Reply With QuoteThat is unbelievable.
I wonder what your dealer will have to say about it.
Andrew
Stopped at Heatherbrae yesterday for a pie on the way to a farm for trail bike riding, when.......
I came out of the pie shop after about 20mins opened back door for my eldest son then walked around the other side to put the younger one in his booster seat, when ..... I opened the door and my eldest son goes Dad there is something burning, there was smoke coming from the front passenger seat.
I opened up front passenger door where I had a small bag with a plastic bag sitting on top, I thought the plastic bag was melting in the sun but nope still smoke coming from the seat.
Culprit a 1.5 L bottle of water leaning up against the seat burnt a hole right through the so called leather
The bottle acted like a magnifying glass and I was maybe minutes away from a catastrophe.
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This leaves me to wonder the quality of leather if they even are leather the seats
RoverLord
That is unbelievable.
I wonder what your dealer will have to say about it.
Andrew
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SubscriberIn the boat building game I saw two similar events. One was a trophy in the form of a crystal ball on a wooden base. It was left on a high quality gloss veneer table top inside the boat and the next day there was a perfectly scribed burn around the trophy from the sun coming through the window.
Second was the case of an inflatable rescue boat that mysteriously deflated with a burn hole. Sabotage was suspected so a new one was bought and installed and the same thing happened. Turned out it was a concave piece of customised high polished stainless steel in front of the tender used as a tie down point for the crane hook. At the perfect time of day it focused the sunlight onto the tender. Ouch!
Very glad it ended well.
Wow that's a close call...
Dealer won't have anything to do with it..
That's a perfect example of a focusing lens...
The leather is very thin - has to be to be that supple...
RoverLord
I spose the treatments to the "leather" would be pretty volatile too.Originally Posted by Tombie
Andrew
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Wouldn't help...
Same for Sunglasses etc left on Dash or Console.. I've seen them do damage to those surfaces from focusing light.
I thought leather wasn't supposed to burn
It certainly does.. the leather treatments help..
The heat point of focused sunlight is very bloody high... even a cigarette will burn a leather seat...
And if left focused on one spot will certainly do damage.
Swaggie
Reminds me of the magnifying glass and newspaper school trick.
Would light the paper easily.
AT RESTImagine what could have happened if there was say a food paper bag or a newspaper there and the bottle caused that to ignite, it probably would have gone up in flames easier than the leather.
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