mercerized

fju2112

Thanks! Not sure I would tackle it myself but good to know just in case.

hogger453

Just ordered leather covers from Richmond Auto Upholtery almost 1/2 the price

Channell

Crazy did you mean its rips so well. The whole interior of my E350 is trash rolled up drivers window and they cheap painted icon peeled off the button. This will happen with all the cheap painted plastics. I took my drivers seat out and bought a cheap leather one and im going to cut them section out and show in then leather. Bet it won't tear again. In selling this German turd before anything else tears up. MB is a joke!

Rickman30

Keep us updated on the Richmonds, I've read about half have good luck and the other half not so much. I want them as my Jeep WJ needs both front bottoms done.

My W123 had MB Tex, that car had over 300k miles on it, not one blemish on any of the seats, only two cracks in the dash. The W212 seats do hold you better, but the older seats were more comfortable long distance traveling. Or maybe my older *** is not as forgiving as it once was...

fju2112

are the ones sold by Richmond not OEM? When you say half have good luck do you mean about the Benzes in particular, or in general?

Channell

Neither one is innovative and only have good marketing. Well yeah the Crapple store will swap your plastic lid. Cost them $1.00 in materials and they know fans will be back for a flavor of Lenox sprinkler with their proprietart code. I'm blow away with the Iflop 15 so innovative adding another camera. Just so you know osx will run on a Acer laptop. It's just against the control freaks EULA. Every IPhone in make at Foxcon in China and the employee's are treated like slaves. That's a reason to not support them and the fact that they are control freaks no 3.5 audio port but we will sell you ours at a rediculous price. Lol.

fju2112

I thought you were selling your German junk? Does that go for the Chinese junk (iPhone) too?

DFWdude

Just for the record to represent the experience of other W212 owners...

My 2016 W212 is now 8 years old, and I've NEVER had any problems whatsoever with the MB-TEX seats. They look as new today as they were in 2016. Car is parked in my garage when not in use.

My 2001 C-Class sedan had ZERO MB-TEX seat problems until it was more than 20 years old. Parked outside the garage since I bought the W212 in 2018, I suspect the seats became affected by the sun.

IMO, some of you people are too rough with your seats.

fju2112

This is a known issue on some W212s. My mechanic works exclusively on Benz vehicles (added a BMW tech so now does both brands). When I saw the seam start to come apart, I asked them to fix it. The owner said he had tried many times to fix the same issue in W212s in various ways and couldn't find a solution that kept it from tearing again due to a design flaw with the foam underneath and where it meets the cover. He told me to wait until it got bad enough that I wanted to replace the skin entirely, and I'm now there. This was about 6 years and ~65K miles ago.

It's very likely by 2016, the last year of the W212 sedan, they fixed the underlying issue; apparently some 2014 owners like myself weren't so lucky. I'm relatively medium sized (certainly not overweight) and my ingress and egress is very careful due to a) loving my car enough that I don't want to see stress marks on the bolsters, and b) having back issues in a previous life

Rickman30

Luck in general, Richmond makes for all makes. The Seat Shop claims they omit fasteners need to do a factory job and use inferior vinyl compared to the products they use. Being familiar with their product, they seem to mainly cover what they deem as "More common" vehicles, GM, Toyota, etc...

They do have a video showing the difference between theirs and Richmonds. But as they don't cover my needs, and I had bad luck matching at local auto trim shops, I'm going Richmond too.

Check dealer parts, they still show my W212 seat bottoms in beige as of yesterday. Expensive, but they will be exact match, no color variations or fitment problems.

fju2112

Define "expensive" - if you have a link to what you're looking at just so I can compare the black seat cushion cover?

Rickman30

From a dealer in Mississippi, part #212-910-73-46-8P26. $490 plus tax and shipping. which is usually very high from them.

Their shipping sucks so bad on another order, it was cheaper for me to drive there and pick up myself. and was still $100 cheaper than my dealer, still adding in the fuel costs.

We just added the extra miles to a trip we were taking already.

fju2112

Hmm despite the shipping I may ask for the name of the dealer!

Rickman30

Mercedes-Benz of South Mississippi.

hogger453

New cover from Richmond.

Matched stitching a really wonderful product.

juanmor40

Perhaps the following thread is worth reading since these seats seem to be creating "back pain", and "$$$ pain"

https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w...ml#post7261798

hogger453

Appreciate the info.

These seats are very comfortable for me. I actually look forward sitting in this car.

Maybe due I'm so use to all the track cars I've had over the years and still track my current track car.

Thank you.

juanmor40

I think that @nc211 's finding that relates to the ripping of the seat is that the spring is too soft, and allows us to sink too much putting strain on the seat cover stitches and ripping apart. We can blame the stitches to be too tight, or too much stretching due to lack of support.

hogger453

Got it thanks

wishihadahorse

MB-Text has gotten considerably crappier since my '91 300TE W124 wagon.[/QUOTE]

I'm new to MB and I'm really surprised they offered "MB-Taxi" back then or even now. For the price they are getting for these cars, the MB-Text plastic is a joke. I refused to buy one with this cheap alternative. I just didn't want to settle for less than expectations.[/QUOTE]