i ahve real bad issues with the butt printed on my TL..all my seats look like wringles all over it..like BUTTS..this this s issue ??can this be coved by warranty??i htink i saw somthing about this but i cant find it..can someone tell me if this can be covered under warranty and any good dealers in NORTH NJ..i live in fairview NJ.

 

WHT04TL....yes some dealers will cover buttprints under warranty. If you push the dealer, they also might switch out the covers with the 05 style to eliminate the problem in the future. I've got the same issues with my '04TL, and my local dealer has agreed to swap my seats with the '05 style covers. I've been putting off getting it done over the winter, but they ordered the covers last week, and I will be getting them changed as soon as I can get the car to the dealer for a few days. It's a big job and I believe they have to remove both seats to do the change so I'm a little paranoid about how it's going to come out. Others have had problems with scraches during the change, but some people have had the job done and said it's perfect...we'll see with my car. I'll post my results as soon as I get the job completed.

 

always interesting when its a new person bring up all the old topics. please use the search button

acura obviously acknowledged the problem since they made the seats different in the 05. the problem usually occurs with TL drivers with skinny butts. like me. im about 6'5" and weigh 150. the butt prints on my '04 seats are bad

you can try to take it to a dealer, but good luck in gettin em replaced

and if you do get em replaced... its still gonab the same problem....

AND do you want leather seats that arent from factory? they could come out a slightly different shade of color

 

thanks man..the search dont work for me..can someone tell me why??i get canot find text blah blah...and i called acura dealer but they didnt really seem to care..i wil lgo in and talk person to person and bi tch hard...

 

dude, my car is 05 and still get butt prints! not as bad as the 04 though

what should i do? get it changed with the 06? lol

 

dont you know ? G4 TL was developed under the code name "Projekto Butto-Printo"

 

or is it that all 3rd GEN people have A$$ problems??or sitting problemm..the way they sit...my dealer said it might be the WAY U DRIVE..what the fuk is that..WOW..im so pissed..i gotta go walk in tommrow..

 

tell the dealer to go screw himself, cause if he doesnt have butt prints, then hes a fat ass or hes driving holding himself up pushing against the back of the seat only

 

Ahem..... I'm 6' 2" and 185 and I don't have a major butt print problem. If I have been in the car for an hour or so, the leather will curve down for a while when I first get out. After a while, it goes back the way it was. It's skin! It stretches and shrinks.

That said, it is thirsty skin. Over the course of a year, I have used almost a full bottle of Zaino "Leather in a Bottle". I put it on immediately after I picked up my car and the leather drank it up. I reapply about once every 6-8 weeks. It keeps the leather soft and pliable and seems to prevent wrinkles and butt prints to a great extent.

TL's have a higher grade of soft leather than some other cars that use the course, bumpy pig-skin looking stuff. Many luxury cars offer the TL style leather only as an option over their standard fare.

For the soft, perforated, glove leather, we pay a price. It is more flexible and conforms to the shape of what is sitting on it. That is comfortable. If the leather is conditioned and the weather is warm, it should go back to shape after a while.

I remember watching a recent Corbin Saddle commercial on the speed channel. Mr. Corbin was explaining how they make their luxury after-market motorcycle saddles. He said that they use a dense-cell foam and a soft pliable leather so that it will take the shape of a person's butt and conform to it.

For them, it is a selling point (butt prints), not a source of complaints.
So, IMHO, this is another compromise between comfort and esthetics. Form follows function.

-XP

 

compared to me? a huge percent of the population. 6'5" and 150

you using your "leather in a bottle" probably helps

 

what color TL do you have? i live in cliffside