mogi68

I am looking to buy this used GS and this photo with the passenger seat in the background stuck out to me. Is this passenger seat damaged? I'm not so concerned about the wrinkles on the fabric but it looks like it's squished in on the sides where a person's legs would be. Has anyone else experienced this on their GS? I don't want to have to replace a seat on a car that's less than 5 years old.

I live a few hours away from this vehicle so I can't just go over and take a look at it

IcyBishop

That does look odd. Either something was pressed hard against it prior to the pictures, or it's deformed from it being pressed against something for a long time.
Getting a passenger seat from a yard isn't that difficult or expensive - you'd just need the inner foam and maybe the skin.

If the car is near Cleveland I could go look at the seat

mogi68

Found a different shot



The car looks good otherwise and is a cool color (Nightfall Mica)

byungkuk

unless it's ripped personally i wouldn't care... talk to the dealership and see what they say

jsch222

the way it is wrinkled i'd suspect it's been repaired or at some point the leather was removed for some reason. wouldn't be a deal break, but i'd examine closely.

AJLex19

Like @IcyBishop said, it looks like it was pressed up against something - as if they moved the seat forward and had a suitcase pressed against the leather for a while creating the deformation.

A rare refreshed lux pkg too - so a nice find. Definitely reach out to the dealership as mentioned by @jsch222 - my dealership was willing to fix seat discoloration before I took delivery (they send it out to a local leather repair guy).

GrandSedanFan

iTrader: (1)

It looks like the seat cover was removed and reinstalled/replaced slightly askew. It's happened to me before, but I was able to massage it back into place.

703

Looks bad. For someone who is OCD which stuff like that, I wouldn’t be able to live with it.

jgscott

iTrader: (1)

Something was done to that seat. That would drive me crazy. I could not live with it either.

Maybe a replace of Leather in that part and Bad stich job from who did it.

ItzFilyO

I would lose sleep over that but I'm OCD Max +.

I would look for another one.

websurfer

Looks like it was replaced or repaired with so and so workmanship. If you are OCD or not happy with the quality, just look for another vehicle. It will bother you to either get it repaired again, looks like the seat cover.

How's the vehicle condition? Did you pull the VIN # from the Lexus website on the maintenance (drivers.lexus.com)?