"Leather" coming apart and peeling

Bruce Brown wrote:

down home wrote:
Our 2005 has the ultra leather and is in great shape. A year or longer later they started using a cheaper ultra leather, or polyurethane I think it is. it was on these forums and others.
We looked at Winnebago, some American Coach and the others and their seat covers feel like the really cheap car seat covers from Japan 30 years ago as well as the seats being smaller and hard and not fitting us.

The stuff in our '08 is still good, thankfully.

In the OPs case I can't say he would have had any different result had he bought another brand. They all pretty much use the same suppliers.

And that would be LCI. The furniture they manufacture, or have manufactured under the brand name "Thomas Payne" and prior under other names, is absolute junk from the upholstery to the framework, and almost every manufacture uses it /them. Somehow they think the name Thomas Payne reflects quality in furniture LOL. I don't know how, Thomas Payne was a patriot and was a stay maker by trade, which is a person who makes corsets.

It all follows the LCI business model. Build it cheap, make any replacement parts proprietary, then price them 4 times what they're worth. They do it with everything.

You can go on any RV brand specific forum and find hundreds if not thousands of posts regarding the cracking and peeling pleather.

Cracking, Peeling,More peeling, And more peeling, More peeling, And even more peeling and cracking!

It amazes me this industry gets away with what they get away with. I have already come to the conclusion I will be replacing or reupholstering the balance of stuff in our 2020 Grand Design if I keep it long term. I was lucky with our 2014. It was just starting to show cracking and peeling when traded last year. In actuality the pleather was @ 4 years old or a little less.