The leather on the VT seats is definitely "guy" leather - that is too say hard, durable and cheap.

The gray strips on my seats are definitely not leather - but I'm OK with that. The bolsters on sport seats are always the first to fail on cloth and leather seats because of all of the friction. Near as I can tell the grey strips of material on my seat bolsters is some sort of slick and durable vinyl.

The jury is still out on the "leather" material on the doors.

 

Thanks for that!! So the colour bolsters on the sides are just vinyl (so i should use vinyl dye) but the rest are real leather or leatherette (guy?)
Do you mind me where you got the information from? How did you know?

 

Hyundai says it is leather, and I don't think they would falsify that. And it does feel and smell like leather.

Those gray bolsters don't even pretend to be leather, they are clearly some sort of slick synthetic material. It doesn't take long to figure that out once you own a VT.

Don't get me wrong. I'm impressed that Hyundai took the time to engineer the VT seats to use a slick and durable material for that panel on the bolster. I've owned a lot of cars with lower seat bolsters and that is always the first thing that wears out on sport seats.

You could probably take the seats apart and expose some of that material to test your dye on.

 

The front seats are Recaros and they have leather cushions, squabs and bolsters (except for the synthetic grey stripe), with vinyl leather look-alike (leatherette) on the headrests, sides, bases and rears. Back seat the same: leather cushion and squab and vinyl the rest. It's decent qualilty imitation leather and hard to pick from the real leather.

 

The front seats ARE NOT Recaro`s. where the heck have you heard that ?

 

Thankyou StoneAxe and cbrmale!
So Mackies, what is the material of the colour bolsters on the seats?
Or is everything leather?
Should i be using vinyl spray dye then?

 

No idea, I just know there is no way these seats are recaro`s not even cheap recaros. sorry mate

 

If they were recaros Hyundai would advertise the hell out of that like other manufacturers do.