Simple Upgrade: Refit Your Pickup With Leather Seats - PickupTrucks.com
I don't think I'd go this route on a new truck, but it'd be worth considering on a used truck. A nice, new set of quality leather seats for $1500 sounds like a good solution, especially the heated ones since most older trucks only have heated seats on the highest trim levels. I do agree this is a wast on a new vehicle but on used vehicle that has lots of useful life left and the seats are worn then this would be worth it. With some of the discounts available on new full size trucks it is not much more to buy the extra... Most who want leather seats on a new truck will probably just accept the extra equipment that they would not normally buy. I bought a new Ram 1500 2015 outdoorsman with the Eco-diesel without leather seats or most important COOLED SEATS. I put all leather in my 4 door truck with heated and cooled seats for 1780 without Tax. It had pictures from a junkyard of many late model body on frame suvs that basically had little or no body damage but many of them were junked because many after a few years hit the pay day lots and are bought by those who can least afford to... Pickup trucks hold their value much better and are for the most part better maintained. The same article said that many of the suvs' parts especially drive trains were donors for pickup trucks. Source: news.pickuptrucks.com
