Interior leather colour

[VK3GJM]

Hi all,

I am about to place a factory build order for a new MY13 disco 4 HSE. I have been pondering on the leather colour.

I am keen to read people's view on leather colour preference. The dealer suggested stay away from Ebony (black) as this is much hotter in summer and when traveling north. Black tends to look and keep cleaner than lighter colours.

When traveling the high country and during wet conditions sometimes the interior gets quite dirty and a lighter colour tends to stain easy.

My Touareg has light Grey and wears well when clean or dirty and stays cool during summer.

I always use a window sun shade, therefore the interior never gets direct sun light during the summer.

Also the Touareg had a sun roof, during summer a slight opening of the sun roof kept the interior to a very acceptable level. Disco4 do not have a option for a front sun roof.

Regards

Gerald.

[shining]

Plenty of arguments both ways. I didn't have a choice (pre-loved - insert permagrin) I have black. Has stood up well to mud and car-sickness. I don't (won't) carry clawed creatures in to D3. It also looks good with stornoway grey.

[101RRS]

I have Aspen interior in my RRS - this means seats are an olive colour as are lower door trims and dash top. Everything else including lower dash, upper door trims and centre console is cream.

The green is really good but the cream is really bad - so if I were you I would stay away from black (when the colour cracks it is really obvious) and cream.

A tone about as dark as my olive would be best - grey, blue, tan - something like that.

[MR LR]

Problem is there arent many options with a D4, basically black, almond or white (yuck), dad's work car has almond, my grandfathers own car has ebony, i like both and both have their good points, the 3.0 is white and has tint so the seast don't heat up anyway.

[harlie]

My L322 Rangie has dark grey (nearly black) leather, easy to keep clean, still looks new, but it does get hot in the sun.

Wife's VW has cream leather, shows every mark and spot, has not worn very well - the front seats now look significantly older than the rest of the car. The cream leather still gets hot in the sun. not as hot, but still bloody hot....

Both cars are tinted. I would never have a light colour again, I agree they look smart but...

[CaverD3]

Never had a problem with my black interior, ordered the same on D4. Much easier to maintain and when I managed to remove the dye by spilling some bleach on a seat it was easy to recolour myself, trouble is that seat now looks better than the others.

I think window tint will have more of an effect than colour.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I've always hated black since my suffix H SIIa had black seats, so chose the almond in my D4. After 4 months ownership I'm still happy with the Almond. After all it's almost the same colour of the original 1970 Range Rover trim and that stood up well.

It seems that the Evoque has a grey trim option so they may be going to have it in the next re-style of the D4.

[MR LR]

Can't believe they got rid of the grey, it was the best colour, didn't get hot, didn't show marks, classy. Perfect, ohwell its just like them not being able to have 18inch wheels on an SDV6 and all the other idiosyncrasies, but we all still love them haha

[Graeme]

My almond driver's seat gets a bit grubby from farm use but nothing a good clean doesn't fix. Dust blends well with the rest of the interior too.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Does anyone make D4 seat covers in almond that can be used for trips off road?