Seat covers and new cars: WHY?

[4Vman]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

if we want to talk about things that are a waste of money : my pet peeve is headlight protectors - anybody know how fast a stone needs to be travelling to crack/break your hardened glass headlight? I can tell you its alot higher than 100 kmh and the stone has to be hurled toward your car - remember the coin off a skyscraper on mythbusters - the mass of the coin isn't great enough same with stones, that is unless you hit a wombat, but if you did that I think the headlight is the least of your worries.

As for seat covers my car has leather and it drives me around the bend keeping it clean I have considered seat covers to make cleaning easier.

That really makes no sense... the size and weight of the stone or rock will determine the damage, not just the speed of the impact.
Ive had plenty of cracked spot lights and headlights before at less than 100kph...
As for your interoir why did you pay extra to buy leather when you could have just bought cloth interior?