'08 iTech leather seat paint

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by T1 Terry, May 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM.

  1. T1 Terry

    T1 Terry Active Member

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    My iTech leather seats are getting ratty looking and need a grey repaint and conditioning to recover the look and leather before serious cracks start forming ...... Is that paint available, or does anyone know the paint code?

    Thanks in advance

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  2. Tombukt2

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    I'm not sure you'd want to paint the seats even with vinyl flexible type paint that stuff doesn't do so well especially someone's rear ends going to be sitting in it with jeans on and well things like that just doesn't seem like that would be a thing would seem to me like you'd want to get reupholstery slip covers ones that are made to fit with the old ones off which nobody makes or someone have to make them for you I guess I don't think cat skins covers our vehicles I just unupholstered a set of generation to perforated leather seats down to the foams and steel now if I take the covers that I took off the original seats to my buddy in town he runs an upholstery shop he can make the bottom cover and the back cover with just my old ones I just undid the hog rings and slid them off problem is the material and what have you to make this upholstery will cost about $250 per seat if not a little more and that's not a positive quote because I haven't picked out material you can go really stupid with this stuff but painting the seats I don't think that would be realistic unless you like never get in the car like people just look through the windows at it or something any kind of real sitting in it and getting in and out of it I would think that paint would be coming off the whatever this material is I don't know where it's fake and or partially real. You know this stuff hasn't been real leather for a long time it's kind of made like plywood is just like an onion layers of different stuff one of those layers just happens to be some form of material legally allowed to be called leather. I'm also looking into man-made material like the tough skin that's used in the 13 Persona that I owned that's pretty durable material there's some sunbrella type material that could be reasonable it's quite a bit heavier than the similar materials used and some of the SUVs so I'm kind of on the fence about what to use and I have another perfectly good pair of leather seats in the car now so this is really not anything that has to happen anytime soon me being about 67 now it may never happen