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Factory leather from jeep, ford and VW has always sucked..... Seems fake. It's far from supple high end hides.

 

Its an artificial leather. Even that has different quality... I think its better to go to any good local tuning atelier and ask them to alter your seats with genue leather, and you can choose it and touch it. I did so as did not find any good after market covers.... Also I asked them to leather my dash and door pannels with the same Nappa leather and alcantara. Also custom armrest and thicker wheel.... Now I love it not only from outside but also from inside .

 

now THAT is AWESOME. no doubt expensive but well worth it.

i heard that katskins makes the oem leather seats, but the katskins i've seen that the dealer had installed looked better than the oem to me. i agree that the oem leathers i test drove didn't seem as nice as it should be, but that leather smell and feeling still was tempting. i'm not one to order and wait and the dozer 2012 i wanted and got has the black cloth, but i livened it up with some marathon seat covers that i like.

 

Who did your work it looks Killer. Would like to do mine soon

 

And how about a few pix of those gauges above the mygig

 

The leather in the JK seems a lot tougher and more appropriate for a Jeep than the leather typically found in passenger cars. The napa leather in my old CLS 55 was the best of any car I've ever owned, but I don't think it would work well in a Jeep.

 

Here you go.... Its SC, Clocks and voltmetr.



Will later do a better one....

 

I have the saddle leather in my 2011, its actually leather trimmed, basically the center part of the seat is rear leather and the outsides/rest is fake. I like it alot so far.

 

Real or fake... i dont know... but other then being overpriced (like the rest of my jeep) I like it. And it is easy to clean mud off of.