Is this really leather?

[NIck Miller]

That might be it.  Its hard to describe.  It still feels somehwat supple,
but dry-smooth and incredibly akward.
On Feb 12, 2011 7:31 AM, "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> My guess (and it's only a guess) would be that the tanning process has
been
> changed to meet new environmental requirements, much like the recent
switch
> to water-based auto paints. The "old" leather we are used to was
> chrome-tanned or aldehyde-tanned. They may have switched to a new "green"
> tanning process. The tanning process determines how supple and
> water-resistant the leather is.
>
> Fred Munro
> '97 S6
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On
> Behalf Of NIck Miller
> Sent: February 11, 2011 7:05 PM
> To: Grant Lenahan; quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Is this really leather?
>
> I noticed the exact same thing at the san diego auto show this jan. The
> audi A3 I checked out made me cringe. The steering wheel just felt so
> weird, and smooth and akward compared to my miata or any other mazda with
a
> leather wheel. Which is odd. Same with a lot of other cars there.
>
> Even the audi a3 seats were a bit of a joke, stained blue on the raised
> portions from all the deneim that'd been in them.
>
> I don't know if this is typical of brand new cars, auto show cars, or what
> but its odd. I've test driven near-new cars before and never noticed this
> but the lowest mileage car I've ever had is 20k and the leather there was
> nice and supple, and grippy on the wheel. My lotus' seats had 15k when I
> got them, as well, amazing feel to them if not a bit rigid still.
> Weird deal, that new leather feel.
> On Feb 11, 2011 4:47 PM, "Grant Lenahan" <glenahan at vfemail.net> wrote:
>> Porsche leather, unless you special order the fancier interiors, is not
> great stuff. So font go by that. My Audi's leather >>> my boxster's.
>>
>> Also, old leather softens and gets a patina. New leather looks like the
> dye it is.
>>
>> But then again, my "new" car is 7 years old and my regular car is 9 1/2
> years old, so what do i know?
>>
>> Grant
>> On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Michael McLaughlin wrote:
>>
>>> The auto show is this weekend and I spent some time there this
>>> afternoon. One thing that struck me was that the quality of the
>>> leather in most of the interiors was not impressive at all - the BMW
>>> leatherette seemed nicer to me than much of the actual leather, and
>>> the leather in my nine-year-old Passat is nicer than the leather in
>>> all but the most expensive cars there (Porsches, for one). There were
>>> cars in the $40,000-plus price bracket where the leather felt like
>>> vinyl to me. Am I being overly critical, or has the quality of leather
>>> in cars gone downhill over the past few years?
>>>
>>> -Mike in Spokane, Wash.
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