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RM travelers · 02-26-2022, 03:15 PM

Has any one used Shop4Seats to replace their MH furniture? We ordered a set, driver & passenger seats, reclining couch, & dinette set with ultimate leather for our 2016 Fleetwood Bounder. Origenal bonded leather furniture started flaking off less than 3 yrs., now totally gone. Has anyone used this ultimate leather & how does it wear?

Jim_HiTek · 02-26-2022, 04:32 PM

I have 'leather' in my RV and the manufacturer can only call it that when it's true. And It's now 20 years old and in perfect condition. Same is true of your run of the mill furniture manufacturer. If it's not called 'Leather' full stop, it's not. That's the law.

If what you bought is named 'Ultra Leather', 'Ultimate Leather', 'Pleather' or any of the other 10's of fake leather names they've come up with, then it is vinyl. If your last set of furniture started flaking within 3 years, given your circumstances (where you live, where you camp, how the furniture is used, number of users, etc.) then the new set will likely start flaking soon too.

There are some methods to slow that flaking so you should google that sort of thing and follow the manufacturers recommendations.

lllkrob · 02-26-2022, 09:05 PM

We installed a double recliner sofa from Shop 4 Seats 5 years ago in the ultimate leather. It looks just as good today as it did when it was installed. We have cleaned it thoroughly several times and found no signs of wear.

TheCatsRV · 02-26-2022, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by lllkrob

We installed a double recliner sofa from Shop 4 Seats 5 years ago in the ultimate leather. It looks just as good today as it did when it was installed. We have cleaned it thoroughly several times and found no signs of wear.

Just wondering, are the seats secured to the floor, or are the seatbelts there for regulatory purposes?

RM travelers · 02-27-2022, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by lllkrob

We installed a double recliner sofa from Shop 4 Seats 5 years ago in the ultimate leather. It looks just as good today as it did when it was installed. We have cleaned it thoroughly several times and found no signs of wear.

Your seats look like what we ordered. Tks for the info.

lllkrob · 02-27-2022, 02:03 PM

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Just wondering, are the seats secured to the floor, or are the seatbelts there for regulatory purposes?

The recliner sofa is secured by U brackets over the seat frames and screwed to the slide floor. The seat belts are Tiffin, original to the coach, where the old hid-a-bed sofa was installed and fit perfectly in the new recliners.

TheCatsRV · 02-27-2022, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by lllkrob

The recliner sofa is secured by U brackets over the seat frames and screwed to the slide floor. The seat belts are Tiffin, original to the coach, where the old hid-a-bed sofa was installed and fit perfectly in the new recliners.

Thanks. Were the brackets supplied or did you reuse the old ones? Were the frames of the new happily in the same place as the old so no new holes needed to be drilled? If so, by coincidence or by design?

lllkrob · 02-28-2022, 11:30 AM

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Thanks. Were the brackets supplied or did you reuse the old ones? Were the frames of the new happily in the same place as the old so no new holes needed to be drilled? If so, by coincidence or by design?

Nothing was supplied, and nothing was used from the old sofa, totally different frame construction. The brackets were bought at Lowes in the electrical supply department, used for holding electrical piping to walls and such. They were secured by 1.25" wood screws driven directly into the slide floor plywood with a 90 degree pneumatic angle drill. Special wood block "legs" were made to support the front seat frames that overhung the slide floor and attached to the seat frames.