Leather or Vinyl for Captains Chairs
We are updating our 9 year old unit. Have looked at and sat in dozens of seats. The ones we found and like the best are vinyl. Is there a huge difference in feel over time? These are amish made from a...
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ScottG wrote:
People are going to hate this but vinyl will out last leather 10 to 1.
Check out any old cars from the 60's or 70's. The leather ones are shot where the vinyl often still looks new.
Anything will outlast leather and stay looking good longer without splits or cracking.
A final note, only the wear surface is generally real leather anyway (the part that cracks first) the rest is vinyl.
JMO.
+2 on that Scott, I saw the same thing over and over back in my "loves antique cars" days, before kids came, now "loves Harleys" era. I would take a quality Naugahyde synthetic leather over a cheap grade of real leather any day. However if you compare the leather in our BMX X3 to the leather in our Toyotas, you'd want to find where THAT leather comes from! :)
