[prabhuferrari]

Originally Posted by souravc

My friend , what fit and finish !!!!!! Total drool worthy pictures . Darn, change to stanley is added to my mission of changing tyres

I think some of you must take a look at the black leather that anilkalvani has got on his Vento AT, in case you don't like beige. Not sure how to post thread link from iPad.

[plain.vanilla]

Originally Posted by bala80

I have 3M tints on my car with 20% visibility.

Doesn't that pose a problem during night time driving, specially with the windshield?

[bala80]

Nope, I dont have any film on my windshield, will never go for one either. Only on the side windows and rear. I would have ideally liked atleast 30% visibility film but then it wasnt available when I was shopping around. Settled for 20% and I dont have any issues with the visibility at night.

Originally Posted by plain.vanilla

Doesn't that pose a problem during night time driving, specially with the windshield?

[souravc]

Originally Posted by bala80

Nope, I dont have any film on my windshield, will never go for one either. Only on the side windows and rear. I would have ideally liked atleast 30% visibility film but then it wasnt available when I was shopping around. Settled for 20% and I dont have any issues with the visibility at night.

I use the ORVMs a lot so I settled for more transparency on the sides .

As per Indian motor vehicle rules, a car's windscreen and rear glass should have 70 per cent transparency , whereas the window panes should have 50 per cent light reflectance max.Wouldn't your tints cause any problem in Chennai ?

[bala80]

I would have ideally preferred 30-40% but then I didnt have an option when I was shopping around. I use the ORVMs all the times too and there are no issues due to this

It is definitely not as per the regulations in CMVR, but since chennai is hot pretty much through out the year, most cars use dark tints. I have never seen any vehicle being fined for using dark tints here.

Originally Posted by souravc

I use the ORVMs a lot so I settled for more transparency on the sides .

As per Indian motor vehicle rules, a car's windscreen and rear glass should have 70 per cent transparency , whereas the window panes should have 50 per cent light reflectance max.Wouldn't your tints cause any problem in Chennai ?

[aks_karthik]

Originally Posted by bala80

Thank you plain.vanilla. I have 3M tints on my car with 20% visibility. Works pretty well IMO.

Actually, I need to give credit to the member classic86 for this design in stanley. The only difference between his and mine is that, my seats are a shade darker in colour matching with the beige on the door pad. Take a look at the following thread for much better pictures of the same design.

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/test-d...-highline.html

Following is the cost break-up

Seats - 31.5k
Steering Grip - 2.5k
Labour - 2k

Where did you do this job? is it from the VW dealer itself or any outside people?
Heard, Stanley, kathar Nawaz Khan road Boutique is closed before some months.
what is the quality of the Leather used?
Seems the price is increasing alot. i have enquired before some 6 months for my Linea and the price quoted for me is 27K with Door trims in satin (.9 mm) leather.

[bala80]

I did this through Jewajee car decors in annanagar. Yes, the stanley boutique is closed now and they dont undertake any orders directly. Apart from Jewajee, Haute car zone is the other dealer for stanley and their prices were atleast 5k more than what I got in Jewajee.

Quality of leather is satin - full leather. In the same grade touch leather was quoted around 25k for me. They have another grade of leather called classic, which is less than satin in terms of thickness and little less in terms of price.

But yes, prices have definitely gone up. When i originally enquired I was quoted 30k for the seats and by the time I decided to go for it, it shot up by 1.5K!

Originally Posted by aks_karthik

Where did you do this job? is it from the VW dealer itself or any outside people?
Heard, Stanley, kathar Nawaz Khan road Boutique is closed before some months.
what is the quality of the Leather used?
Seems the price is increasing alot. i have enquired before some 6 months for my Linea and the price quoted for me is 27K with Door trims in satin (.9 mm) leather.

[bharatbs]

Originally Posted by bala80

As promised some pictures of stanley leather seats and the steering grip.

Since you have changed from fabric to leather seats, have you noticed any difference in temperature while sitting on the leather seats?

I have notcied that leather seats retain more heat then regular fabric seats, which means you need to use the A/C continiously.

I have Stanley Classic leather in my car.

[bala80]

Absolutely, no second thoughts about leather retaining more heat than fabric, But its not an issue for me since I always drive with A/C on. I have a closed parking at home and hence that is also an non-issue.

Small trade-off in my case for the other positives of leather over fabric.

Originally Posted by bharatbs

Since you have changed from fabric to leather seats, have you noticed any difference in temperature while sitting on the leather seats?

I have notcied that leather seats retain more heat then regular fabric seats, which means you need to use the A/C continiously.

I have Stanley Classic leather in my car.

[bala80]

Did a couple of highway runs over the past week as a result of which the ODO shows 3000 kms up now. This car is a dream to drive on the highways and my comfortable cruising speed has gone upto 100 kmph with this car. It used to be 80 kmph with my scorp and swift earlier. It feels very relaxed and composed at this range and I'm anyways not too comfortable pushing anything over 120 kmph. I got an FE of 23.1 kmpl on the MID with average speed between 70-80 kmph and 21.1 kmpl during the return trip with speed range of 90-100 kmph.

Driving this car on the highways is pretty addictive indeed. I'm a very finicky kind of person, but then there is nothing much to complain about except some minor annoyances which were detailed before. So far so good and I'm happy for the decision to go for this car.

[Ricky_63]

The VENTO TDI can overtake without any downshifts, and how !! The torque is great & the nudge on the accelerator gives a response unparalleled by many a car........


Cheers

[nileshch]

Originally Posted by bala80

As promised some pictures of stanley leather seats and the steering grip.

Awesome seat covers there. Love the stitches, the fit and finish. Excellent! Will budget for a Stanley when I get bored of my current covers!

[bala80]

One thing I forgot to mention - leather seats get better with time and usage. What I mean by that is, they get more snug and wrinkles disappear as we start using them more and more. I now feel the fit and finish looks much better compared to the time of installation. I also heard from the stanley guy that usage of A/C plays a role in this, however I dont know how far it is true.

The feel good factor is definitely there though.

Originally Posted by nileshch

Awesome seat covers there. Love the stitches, the fit and finish. Excellent! Will budget for a Stanley when I get bored of my current covers!

[vb-saan]

Originally Posted by bala80

One thing I forgot to mention - leather seats get better with time and usage. What I mean by that is, they get more snug and wrinkles disappear as we start using them more and more. I now feel the fit and finish looks much better compared to the time of installation. I also heard from the stanley guy that usage of A/C plays a role in this, however I dont know how far it is true.

The feel good factor is definitely there though.

Thats true, good leather looks better with usage, and gets much softer as well.
What's the role of A/C in making the leather better? Just curious to know

Bala, your Stanley seats are seat covers, or they removed the original fabric and stitched the leather to the seats?

[bala80]

Honestly, I dont know either! He was mentioning to me the leather will get more soft/seasoned with usage of A/C too and wrinkles will disappear.

They completely removed the fabric and stitched leather to the seats. They gave me back the original fabric, dont know what I can do with it though

Originally Posted by vb-san

What's the role of A/C in making the leather better? Just curious to know

Bala, your Stanley seats are seat covers, or they removed the original fabric and stitched the leather to the seats?