woofy
15-12-2008, 10:08 AM
HI I looked into this before getting the RS, but have been flat out and not chased it up.
Basically I normally would protect the fabric parts of my cars with something like the auto verson of scotchgard and then use a good leather protector on the leather bits.
The thing is that alcantara seems to be a mysterious fabric which some people say to use just normal stuff on, but it seems alcantara by design already has protection built into it...any ideas there?
I was going to just scotchgard the black inserts, but then saw warnings about the seat heating, again wouldn't the wires etc by covered, so as long as its a light mist, should be fine.
And lastly, the leather...the seat leather appears to be possibly coated in which case leather cleaning/protection would be wasted...or does it just appear to be. The steering wheel leather seems different, so is probably fine to use that on.
In any case, the scotchgarding will need to be done soon before the seats get too dusty...the leather can wait until it needs it.
Basically I normally would protect the fabric parts of my cars with something like the auto verson of scotchgard and then use a good leather protector on the leather bits.
The thing is that alcantara seems to be a mysterious fabric which some people say to use just normal stuff on, but it seems alcantara by design already has protection built into it...any ideas there?
I was going to just scotchgard the black inserts, but then saw warnings about the seat heating, again wouldn't the wires etc by covered, so as long as its a light mist, should be fine.
And lastly, the leather...the seat leather appears to be possibly coated in which case leather cleaning/protection would be wasted...or does it just appear to be. The steering wheel leather seems different, so is probably fine to use that on.
In any case, the scotchgarding will need to be done soon before the seats get too dusty...the leather can wait until it needs it.