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I was getting into my Vette late last night as I was leaving work, and I was climbing in rather awkwardly as I was carrying my laptop bag. I ended up sliding my arse across the side bolster of the seat as I got in and felt something catch and tear.
It wasn't a very nice sound to hear either.
Turns out my new-ish jeans (subsequently thrown out with contempt) had studs that were hexagonal rather than round, and worse yet one of the studs -- on the left back pocket, was poking out a bit and with an extremely sharp angled point. It was that sharpened point that caught on the seat and gave it a nice long scratch.
About 8 centimeters long, 2mm wide and maybe 0.5mm deep. Not cool, not cool at all. These are nice competition seats, too.
The car is leased. :-/
I am going to call my insurance company tomorrow to see if this is an incident they might cover with comprehensive. I am not sure such damage can be repaired -- in fact I am almost sure that to make it "good as new" it would indeed need to be new, i.e. replaced, and that does not sound like something cheap. I might have a leather/upholstery repair specialist take a look at it next week as well, but I'm not very optimistic about the options.
What a bummer, ha! Seriously, of all the stupid things that can happen, this one just seems so random. Super minor in terms of big picture but still, the first one always stings. Kinda wish the jeans cut me instead cause that would probably hurt a little less
It wasn't a very nice sound to hear either.
Turns out my new-ish jeans (subsequently thrown out with contempt) had studs that were hexagonal rather than round, and worse yet one of the studs -- on the left back pocket, was poking out a bit and with an extremely sharp angled point. It was that sharpened point that caught on the seat and gave it a nice long scratch.
About 8 centimeters long, 2mm wide and maybe 0.5mm deep. Not cool, not cool at all. These are nice competition seats, too.
The car is leased. :-/
I am going to call my insurance company tomorrow to see if this is an incident they might cover with comprehensive. I am not sure such damage can be repaired -- in fact I am almost sure that to make it "good as new" it would indeed need to be new, i.e. replaced, and that does not sound like something cheap. I might have a leather/upholstery repair specialist take a look at it next week as well, but I'm not very optimistic about the options.
What a bummer, ha! Seriously, of all the stupid things that can happen, this one just seems so random. Super minor in terms of big picture but still, the first one always stings. Kinda wish the jeans cut me instead cause that would probably hurt a little less
