Especially if you own "leather" seats like I do... The other day I folded one of the back seats down to fit some items in the car. Done it a few times, never thought anything of it really. This morning I went to put the seat back up and noticed the dam seat belt clip got caught in-between the seat standing straight up digging straight into the seat. Oh my god when I saw that I was so P!$$#d!! It left a reaaally bad indent on the seat bottom and back. It's been 4 or 5 hours since I found it this and it's not as indented, but I'm sure the indent will be permanent at this point. Wth I didn't do anything wrong per say, and now I have a permanent indent on my seat from the seat belt clip. Joy. Funny thing is I'm usually very quick to put the seats back up in fear of leaving any kind of impression on the seats from from even just resting on each other. The one time I leave it down for more than a day there's a clip trying to poke through the dam seat. Sucks! I guess time will tell how bad it stays. Next trip to the dealer for service I will point it out and see if they have suggestions.
I unthread the shoulder belts from the guides on the seatbacks before folding. This keeps the outside belts clear of the folding seat. Was your problem caused by the center seatbelt?
I had this happen on my previous Prius and it did fully recover but I can't remember how long it took
Yeah I thought of that, but it's easy to imaging making the situation MUCH worse than better. It's been a full day now, and I have to say I'm impressed with how well it's recovered. It's 95% back to normal. Time will tell if it looks and feels 100%, but so far I'm not as concerned. The original impression was so bad I didn't think it would ever recover nearly as much as it did.
Is your Softex or leather? As Softex debut was in 2012. I notice my Softex is quite elastic.. much more so than leather.
Interesting. I'm often putting my rear seats down (& often leave them there). I'll have to watch for this.
When you say "seat belt clip" are you talking about the part that fastens into the buckle, or the part that holds the belt in place against the seat? I was looking at my back seat, I see how the former could happen, but not the latter?
The point was anything remotely pointy can dig into the seats. When its for an extended prriod, it maybe permanent. Belt or buckles angled can do like though more likely the belt. Car seats as well thus all the different projectors they sell.
Is the mark in a place that your body would touch if you sat in the seat ?? 10 minutes of your weight and body heat may give 100% recovery.
looked at it last night and it looks like it's just about 100% back to normal. I am amazed. Go softex!
I need to look at my rear driver's side as well, I had the exact same thing happen when I was picking up some stuff at Home Depot. I was pissed as well that such a big dent was in my seat and no one had ever sat in that seat before. I just haven't bothered to look at it again because I didn't want to be pissed again, it hopefully has restored itself. I will have to look after work now and report back how well it restored itself.
I used to do this, on my first Prius. But when returning the seats to the upright position, sometimes I'd forget to hold the belt away from the latch mechanism, allowing the belt to get caught and chewed up. Other people always forgot, chewing up the belt even more. So on the new Prius, the belts remain in the guides. The cloth seats recover from buckle indents just fine.
My buckle indent is gone from my seat, so it did recover and it did look pretty bad when I first lifted the seat back up.
