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sarsonic

Discussion Starter · Jan 26, 2016

This is the rear seat on my 9 month old M135i. It's more visable when the weather is wet because I presume the air is damp, I presume. It's not a seat in the car that has ever been used and as you can see it is only on one panel of the seat so must have arrived with this issue. Has anyone seen anything like it before and do you know how BMW will fix it. Will they replace that panel or replace the whole back bench?
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Sonic1506

· #2 · Jan 26, 2016

I'd assume BMW would replace the whole rear back rest of the rear bench.

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Dean_g1987

· #3 · Feb 4, 2016

sarsonic said:
This is the rear seat on my 9 month old M135i. It's more visable when the weather is wet because I presume the air is damp, I presume. It's not a seat in the car that has ever been used and as you can see it is only on one panel of the seat so must have arrived with this issue. Has anyone seen anything like it before and do you know how BMW will fix it. Will they replace that panel or replace the whole back bench?
Thanks all

Evening mate, today I've also noticed mould on my rear seats.

I'm interested to know what you have done to sort it? If you've been to BMW, what are they doing about it? Do you use child seats in the rear?

I too have a 2015 LCI M135i with same colour leather.

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Dean

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Octavius

· #4 · Feb 4, 2016

That doesn't look very good at all. What's causing it :?:

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Dean_g1987

· #5 · Feb 4, 2016

Blackbmw120d said:
That doesn't look very good at all. What's causing it :?:

Not sure, the side it's happening I have a isofix base for a child's car seat. Wondering, which I haven't noticed, if it's attracting condensation.

I keep the leather clean and also use AutoGlym leather clean and protect. So not sure. Maybe a bad batch. I wasted loads of money on seal and protect with BMW, so this shouldn't be happening.

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Bavarian

· #6 · Feb 5, 2016

If the isofix seat base is made from a hard plastic - I think the condensation theory might be correct.

I can imagine that the moisture in the air will condense on a cold hard surface, which is fine as long as that surface is not in direct contact with the leather. I'd suggest not leaving a seat-base in the car all of the time.

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Dean_g1987

· #7 · Feb 5, 2016

Bavarian said:
If the isofix seat base is made from a hard plastic - I think the condensation theory might be correct.

I can imagine that the moisture in the air will condense on a cold hard surface, which is fine as long as that surface is not in direct contact with the leather. I'd suggest not leaving a seat-base in the car all of the time.

Yeah I shall clean it up and see what happens. The 'mould marks' also looks like salt marks. Maybe the leather wasn't treated correctly when it was made.

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