Will we regret cream leather seats?

[Bubbinsmakesthree]

Looking at second hand cars and many have cream leather seats. We have DC aged 4 and 6. Is this a terrible idea? Will it constantly look filthy?

Well, do you want the car to remain looking pristine, or are you happy for it to become weathered?

Personally I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole - I find leather seats stick to the skin in summer, freeze you in winter and end up looking very worn no matter what you do.

Leather is very wipeable. Much more practical than cloth or velour.
Baby wipes get most things off.
We have a cream leather sofa and have managed to clean all sorts of mucky things off it.
Would definitely not let it put you off a car that is otherwise perfect. Obviously dark leather is slightly easier to keep clean.

One thing I would watch out for is matching cream seatbelts. I had those once and they got very grubby and couldn't get them clean.

Only if you’re not keeping the car once it gets to 4 years old- they wear badly even without children.

Yup, yup, yup. Dark colours are your friend.

We have dark leather seats in our current car and I don’t have a problem with leather itself - we have heated seats so lovely and warm in winter and they clean up well.

If you think leather wears badly you may be buying the wrong cars.
We have 4 cars between me and my husband, built between 1967 and 2005 all with leather seats.
The 2005 one has done 150k and the seats are like new. All of the seats are in good condition.
It does pay to buy quality.

Yes. Yes you will.

I find leather seats in a car much more practical than cloth. I have kids and a dog and just use a baby wipe on any mud or dirt. My car is four years old now and the interior looks at good as it did on day one.

It does pay to buy quality

What constitutes quality in your mind? Before my current car I had a Q7 with cream leather seats. So tired and worn when I got rid after 4 years.

What constitutes quality in your mind?

Not Audis certainly.

@Elai1978 how predictable

Perhaps you could opine on what is since that was my question.

Perhaps you could opine on what is since that was my question.

Lexus for a start

Leather over fabric in cars everytime (we have both).

Our cream leather seats are almost 10 years old and look great even with a child and dog.

Yup.

Kids aside, jeans will leave a sweaty bum shaped blue shadow.

Told my husband this when he bought a car with cream leather interior. He didn't believe me. How I laughed as he scrubbed.

I've had both colours in leather and black looks much grubbier than the cream. Muddy food scuffs really show up on the black

I've had the same experience with kitchen floors !

Leather wears very well, I don’t understand the comments that state it doesn’t. Cream will suffer from colour transfer tho, don’t wear jeans! Darker colours are better.

Leather wears very well, I don’t understand the comments that state it doesn’t

I find that the leather starts to crease on the side of the front seats and that leads to small cracks/a worn look. As I said in my last car it looked really bad after about 2.5 years. Was disappointing - but as a PP pointed out I wasn’t buying quality

That said cloth also wears so I still went for cream leather in my current car.

Now this shouldn't be used on leather but used it our cream suite and several cars, bath room trainers its just great, local Valeters recommended it
autosmart.co.uk/products/g101
Then feed the leather with this
autosmart.co.uk/products/clsu101h-leather-supplement