seat peeling
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2018 GLC63
seat peeling
I was cleaning my seats and noticed that they felt very rough... I saw the seat had what seems to be like a matte-finish on top of the genuine leather. This finish can be peeled off, almost like a plasti-dip. Has anyone run into this issue before and know how to fix it?
Pics here:
https://imgur.com/a/KMj4M
Pics here:
https://imgur.com/a/KMj4M
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Looks to me like the lacquer finish is peeling off the surface of the leather. Not sure why it would do that or what to do about it. Too much humidity maybe? Interested to see people's experience with this.
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I was cleaning my seats and noticed that they felt very rough... I saw the seat had what seems to be like a matte-finish on top of the genuine leather. This finish can be peeled off, almost like a plasti-dip. Has anyone run into this issue before and know how to fix it?
Pics here:
https://imgur.com/a/KMj4M
Pics here:
https://imgur.com/a/KMj4MWhat I see here I suspect is that someone has had the seat sprayed to over come wear and it has not been prepared properly and the coating is delaminating from the coating originally applied to the leather when it was first manufactured before being cut into seat parts..
Since the seat is buggered anyway, take a QTip and dampen it with Acetone but no dripping. Roll it across the surfaces where the delamination is occuring on the lighter side and see if it dissolves this coating. I suspect the lighter stuff in your pic will dissolve on to the QTip really easily.
The only fix MAY be to strip the seats and recoat. There is a couple of excellent posts on the R170 SLK website on recoating seats and no doubt perhaps here as well.
Last edited by Alex.currie44; Oct 21, 2017 at 12:22 AM.
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As always, the quality of any paint job is in the prep and I think they did little if anything before recoatong that seat.
Of course I cannot get a close look at it so this is all opinion on my part but having worked in the interior coverstock for cars industry I have a some experience and am very suspicious about what I see.
Last edited by Alex.currie44; Oct 21, 2017 at 11:36 AM.
