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Softex on a 3?

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  1. PriusC-illa

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    Can my sister in law have the softex seats installed in the 3 she just bought? The dealer told her no, they can only install leather. Is that really true?
     
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    She can buy seats for a 4 with softex, but it will be cheaper just to buy seat covers.
     
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    Why would you want soft tex? Leather is better all around. I picked cloth over the soft tex, soft tex is just fancy vinyl.
     
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    She likes that it's Eco friendly and hated the cloth.
     
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    How is it eco freindly? Its a plastic :(
     
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    It's cow friendly.
     
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    Cow friendly, ECO friendly..... same thing I guess ?????????


    John
     
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    Try sheep skin seat covers, that will solve all issues, and its cow friendly.
     
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    Clazzios can also be a choice.

    Not really eco friendly though...
     
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    "A manufacturing process with approximately 99 percent fewer volatile organic compounds (VOC) than conventional synthetic leather, and it does not include any animal-based material."

    Sounds Eco friendly to me. They couldn't find a 4 in summer rain in our area, so they sold her on the 3 and are installing heated leather seats today.

    Thanks for all the input.
     
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    Isn't it recycled bottles? Or am I thinking of the LEAF?
     
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    The leaf has real leather, at least the 2013
    SL does.
     
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    I meant the early models with the faux leather.
     
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    A nuclear reactor is made with "A manufacturing process with fewer volatile organic compounds (VOC) than conventional synthetic leather, and it does not include any animal-based material."

    Eco-friendly?
    Your call.
    The folks in Northeast Japan might have pretty strong opinions about that.
    Whether or not cows are earth friendly is an argument that I'll leave to the eco-weenies, but I think that the pleather that Toyota uses as their up-optioned seating surface is a good material. I just wouldn't pay 23K for a car that starts out life as a 19K juust to get a few hundred dollars worth of baubles and an upgraded seating surface.

    The answer to the ORIGINAL question:
    ..is probably no.
    Oh you could probably order and install seats from a 'four' but it's not going to be cheap.
    My advice:
    Seat covers. :)
    [​IMG]
     
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    She already got the leather.

    Would it make some of you happier if I said the Softex is more Eco-friendly than regular leather, rather than JUST Eco-friendly.

    Geez, now I remember why I don't do forums so much anymore.
     
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    This thread gives me the urge to get jump in the Tuscon, with leather seats, and grab a Big Mac. I can always jump in my Prii and use it as a confessional to cleanse me of all my un-eco friendly sins. :p
     
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    U really want to be eco-friendly try taking out the seats and drive on a milk crate and then you will be happy with cloth or soft tec or any material.
     
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    The question was can one get softex seats on a 3. Thanks for your help!
     
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    Milk crates are plastic... they're even worse for the environment... at least by killing a cow you are limiting the amount of methane in the air. :ROFLMAO:
     
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    One can get anything they want if you have enough money! Just live with what you bought, they are just seats!
     
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