As you all know im comparing the tl and altimas....but I have a question...Yall keep saying the tl interior is nicer and soo on but....when i read in here all i hear about is how crappy the tl leather is...how it cracks and look shitty anfter a short period of time.. and how the car has constant rattles....Ive looked up nissan and have found nothing but good things about the leather and how the car holds up rattle wise..let me know

 

2004 TL w/ 30K miles:

No rattles
No foreign sounds
No noise complaints

Relative to the leather, every car I've ever owned (Saab, Acura, Mitsi, Audi, Porsche) will have the leather "wrinkle" but not "crack". My TL driver's seat has "wrinkles" where the leather is showing use but it's not a defect in the seat. Look at a baseball glove or a leather belt for comparative purposes. When you first buy either, the leather is smooth with no wrinkles. After several uses, the leather begins to "wrinkle" which some people might interpret as "cracking".

 

hi

new 07 TL Type-S here

No rattles
No foreign sounds
No noise complaints

Very happy

 

05 TL here,

No rattles, no cracking. The leather even still smells new.

 

04TL...

no leather cracking (still smells like new), no odd sounds, minimal rattling...depends on the bumps i go over...

were you on a bimmer forum when you read there was cracking in the TL leather...??

 

06 TL

Rattle, just when I thought I fixed one rattle, another one pops up.

Leather sucks big time.

 

They improved the leather for the '07 model, which is the one I have. As for rattles, only one so far (steering column), but I didn't hear it when I drove a couple of days ago.

 

Same here on my Ebony/black interior. Several very minor wrinkles only on the seat bolsters, too; the seat surfaces are pristine.

 

Black Tl with black interior. No rattles, leather still smells new but I admit it does suck especially the seats in the back leaves ugly butt prints.

 

No rattles, no cracks.....

I've heard the opposite w/ Nissan leather actually....Haven't you seen a G35 after a couple years?!

 

07 TL...1 week old...no rattles...leather is still brand new...very quiet ride

 

06 tl 6200 miles, no rattles at all, leather has some wrinkles (same as every car I've had)

 

I detail cars and 3 of my regular customers have 05/06 Altimas and when you start looking at them close the quality is way off in most the interior areas.

 

dude... if you treat ur leather properly... it will last u a life time.... go get those conditioners for leather and use them maybe once or twice a year =)..

quality wise... itz not even close... TL all the way man!

just knock on the panels.. and you will see what i mean =)

 

07 TL, 11,000 miles, 2 months old, nothing wrong (knock on wood), alotta of Rattles!!! when the 4400 watts of bass is pumpin ..haha but none when its quiet. I love this car.

 

bmehling as I told you in the PM, there are thousands of threads on everything you could ever want.

Goto problems and fixes and do a search on rattles, Ill bet there are plenty...

Im not going to allow another rattle thread here on the main page.