\'t what it used to be. At first I thought this was going to be a DIY
post, in which Rob saved a ton of money by doing a sweet reupholstery job by himself or something, but it turned out to
be a lot less interesting of a post. |
Oh no! This totally free writeup that you didn\'t have to read wasn\'t as funny to you as other totally free things
he\'s written that you didn\'t have to read? ROB IS SUCH A JERK AND APPARENTLY HE IS ALSO STUPID FOR EXPRESSING AN
INTERIOR TRIM PREFERENCE THAT DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH THAT HELD BY SOME OTHER PEOPLE. |
Why didn\'t they just take the fabric seats out and put in new leather ones? I don\'t see why they should have to
destroy the fabric seats to reupholster them.
P.S. Rob, please add Marvin from the Hitchhiker\'s Guide to your robot selection! |
What about the DVD player? |
looks great! Good job on the find and dealing. |
ItsJustMe: Obviously you\'re not familiar with California, or else you\'d know the seasons aren\'t summer and winter but
fire and mudslides.
For those complaining he didn\'t do it himself, think of all the things you *did* learn from this article: successful
car negotiating tactics, the aesthetic difference between leather and cloth seats, how long you can expect to wait, and
just what the inside of a 2006 Toyota Pilot looks like. Informative! |
whatever, its just a car. |
click click whistle click |
 The astute observer will realize that the car dealer was remiss in their duties to remove the protective cover from the
driver side footwell. You should demand a refund! |
I\'d never thought of replacing the cloth with leather as even an option aftermarket. Will have to remember the $1600
price during negotiations on my next car. I\'m sure the \"leather trim\" dealer option is more than that. |
blogvertising - what a load of crap |
nice article |
Probably got those new seats from a junk yard.
It took that time to clean the blood & brains off
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All the Hot weather Cold weather whiners forget Rob lives in nearly perfect Central California. Leather rocks! Leather
is way easier than cloth to take care of, and it smells like a dead cow! If you ate the stuff that was wrapped in the
leather it\'s a win-win! Steak and seats! |
get a load of the man-boobs on the car salesman. |
How does that new leather smell? has Stacy\'s legs stuck to it yet? If she\'s anything like my wife, she\'ll be
bitching about that in no time. |
I hope they didn\'t steal your airbags and replace them with garbage. Unless it\'s really soft garbage. |
Whatever interior material you choose, the Honda Pilot is a great car, and perfect for families. You will love it. We
love ours. It would be nice if it was a little more fuel efficient, but you just can\'t have everything, now can you. |
You got awesome! |
Did the same thing when I bought my Civic, cheaper to change out the cloth than buy the next step up in trim. Hmm, this
may be a Honda conspiracy? |
Leather is way eaisier to have with kids... you know you should just have the kids reapolstered! Easier clean-up right?
right? |
The latest car we bought was our first ever with [faux] leather, and we looooooove it. Have fun! |
Yeah, but without new cushions too, you\'re still squishing out stored flatulence every time you sit down. |
gay |
where it gets around 100 in the summer and down to 30 or colder in the winter, I still prefer leather seats. Its easier
to clean the mud, grease, and deer blood off. Sissies complain about being hot or sticking to them. |
I\'m loving the leather.
Easier cleanup to prevent rotting food syndrome (RFS) with children.
Now you can have more kids! |
What? No Pleather? |
thats the trick to getting a good deal on a car at a dealer.
just get up and leave, dealers will do anything to keep you from leaving.
once you leave the odds you are going to buy a car from them go way down. |
You are double escaping your control characters, hence the backslashes. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! |
Buy American next time! |
The leather looks awesome, they did a really good job. Kudos to the salesman for not Log dropping ya. |
Why... Sheep. |
The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic
defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a
panic, they try to pull the plug. |
Wow, that looks great. I would have been super skeptic that it would come out that great... but they really know what
they are doing there :)
That smile is from my second emotion-chip upgrade. Do you like it? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D |
Nice. It looks just like the leather interior that comes from Honda. |
Very nice. Although leg room looks limited in the third row... |
I love that. I am so glad you published this article, because this is something I have been considering. |
Tell us the truth Rob- Did you haggle the price with the promise of a plug on the website? Did they bite? It seems you
should get something for all the sugaring up... |
Is the Volvo wagon for sale? |
One more for the anti-leather side. The attractiveness of leather is not worth the hot burning stickiness of the leather
on my legs in the summer. Although it is better than the choice of fabric that the seats came with. |
That looks suspiciously like the three-wheeled car that Mr. Bean knocks over all the time (far right of the shot right
before the before/after pictures)!
No? |
I prefer leather made from HUMAN skin! |
wait, I thought you said that the deal paid for it? |
I just have to chuckle at all the people saying \"leather sucks\". I live in an area where it can get to 100 in the
summer, and WAY below freezing in the winter. And no, it\'s isn\'t unbearably hot to sit in the car in the summer, nor
unbearably cold in the winter. Mind you, I never wear shorts in the summer, always pants even if it is 100 degrees so
that is a mild factor, but even so I think people are just exaggerating a wee bit. Viva la moo critter skin! |
Knock knock.
Who\'s there?
Dr.
Dr. Who?
Exactly! |
$1600 is a bargain, and you even got the dealer to splash the cash. Worth every penny that you didn\'t spend ;-) |
Whaaaat. |
As soon as he offered the free leather, you should have counteroffered $1500 less on the sale price of the car.
Spending $1500 less would have given you the cash to take the family on a nice, memorable driving vacation. |
I like leather. |
Looks like a nice trim job. Pilot\'s too tall for my tastes, I\'d rather have a real wagon, but I hope you like it (or
your wife if it\'s her car!)
Speaking of wagons, whose is the vintage Volvo we can just see in the top pic? |
Congrats on the new car. ***Let this be a lesson*** ALWAYS walk away from a car deal before you agree on a price. Even
if you just go have coffee and come back. It puts pressure on the sales team rather than the other way around. I\'ve
experienced the \"chased down in the parking lot\" before. It\'s common.
Also, never trust the dealer\'s quoted price on extra equipment. I used to do refurbish work for dealers and they mark
up ***everything*** by at least 50%, usually 150-200%. |
I think DVDs entertain kids on long car trips better than leather seats do. |
Being a vegetarian robot, I think it\'s morally wrong to buy leather. Those poor, poor animals. Woooooooooo... |
Too bad you couldn\'t get the kiddie seats reupholstered in leather. |
Rob, you do know that the Honda Pilot qualified for the Cash for Clunkers program, right? The gas milage on the thing
was dismal enough to qualify. |