Full Leather ?

[DaveMorton_Eunos]

Is there an easy way to tell if my griff is full leather or not?

I know it was offered as a factory option.

Mine looks like leather and the door trim and dash are stitched if this helps any

Cheers



Dave

[cleg]

does the rest of the interior look the same as the facings of the seats?

if you look on the seats and see from the front to the seat edge/side covering the material looks slightly different and feels a bit diff, it will be half leather.

they stitch the other interior just the same as leather so it looks like it.

hope this helps.

[zippy500]

Good trick is to put leather care on it if it wont soak in and buffs up shinny its not leather. Its looks nice and clean afterwards though.

[tivhead]

As Cleg says.......

Half hide is leather where your back,bum & back of head sits on, the rest is vinyl.
Full leather is leather EVERYTHING. Put it this way, if the dash smells leathery, its full hide.

Tiv

[becky]

Mine has 'full hide' and it says so in the handbook under 'trim material' (owners records, page 4). Maybe worth a look in your handbook.

[DaveMorton_Eunos]

Good trick is to put leather care on it if it wont soak in and buffs up shinny its not leather. Its looks nice and clean afterwards though.......

Good idea I'll get the liquid leather out when I get it back I was going to clean it all at some point anyway.

BTW I've checked my owners book. Page 4 is there but blank

[richb]

Bound to offend someone here but...to be honest you should be able to tell pretty easily if you have plastic or leather. I know some people say you can hardly tell the difference but to my eyes it's pretty obvious. Plastic is shiney, less supple, smells (of plastic), is water repelent, doesn't breath etc. Sorry...

[ches]

Check.

>> Edited by ches on Thursday 13th June 22:04

[simpo one]

This thread begs the question - if you can't tell the difference, why bother?!! OK if it's free though, I suppose...

[dan]

It is fairly easy to tell the difference if you put 2 cars, one with full leather and one with half hide, together.

Mine is half hide and I'm pretty happy with it, in that its easier to look after (you can sponge it down etc. and it is less prone to going mouldy... allegedly), but a well looked after hide dash does look better, the ones I have seen look neater around the seams as the material is thinner, and they have a less shinney feel to them.

[Graham B]

A bit obvious but you should be able to smell the difference!

My old Griffith 400 had full leather and smelt bloody lovely. I owned it for 2 years and 23,000 miles and you could still smell the leather.

By contrast you can't smell anything in my Griffith 500 (half hide), unless I happened to have a curry the night before that is.

Graham

[davemorton_eunos]

Try liquid leather on your seats.

It restores the smell of leather and used enough the smell becomes permanent.

I used it every month or so on my pre TVR Mazda MX5 and it made the leather very soft, very clean and supple and also nice smelling too

Top product and highly recomended by me at least.


Dave

[ches]

So where do you get liquid leather then chaps?

[DaveMorton_Eunos]

The company is called Gliptone which I admit is little use without more details.

I've dug out a few classic car mags.

try 0161 8344153

Apparantly the imaginatively named www.liquidleather.com is the uk website?

Got my car back today from the touch I'd guess its not leather would have been a nice freeby though.



Dave