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Question about leather interior
- Thread starter Buckeye
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All parts of the seats (except the covering on the hard seat back) should be leather. The elasticated pouch on the seat back should also be leather. As far as i know, the door sills (between the bottom of the door glass and the door cards), the door armrests and lower doors/pockets, plus the top of the front dash (between the bottom of the front screen and the instrument panel), are vinyl.
I'll stand corrected!
I'll stand corrected!
Confirming @r44raven's post. Seats are 100% leather on all surfaces (including the headrest), and the door cards are vinyl/MB Tex. The removable front seat-back panels (which the leather seat-back pockets attach to) I believe are not covered in leather. For later cars, the center front seat armrest/telephone compartment should also be covered in pebbled grain leather, I believe.
I am not sure what the center armrest on the earlier cars (which is a wide cushioned pillow that folds up and down) is covered with, but I believe it is also leather.
I am not sure what the center armrest on the earlier cars (which is a wide cushioned pillow that folds up and down) is covered with, but I believe it is also leather.
I can confirm that the (non-telephone) armrest on my 1993 500e is definitely leather - top, bottom and sides.
About the removable front seat back panels, I'm not sure what the covering is. When I was carrying out a deep clean of the interior - assuming (incorrectly) the covering was leather, I used a special leather cleaner on it - and the surface material melted! My only recourse was to source a complete replacement!
