SLT Grey Interior

[mwilson]

SLT Grey Interior Stains Too Easy

Is anyone besides me stunned at how easy the grey seats stain??? I had two stains already showing at 100 miles on the drivers seat and I figured out that it was from rain because I watched the third stain happen when water dripped off of the roof with the drivers door open. I had a mosquito bite me on the back when I was driving so I reached back and squashed it and now I have a blood stain that will not come out. What a pain. They seats are way more comfortable than the 2nd gen but they should offer a dark color. I can't imagine what it would look like if I wasn't careful. I wish I had Scotchguard or something put on when I bought it. :{

 

[RBollengier]

Mine came with the dealer added weather guard and it didn't do anything. The rain stained it as well as a sausage biscuit. I haven't tried to get them out yet. I liked the '05 darker interior better. I do love the Inferno Red, good choice. I think it would have been nice with the tan interior too.

 

[mwilson]

I think the trick is going to be this *Wet the whole darn seat and then it will be a uniform color again*. I am about ready to try that with the rinse-n-vac.

Looking back on it, the Khaki might have been a better choice.

 

[Cummins Cowboy]

I want to talk to the guy who thought the cloth seats in the 06 models where the way to go, I have the gray, and I think the seats look like they came out of the base ST model, my wife also agrees, They look cheap. I also hate the floor console that came with my auto truck, its got wimpy wanna be cup holders on the floor, its also got little compartments that collect debris, I just wanted carpet on the hump in the middle, it pretty much makes the center seat useless. as well as not having the fold down cup holder like last years truck had. its the same thing the manuals come with, you can lift the little cover and see where the shifter could come through. prolly just dodge being cheap. There is also even a hole where the fold down cup holder latch would normally be. The seats do show stains more than most, but I am a carpet and upholstery cleaner by trade, and most of the spots and spills should clean out, just by the nature of the material the seats are made of which is synthetic fibers

 

[BGott]

Would Scotchgard work on this material? My '98. 5 came with Scotchgard from the factory, or the dealer, I remember getting a pamphlet from someone, and seemed to do a decent job on repelling stains.

 

[Cummins Cowboy]

yes scotchgard will help, If you have to do it, just buy the cans at walmart and do it yourself to save money. They only problem is scotchgard will really not protect you against the things that will leave perminent stains such as coolaid and pet stains and a few others

 

[mwilson]

My buddy calls it a "Grey Canvas" . He's a Ford lover so you gotta expect comments like that.

It does appear to be a tough material so I think it will wear well. I am having a hard time keeping the crap out of the floor console as well, nothing but a dust trap. In the Mega Cabs it covers the ductwork for the rear heat and air so can't take it out. I had it all apart already to see if I could get rid of it. They still have some models this year with the flip down cupholder so if you have an automatic 06 it can be refitted so that you would have a "Real Man's Cupholder". I may put that in mine at a later date. The trouble with that is I put my brake control and satellite radio into that space and will have to relocate all that junk.

 

[Cummins Cowboy]

My buddy calls it a "Grey Canvas" . He's a Ford lover so you gotta expect comments like that.

It does appear to be a tough material so I think it will wear well. I am having a hard time keeping the crap out of the floor console as well, nothing but a dust trap. In the Mega Cabs it covers the ductwork for the rear heat and air so can't take it out. I had it all apart already to see if I could get rid of it. They still have some models this year with the flip down cupholder so if you have an automatic 06 it can be refitted so that you would have a "Real Man's Cupholder". I may put that in mine at a later date. The trouble with that is I put my brake control and satellite radio into that space and will have to relocate all that junk.

How do you refit with the way it should be?? I have an '06 quad, If you look inside the stupid unit, there is a cut out in the carpet for a shifter, All they did is take this thing from the 6 speed trucks and put a cubby hole over where the shifter boot fits. So in order to go with the fold down setup and carpet over the center hump, i would have to change out the entire front carpet

 

[mwilson]

I was just going to leave the floor stuff in it. It looked to me like the fold down cup holder could be added by only removing the panel at base of center dash. Figured with cup holder down I couldn't see the dirty, dusty floor console. Maybe you could mount something over the shifter cut out to hide it if you removed the floor console. If I didn't have the darn ductwork under there to contend with, that whole floor setup would be just a bad memory.

 

[Cummins Cowboy]

what is funny is there is really no rhyme or reason as to which trucks have the floor console and which ones have just carpet on the hump and fold down cupholder. I looked at quite a few trucks that had the electronic transfer case and they still had the dumb floor console. I did see a couple of the TRX4 trucks that had the cup holders and carpet on the floor. my solution was to just order a genos cup smoothie, so I have real cup holders now, Although the 3rd gen smoothie doesn't work out as good as it did in my '02

 

[mwilson]

I looked hard at 06 2500's for two months all over the state before I bought mine and noticed the same thing. It could go either way with the quadcabs, didn't matter if they had premium or regular cloth, 40-20-40 seats or buckets with console, electric transfer case shift or not. Dealers could not tell me why either because I asked the question many times. Never have got a good answer.

 

[mlewis73]

Yep... mine came stained from the factory. Headliner too... IT had a greasy hand print on it.



Everything came out.



Seat covers going on as soon as I can afford 'em.





I'm a tan interior guy by preference, but wasn't impressed with the tan Dodge is using this year. It just looks... DIRTY. Something's not right about it, and I couldn't bring myself to order it on my truck. Got gray... will learn to like it.





Mike

 

[Mawgie]

I have a new (2500 miles) '06 Quad Cab SLT with the grey cloth, and am equally unimpressed. On the first night, I had the truck in the driveway, I left the rear windows cracked 3 inches, and it rained. When the resulting water on the rear seat bolsters dried, it left harsh rings that looked like rust/dirty water.



I have since installed an expensive, but good, set of seatcovers from www.marathonseatcovers.com. A $465. 00 fix.



The cloth seats are comfortable, and seem fairly durable, but stain resistant they are absolutely not.



Regards-Mawgie

 

[mwilson]

I can not imagine that the design team that tested fabrics for those trucks did not check for water staining! It is going to be a real B**** this winter when snow falls onto the seat when you open the door. The thing I have to do now is wet a whole section of fabric to get a uniform stain, then see if more water makes a new stain. Maybe it wont. Maybe Maine Acid Rain is different than German rain????

 

[Cummins Cowboy]

for water stains, take a spray bottle and mix it 50-50 with white vineagar and water, Spritz this on the seat. Lightly buff with a clean terry cloth, Then let it dry on its own, This should remove the yellowing and browning on the seats

 

[Nine Ball]

Gotta admit I liked my black Laramie interior on the '04. 5 much better than the two LIGHT color options for the '06. I went with the Khaki color this time, as it seemed a little darker than the gray, and should hide dirt a little better. I'll end up getting custom leather from Autoleathers.com most likely, this cloth material kinda sucks.



Tony

 

[JMalone]

I am unimpressed with my seats as well. My last two rigs had tan leather so I knew that it would be a challenge to get used to the cloth -- but to get a CTD I was willing to make the sacrific!!



I took the truck to get the windows tinted a couple days after I bought it. My stepson wanted to drive it that afternoon, so once we got on the dirt road I let him drive to the house. When I traded places with him there were three odd spots on the seat. I'm assuming from the dude doing the tint spilled something (it wasn't back there the evening I picked it up -- I rode back there while my friends drove it).



I have scrubbed on these three spots five or six times. What's nice is like stated before, the cleaner has now made a darker circle around the spots. They've faded, but they're still there. I'm gonna try to get the water/vinager mixture mentioned by Cummins Cowboy...



Once I get the cosmetic stuff on the outside done, the muffler and intake, I'm getting leather put in it!!!!!

 

[wcjp]

I also immediately stained my 06' seats with an accidental soda spill. Steam cleaner lifted the stain no problem. Soon after I installed Geno's seat cover's. Now I just wash them. In my job I occasionally get dirty. The guy I commute with can also get dirty. No worries with the seat covers.