Thread: Leather Seat Colour

Not sure, but I'm pretty sure when I bought mine that the dealer said that they send some off on the back of a truck to get the seats reupholstered in leather. If it doesn't fit the catalogue, it may have had the seats redone away from the factory. I guess seat heating would be the telltale.

Looks like manual seats, so possibly an aftermarket job, same as mine

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I guess seat heating would be the telltale.

What do you mean? If it has the wiring for the seat heating it's genuine? What would the seat heating look like, yellow cord/wires?

Regards
Andrew

Originally Posted by Andrew D

What do you mean? If it has the wiring for the seat heating it's genuine? What would the seat heating look like, yellow cord/wires?

Regards
Andrew

What Slunnie means is that (at least to my knowledge) in Australian vehicles, you either got manual cloth trim or electric heated leather.
All electric seats have the capacity for heated seats, some don't have it connected.
So if you've got manual leather seats, chances are they're an aftermarket re-trim.

Looking at the pics, even if it was aftermarket, the leather is an almost exact match to the plastic trim so I'd say it is Alpaca. The earlier beige in the 2002 models was a darker shade.

Cheers

Steve

Attached is a sample of light stone biege. Hence the reason I believe this is the colour

HCA000220SMK | FRONT SEAT BASE COVR LTHR BEIGE DIS2 | Land Rover | Discovery 2 - 1999 to 2004 | Britcar (UK) Ltd

Regards
Andrew

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

What Slunnie means is that (at least to my knowledge) in Australian vehicles, you either got manual cloth trim or electric heated leather.
All electric seats have the capacity for heated seats, some don't have it connected.
So if you've got manual leather seats, chances are they're an aftermarket re-trim.

Slunnie, Disco Muppet,
Australia did get Manual Leather seats in the D2a series ONLY,(D2a 03MY to end 04MY-nearly all the run out vehicle came with Leather Manual seats-just to get rid of what was left at Solihul.(D2 from 99MY to end 02MYElectric Only in the ES)
The City pack was the vehicle with rear park sensors, 18"s etc etc as the Country pack got Gen LR seat covers on cloth seats & that Sat Nav unit that clipped to the A pillar.
The Manual leather seats do not have the elements fitted & the vehicle will not have the wiring to the centre console either. (As they were 98% 5 seaters)
The colour options were Tundra, Alpaca Beige, Ebony & Very Limited numbers of Lightstone.
HTH Cheers

I have put the question to Land Rover Australia.

Will be interesting to see what they come back with.

I had a quick look under my seats the other day and the are two electrical connections (neither connected). One runs back to the centre console, the other in the front centre of the seat. (Might be just be terminals to nothing)

HTH, That's what I was thinking and similar has been put to LRA. Will be interesting if anyone at LRA can recall though (unless you are answering the email).

Regards
Andrew