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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Going to celebrate the 1,000,000 mile mark on my truck with a new seat. I'm wondering about going leather or cloth. I have cloth now and like it fine, but the replacement cloth seats don't look as durable. Wondering about leather. Will it hold up and be comfortable for a semi truck? Hoping to get another 1/2 million miles so I suppose that durability won't be as much of a factor as a new truck would, but....
 
Cost wise there is very little difference. I'm wondering if they will be hot in the summer. I spend 8-11 hours a day in it and don't want something that will be uncomfortable. I know that fabric breathes well. They are offering some new ones with temp control too, not just heat.
 
My 1963 Diamond-T has leather ones in it and I us to sit in it 10-12 hours a day with NO AC. Not an air ride seat either but the best riding truck/seat I have even drove
 
just my opinion jon I myself hated the leather seats in some of the trucks I drove, much perfered the cloth, but we never had climate controlled ones, but I do like not sliding around either cnt
 
Bose is now making truck seats, supposedly far superior to anything else on the market. Mind you, at around $6,000., they should be!!!!
 
I like cloth better than leather. The wear has been about the same and leather is hot in summer and cold in winter.
 
You haven't said if it was a big truck or p/u. With the mileage I'm assuming big. I strongly recomend a seat made by Seats Incoparated. I have one in the ultra leather that is 10yr old and gets my LARGE carcuss drug acrossed it no less than 50 times a day. No holes VERY little wear.
 
Replaced the seat in my Western Star with a new National cloth seat, and like it quite a bit. Up here in the arctic I don`t like leather because it is so cold and slick in the winter, and cracks out worse. I also like the breathability of the cloth, even with AC I always seem to get a damp shirt back in a leather seat.
 
One of the trucks we bought two years ago had leather seats in it. The guys would fight over who had to drive it. They all hated the seats. They where slick year round. Then your butt sweat in the summer and froze in the winter.

I put new cloth National seats in it and they really like them. I got the seats at Truck Country/Frieghtliner on sale for $495 each with air adjust cushions in the back and bottom.

Took the leather seats to an consignment sale and some one gave $400 for the pair. Lucky them.
 

Whichever you get, buy a full-size authentic (SHEEP)Fleece and put it on that seat...
It will last way over 1,000,000 miles and still be around for more..
Mine is now nicely resting on the seat of my Taurus..!!

Ron..
 
i put a talladega lso seat in my A model kw, drove it another 100,000 miles and a idiot wrecked the truck for me, that seat was leather and still showed no wear, big trucks, especially if they have drop visors on the windshield like mine did done seem to have any problem with the sun creating a "hot seat" like cars and pickups do
 
WRONG. I was a local truck driver as in dump truck. Before that I was over the road pulling mobile homes which few have the ^%%%$ to even try to
 
Stay with cloth. No matter what the promoters say, even with all those little vent holes, leather doesn't breathe.
Remember years back when vinyl was the way to go? Everybody bought "kool kushions" to keep from sweating so much, even used cushions in winter to stay off the cold vinyl. Hard to find a kool kushion in the store now, as most have switched to cloth.
Willie
 
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