741hcr
Member Since: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Usually in front of the PC
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Has anybody got any experience of combining dirty horse splatted clothes with Alpaca leather? As a family of five riding horses, we get back in the car wet, muddy, covered in horse smelly stuff, etc. I would like to order a D3 with Alpaca but does it just turn muddy brown or will it be ok? I don't want to use seat covers.
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 28th May 2007 7:10 pm |
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AndrewS
Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
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Don't know about horse  . All I know is raw human sewage, mud and grease all wash off  In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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| 28th May 2007 7:32 pm |
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90BHP
Member Since: 18 Oct 2006
Location: Half way along the road on the right
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I do use the emergency Land Rover covers when my daughter is particularly unpleasantly covered in horse !!
But as most people say the leather does seem fairly forgiving. "To finish first, one first has to finish ...."
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| 28th May 2007 9:08 pm |
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zebadee
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: The Magic Roundabout
Posts: 1392
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While the leather is forgiving & would seem to wipe clean fairly well, how do the beige door panels & the beige areas on the dash clean up after being “mucked up†??
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| 29th May 2007 7:49 am |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
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You'll have no problems, just watch jeans as they can stain DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 29th May 2007 7:30 pm |
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AndyJWB
Member Since: 16 Apr 2006
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 176
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Alpaca will be fine, the horse will blend in nicely  Not a D3 owner 
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| 29th May 2007 8:23 pm |
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Dave
Member Since: 08 Mar 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
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Are there no vets in Shropshire? Your horses need looking at. I am no horse spotter but I know that samples that I have happened by  have never remotely resembled Alpaca, more Allegro brown ISTR  Captain Nick Medhurst would ask:
"What is the first rule when overlanding?"
I would Reply:
"Duratrac"
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| 29th May 2007 9:17 pm |
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WOODY179
Member Since: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Chesterfield
Posts: 3654
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In the past I have had 2 D2's with Alpaca leather and never had a problem with stains, smells or keeping the interior looking as new, although I only had one horse to look after - can't imagine 5! You will be okay as long as you clean the leather regulary, biggest problem you will have with the Alpaca is jeans as the dye tends to discolour the seats (I used Autoglym leather cleaner and it always brought them up as new). 1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
1999 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Rioja Red, sold
2002 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Buckingham Blue, sold
2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue, sold
2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Zambezi Silver, sold
2011 Discovery 4 SDV6 HSE Nara Bronze, sold
2016 Volvo XC60 D5 AWD Lux Nav Twilight Bronze, sold
2020 Range Rover Evoque P250 First Edition, Nolita grey, sold
2023 Range Rover Evoque P300e Autobiography, Carpathian grey
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| 29th May 2007 9:28 pm |
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AndyJWB
Member Since: 16 Apr 2006
Location: Shropshire
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Dave wrote:Are there no vets in Shropshire? Your horses need looking at. I am no horse spotter but I know that samples that I have happened by have never remotely resembled Alpaca, more Allegro brown ISTR
Alpaca resembles a lot more than tundra or ebony however Not a D3 owner
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| 29th May 2007 9:41 pm |
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