Premature Leather Seat Wear

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mrock

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My 2015 Laramie EcoDiesel leather seats are already showing signs of wear. Has anyone else encountered this? It only has 2260 miles on it and looks more worn than my 2011 F350 with 96000 miles. Any advice?
 
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mrock

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With only 220 miles I didn't think I needed to do anything yet
 
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mrock

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I talked to the dealer today. They said this is the second instance they have seen in the last 2 weeks. They took photos and submitted to Chrysler warranty department.
 
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mrock

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Dealer replaced the leather yesterday under warranty
 

EagleChief

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Good to hear they replaced it. I was curious about the leather options when I was looking at trucks. My wife wanted the leather, I didn't care one way or the other. Talking to one dealer, they recommended getting the Katskin leather over the normal leather due to it being a better quality. The salesman said they have had issues with the stock leather wearing out a lot faster because it's thin and a lower quality. We ended up sticking with the cloth seats and decided if we really want leather, we'll have the seats redone at a local shop with a custom job. It will cost about the same as upgrading from the factory anyway.
 

xrsman

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15,000 kms on my 2014. Longhorn leather looks great still!
 

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longhorn and leather and larime leather is very different. I have sold over a hundred sets of larime seats and they are all out of trucks with under 20k and some seats look great and others you would think had 100k or better on them. I have had a bunch of longhorn seats and they wear like steel
 

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longhorn and leather and larime leather is very different. I have sold over a hundred sets of larime seats and they are all out of trucks with under 20k and some seats look great and others you would think had 100k or better on them. I have had a bunch of longhorn seats and they wear like steel
Good to know I wasn't just paying for colour! Lol
 

Badunit

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longhorn and leather and larime leather is very different. I have had a bunch of longhorn seats and they wear like steel

Unfortunately, if you need the bench seat up front like I do, the Longhorn (which is buckets only up front) and its leather is not available (unless something is new in 2015).
 

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I'm not sure if it's available at all dealerships, but mine offered a 5 year warranty package for the interior including leather tearing, ripping, premature wearing, etc.
 

Echo42987

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I have a 2014 Laramie Limited EcoDiesel and haven't had any problems yet but after you mentioned it, I am going to be keeping a close eye on it. I have about 8k on mine already.
 
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