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Leather group buy started! 2/7/02
Leather group buy ended! 2/20/02
List of people that has paid already
1. Riley
2. Walsh
3. jjcbr
4. Webb
5. Valcarcel
6. Mancini
7. Eversole
8. Bolduc
9. Yu
10. Alexiou
List of people who has not paid yet
1. Salinas
2. Gorton
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______________________In a Nutshell_______________________
Leather group buy for Mk1, 2, 3 and 4 along with Jetta Wolfsburg, Beetles, and Passats. Complete leather interior. Seats, door panels, head rests and arm rest.
Need 10 people. Prices shown below.
To get in: email me at [email protected]
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_________________________Details__________________________
Whats Included: Full leather seat covers (front and back), the kit includes the door panels and arm rest too! 54 different colors are available. Each member will receive FREE embroidery on the front seats and FREE two-toning in any of our 54 colors.
Front Seats: Genuine Leather
Rear Seats: The rear only uses leather on the inserts.. if you want the whole rear seating surface to be leather, you need to specify that.. they'll do it for an extra $70. You can also specify "no gathers" also known of as "smooth" for $30. Most factory "leather," including that from VW and semi-luxury and luxury manufacturers only uses leather inserts in the rear. Very rarely will you find full leather seating surfaces throughout the car from the factory. The rear is vinyl on the outside.
Door Panels and arm rest: Eiither vinyl material with leather puckering sewn in or flat vinyl fabric
These covers are OEM spec and are made to install in place of your factory cloth or leather seat covers. Once installed they will look just like the factory leather seat covers.
They are side airbags and heated seats and folding rear bench COMPATIBLE.
There are 3 different kinds of leather inserts available for us:
1. Perforated Flat = meaning small ventilated holes in inserts only.
2. Non-Perforated flat(smooth)= Tighter, sportier fit like what would come factory on a leather VW.
3. Non Perforated gathered = gathered looks like what would come in a new Mercedes Benz. This is what is come with as default.
The inserts "only" are wrinkled and gives a more luxurious appeal.
P.S If you want your car to have a stock leather appeal then go with #2 (non preforated smooth). Suede inserts come in Non Perforated Flat (smooth).
There are 8 different colors for Suede Inserts:
Navy Blue, Dark Mist Grey, Light Slate, Dark Taupe, Sandstone, Med. Taupe, DK. Camel Tan, Dark Slate
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_________________________Prices__________________________
Prices (Not including installation of course):
Buyers: Discount: Price:
1..........................0%.....................$679.00
3..........................5%.....................$645.00
5.........................10%....................$611.00
7.........................12%....................$597.00
10.......................15%....................$577.00
20.......................20%....................$543.00
Ground Shipping..................$25.00(rough est.)
Wolfsburg Edition needs to pay $100 more.
Wolfsburg kit comes with a full leather seating surface in the rear
seat along with leather/vinyl doors. The console remains vinyl
because of its ease of installation. The leather is thicker and most
find it more difficult to install.
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_________________________Options_________________________
Two-tone..............................FREE (Optional, so if you dont want it it's fine)
2 embroideries......................FREE (Optional, so if you dont want it it's fine)
Color Double Stitching...........$20.00
Colored Piping......................$60.00, $50.00 for a group of 10
Flat Perforated inserts...........$35.00, $30.00 for a group of 10
Flat Non-perf inserts.............$35.00, $30.00 for a group of 10
Extra Logos..........................$25.00, $20.00 for a group of 10
Suede inserts in any of 8 colors for an additional $100.00.
Whole Rear Seats in leather $70.00
Installation kit that includes the hog-ring pliers, hog-rings, and the 3M super-adhesive upholstery glue that you will need for the door inserts $35.00
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_________________________How to order______________________
Anyone who is ready to order please email [email protected] with the following info:
1. Name
2. Email Address
3. Phone Number
Then call Eric at leatherseats.com toll FREE 1-866-NEW-SEAT (1-866-639-7328) or drop him an email [email protected] to place your order.
The beauty of this deal is you dont have to know what you are ordering as of right now to place your order. Just call Eric and tell him you want in on the Group Buy and he will count you in.
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__________________________Links__________________________
Photographs:
http://www.watercooledvw.com/leather.htm
Installation Instructions:
http://members.aol.com/~j0sep4/leather.html
http://forums.tdiclub.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=000875
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[Modified by helpmeplease, 12:41 AM 2-21-2002]
 

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Re: NEW Leather group buy (Jettaway)

The leather package from Volkswagen have vinyl at those places too.
These vinyl from Katzkin are very high quality, you cant tell them away from the leather unless u look at them very carefully.


[Modified by helpmeplease, 3:36 AM 2-8-2002]
 

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Re: NEW Leather group buy (helpmeplease)

quick question:
i want to get in on a good deal like this, but i won't get a chance to install the kit until May (after i get home for the summer). if i were to buy now and have my parents keep the boxes in our house until then, would i have anything to worry about in terms of it shrinking (as a result of exposure to air, etc.....i know that the leather's supposed to fit kinda baggy for a while until it can dry out more or something)?
 

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Re: NEW Leather group buy (cloink)

Here's my car:
quote:[HR][/HR]Am I the only one who think those covers are hideous, compared to the stock leather[HR][/HR]​
Try looking at them when they are actually on seats. I have had nothing but big props on my seats.


[Modified by kreuzerGOLF18T, 6:50 AM 2-8-2002]
 

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Re: NEW Leather group buy (helpmeplease)

I don't know if I'd say better than factory, but not half bad. I'd almost suggest buying without leather for the headrests, then get the headrests from the dealer, but I don't know how much they are.
 

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Re: NEW Leather group buy (jetta_fiend)

The pictures of the covers on the seats look alright; but every pic of the door panel pieces looks horrible. Like its about to fall off! I just dont know, maybe its not installed correctly!
 
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