nickn505

I was wondering whether rx7 interiors use real leather or pleather. I kinda hope it's not real leather. I have a leather interior and it doesn't feel like real leather. Plus on some of the corners deep in some parts there's odd patterns to the leather that look artificial.

mort2002

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well what trim level is your car. i know that my 89 TII is leather. i also have the leather inserts in the door panels. is yours a gxl, TII, SE, GTU?? and a year would help. casue i have seen one with like pleather in it.

nickn505

It's a 87 GXL. It has the "leather" interior with the leather inserts in the door panels and +2 leather seats in the back. The seats aren't like the Turbo II sport leather seats with alot of side support. If you have the rx7 gold portfolio, look at the first 2nd gen article on page 83. My car is EXACTLY like that one.

wankelme!

actually they're made from naugha-hyde,the naugha is a small furry mammal with exceptionally thick skin which live in the florida everglades.it takes aproximately 50 naugha hydes to make one car seat,so the karmic debt incurred by driving a car with naugha-hyde seats is quite large.The best way to overcome this karmic debt is to ship your seats to me here in florida and i will release them back into the wild.By the way.are they black or brown?

mort2002

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mine are blue

arghx

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I've sat in near mint, original T2 leather seats (I've got cloth in my T2) and I've sat in GXL leather seats, and the T2 leather seats feel much more like real leather to me. I think the GXL seats are definately pleather... but i'm not sure about the rest of the upholstery

nickn505

Wait... isn't the naugha that beaver looking thing that they tried to feed to people a few years ago? I'll have to search right now.

I think I might sell my seats but only after I find another project FC to work on while I swap parts into/strip my car. The seats are grey and in perfect condition (including the +2 seats in the rear) I've had more than one 7 owner tell me they're the best condition leather seats they've seen. If I can find a good project FC down here then look out for them in the for sale section. I'll also include the door panels and the rear louvers that came with my car

I wonder though, if it takes 50 hides to make one seat, wouldn't there be alot of stiching in the seats and not just the cheezy fake stitching? Maybe like arghx said, only the turbo's came with leather

7droptop

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most leather car interiors use both. the "face" of the seat {the part you sit on} is typically leather and the sides/ back {sometimes} are vinyl for durabillitys sake and price

how i know this ? i work at a custom car shop and we do leather conversions and this is typically the case
hope this helps

nickn505

I was wondering why I couldn't find anything about animal rights related to nauga (spelled without an H) then on Wiki I found this. It solved alot of my questions:

"Naugahyde marketing includes a fictional animal called the "Nauga" whose hides are supposedly the natural source of all the Naugahyde manufactured. According to the story [1], which has become something of folk-lore in parts of Connecticut, the Naugas are nocturnal, hairless, aquatic mammals of many colors that live in the Naugatuck River, and can be made to come to the surface at night by shining a flashlight into the water. The Naugas are then captured and sorted by color to be made into the various colors of Naugahyde. Allegedly, when rolled together on a mechanical press, the seams between the Naugas disappear, resulting in a seamless, leather-like product. A popular bumper sticker stated simply: "Save the Naugas!".[citation needed]"

I'm going to spray paint my seats in a symbolic protest against nauga cruelty

7ryder

I wonder if they can be used as food when you're trapped.

Icemark

Leather was on the seating surfaces only. The sides and backs used vinyl