I have a funeral to attend tomorrow and took the truck to have it washed and waxed. Got home and it looked great and decided I would work on a couple of stains that are on the grey interior of the passenger seat.

I am not a nasty person and honestly don't know what had caused the two stains, but they looked bad. Bought some cloth seat shampoo at the parts store and worked on the stains. With the shampoo being liquid, the more I scrubbed, the larger the stain ring grew.

So....... I have discovered that any liquid, even be it water, will cause a stain on these seats. Just got through shampooing the ENTIRE front seats so that all stain rings match and am PO'd at Dodge for putting such crap in a 45k truck.

 

I think that most vehicles are the same with regards to seats that stain. My Toyota did the same thing. My wife had a can of Sprite and spilled a little on the seat. It wasn't even a month old at the time. It left a stain where the spill was, and any attempt to clean it made it worse. I finally had to take it in to be professionally cleaned. I'm not sure what they used, but it worked.

 

i think the problem is that the seats collect dust, when water gets on them, they stain. its a huge pita and im always in a hurry to open and close the doors when its raining. i vote for some wet okley(sp) seat covers

brett

 

Yea it is a not just water, sprite or coke, but other stuff that was there before the spill. I have found that if you use a cleaner and a shop vac it wont spread. It is like everything else that gets a spill, if you just rub the stain around it willl just spread. Spray to penitrate then vacume then repeat.

 

I agree, they're JUNK!! I've owned other trucks and they didn't leave stains when they got wet.

 

I was forced to use a Cheby on a project last year. It was an extedned cab. I had a bottle of bleach in the back seat that opened and spilt on the back seat.
Dumped a couple of gallons of water on it. Though I'd just bought a cheby seat.....
Next day, nothing! No bleached spot, discoloration or anything. that material is something else.
I like leather to much though!

 

Ordered some Marathon seat covers in the same fabric that my '99 has had on for seven years. Zero problems with stains and a lot easier to slide across. My '07 fabric resembles sharkskin,albeit well constructed.

 

I'll second that. GM interiors are much more durable than my Dodge. My 01 Suburban gray cloth interior looks and feels much higher quality. I love everything else about my truck. But the interior is Yugo quality compared to my GM vehicles.

 

My '95 Suburban with leather was junk compared to the Dodge. The 'burb had so many dash rattles and cracks in the leather over the first two years it wasn't funny. The Dodge appears to be holding up better overall with no interior rattles and the seats look good as new.

The wife's Honda with leather is super nice and it sees all kinds of stuff with two little ones......from crackers to vomit and it all looks like new even after 4 years.

But, I keep on top of keeping things clean on the interior so that may help alot.

 

i need seat covers in my 06 also..they are bad, cant keep em lookin clean
they put that junk in the 07 i checked out to .. crazy

 

You just can't go wrong with Leather! But for the cost of these rigs the cloth interiors should be bullet proof!

Take Care,

Travis R. Bullock

 

I looked at the 06' trucks and hated the material myself compared to my 04'. I would of bought leather for sure if i would of got an 06' and I prefer cloth seats.

 

My 03 was leather. My 06 is cloth. I wont make that mistake again. The cloth seats do stain with even rain water on them. I used a small Hoover carpet cleaning machine and cleaned them and then got two cans of 3M Scotch Guard. Now everything rolls of these seats for under 10.00. But I noticed the leather seats had much better butt support than the cloth do. Next truck will have leather.

 

I have a 06 with cloth and have had it since about late june and my seats have some stains from rain,drinks,coffee and god only know what else. It's funny just two days ago i got fed up with it and took some drastic messures and went to wal mart and bought a grey towel and cut it in have and put them on it may not look too good but better than having your seats ruined and preety cheap too so maybe you might want to go try the ol' wally world trick.

 

and this is why I will eventually get Katskinz.