I’m Sorry but I Have To Vent: Mandatory Red Seats?! Puke.

[Dral97]

Hella yella with red isn't the worst, but definitely not attractive imo. Definitely makes me think McDs.

 

[4R73M15]

Well it isn’t really yellow….you put the red seats in a hella yella and you have a seriously good looking Jeep.

LOL - agree to disagree.

I will say as an owner of the high velocity yellow. It really does depend on the lighting, but most of the time it shows up as highlighter yellow. The lightest green tint comes through on the super blue sky days.

 

[Smess]

Hey guys,

So I’m going through a rough time with my 392 order (seen in my only other post on this forum), and it’s all because of the fire engine red seats they require to be in every single 392. I have an order in for Sarge Green and I’m about to cancel it and put a new order in (or just stick with my 2023 4xe) because I can’t stomach the idea of driving around like it’s Christmas 12 months out of the year. Green, red, and bronze. I don’t think I could pick uglier colors if I tried.

Yellow on red on bronze? Red on red on bronze? Blue on red on bronze? Green on red on bronze? This makes those colors unbuyable unless you’re willing to pay thousands more to reupholster the seats and/or have seat covers. Idk about you but I cannot stomach the idea of paying almost $100 thousand dollars for a Jeep Wrangler and then having to immediately pull out the seats because they are atrocious. Just the idea that you’re paying $100k for a jeep wrangler and not given the option to choose between red seats and a black seats is offensive. And on top of that, they get rid of the one color that the red seats would look best with: sting gray!

I know jeep has smart people working for them and I love their products (I’ve had a 22 gladiator Mohave, a 22 Sahara 4xe and now a 23 rubicon 4xe), but somebody please tell me what they were thinking? Maybe I’m missing something?

(Rant over)

I bought a White Gladiator with Dana 60's and steer smart front end and 40's and too much to list that the owner of the dealership built for himself but I could not stomach the tan/camel old lady interior. He said he did it so he would get the dark grey dash instead of the red dash as it was a Rubicon.

When I got the Jeep home first thing I did was change the interior.

I found a guy online who does the Katskin and I went on his site and ordered custom seats that had black and red (LOL your favorite) and the rear behind my back and under my butt were black and the sides were red and they were really nice looking.

When they arrived I opened the box to find all back with red stitching. I called and the guy said OMG they recently changed the symbols and he guessed one of the long term employees zoned it.

He game be a discount and promised to give me a huge discount on my next order.

Get this, the custom two tone seats which were much nicer than stock were $855 and I think the two tone uncharge was $200

I found a local installer that put them in for $300

The same local Katskin dealer quoted me $2,400 installed.

The guy could not have been nicer, he said he lives in Idaho if I remember correctly and has a barn out back on his property and he is one of two dealers that is allowed to sell online and violate the dealer territory boundaries.

He has basically no over head and that's how he gets the price down so low.

Granted this was a Gladiator and I am sure a Wrangler Unlimited has more leather but I would not sweat the red issue. I agree though gold and red yuck.

Funny thing is AEV had a special edition anniversary edition several years back and it has silver exterior, gold wheels, and red interior.

YUCK but they sold like hot cakes LOL

 

[Shark01]

Hella yella with red isn't the worst, but definitely not attractive imo. Definitely makes me think McDs.

You should probably stop eating at crappy burger places. The red/yellow combo has been a staple in racing for decades, and like 80% of modern Ferraris feature a red/yellow scheme.

 

[oyealiz]

Unless you are 6’ 4” and wear a cape, blue over red should be a hell no. And I’ll laugh my butt off if I ever see one.

I can’t believe that will be the only option though, I think they are just featuring it to drive orders of colors that actually go with it (white, silver, black, gray).

If my order ever comes in, I will dump the black seats in favor of something similar to the old high Altitude light gray with bronze stitching.

You can go ahead and laugh at my Vette. I love blue with red interior. Heck, I love red interior with most anything but Orange. That is a NO from me!
I still don't understand why Jeep would only offer red, though. Why in the world not offer black, as well?!

OP: I had red put in my Sting Gray Rubicon.

 

[64Chevy]

The red seats are actually helping me order. Prior to the announcement, my plan was to wait until a new "fun" color came around (I currently have a Copper Brown JK, and would love a 392 in Mango Tango). The plus of the red seats is they would, to me, look bad with many of the skittles-type colors. So it saves me from waiting and hoping that the next Jeep "fun" color would work with red seats, and confines me to colors that I think look okay with the red (which to me are black, white, silver, maybe Earl and Anvil, and less maybe Hydro). I'd really prefer black, even though I agree with those that posted that like a more lively interior than black--the red is kinda a bridge too far, but not enough to prevent me from pulling the trigger.

 

[Nuke_1]

Haven't we beat the ugly lipstick red seats and the ugly renegade grill to death yet? This is what it is, I happen to like the grill and I don't believe the seats are lipstick/fire engine red more of a merlot wine color. I'll know for sure when mine is finally delivered, was hoping this week but it just got pushed to the 17th. It's not like the complete interior is red, it's only the seats and stitching... So you have a few choices, buy something older with Black, hope they add black seats as an option later, reupholster the seats in your color choice and make your Jeep your own! or Buy something other then a 392 or find someone with a different model that would likes the red and swap them. geesh! I think we all wish there were more colors to pick from both in and outside!

 

[wsullivan54]

Haven't we beat the ugly lipstick red seats and the ugly renegade grill to death yet? This is what it is, I happen to like the grill and I don't believe the seats are lipstick/fire engine red more of a merlot wine color. I'll know for sure when mine is finally delivered, was hoping this week but it just got pushed to the 17th. It's not like the complete interior is red, it's only the seats and stitching... So you have a few choices, buy something older with Black, hope they add black seats as an option later, reupholster the seats in your color choice and make your Jeep your own! or Buy something other then a 392 or find someone with a different model that would likes the red and swap them. geesh! I think we all wish there were more colors to pick from both in and outside!

I agree with you completely. I was going to say with all the hate, there sure is a whole lot of orders going in for the ‘24. I can’t wait for mine to get here, red seats and all.

 

[Dral97]

You should probably stop eating at crappy burger places. The red/yellow combo has been a staple in racing for decades, and like 80% of modern Ferraris feature a red/yellow scheme.

Haven't actually eaten at McDs since about 2003. Just don't like their food anymore. I mean the combo is better than orange and green or purple and yellow. I guess it looks ok on a Ferrari though. Just did a search to check out a few and the title of this pic made me laugh though:

 

[Dral97]

I agree with you completely. I was going to say with all the hate, there sure is a whole lot of orders going in for the ‘24. I can’t wait for mine to get here, red seats and all.

They've grown on me. I have a 20A on the way and I have to say I like the red and black seats. The seat belts I'm not sold on yet.

I just think it would have been nice for them to offer more than one option. The same thing happened on the FE bronco. They first offered only the Navy pier option. Then they added on an all black option later, presumably after people bitched and moaned enough.

The HAs have more than one option. If we're paying premium for these, it would have just been nice for them to have more than one thing.

 

[Jeepstin392]

OP, IMO, if you can afford a 392, you can afford to replace the seats. Somebody out there will buy the red ones.

 

[84jeepjohn]

OP, IMO, if you can afford a 392, you can afford to replace the seats. Somebody out there will buy the red ones.

Agree. I was one who really hated the seats...now not so sure. Granted with a Red jeep coming YES I would have preferred black (or the 20 A seats) but If I really do not like them... well I will get new covers for them. It's not that much more in the overall scheme of things. Hell I think some dealers would put Katskinz on and roll it into the loan if you are that worried.

 

[Donkey's Dad]

I was just chatting with Anthony Boi at Mark CJDR on Saturday about this. I have an order for a '24 Sarge Green in the que, but I asked him to switch it to Red if possible (I'm still just in confirmed status so he thought they might accept the color change request)... Anyway, on the seats, Anthony said they are trying to work a deal with Katskins to offer options for folks buying the 24's who don't want red. They figure they might be able to get a volume discount and pass on the savings to us.

Hopefully they will pull that off and it will be easy to get them done.

 

[Dral97]

I don't remember if it was here or the fb group, but I saw a red one recently. I thought it was going to be too much red, but I actually liked the way it looked.

 

[YukonCornelius]

I don't remember if it was here or the fb group, but I saw a red one recently. I thought it was going to be too much red, but I actually liked the way it looked.

Same... with some (the majority at least) of the colors. I'm actually excited for the Anvil/red combo like the 10th Anniversary.
But with Sarge? No thanks... can you say "driving Christmas all year long?"
High Velocity? Pass. Unless you are a huge Ronald McDonald fan...

 

[Donkey's Dad]

Same... with some (the majority at least) of the colors. I'm actually excited for the Anvil/red combo like the 10th Anniversary.
But with Sarge? No thanks... can you say "driving Christmas all year long?"
High Velocity? Pass. Unless you are a huge Ronald McDonald fan...

That's why I requested to flip my Sarge order to Firecracker Red...

 

[Shark01]

You can go ahead and laugh at my Vette. I love blue with red interior. Heck, I love red interior with most anything but Orange. That is a NO from me!
I still don't understand why Jeep would only offer red, though. Why in the world not offer black, as well?!

OP: I had red put in my Sting Gray Rubicon.

LOL, yep definitely laughing at that.

 

[Jeepstin392]

Today, I had the opportunity to rent a dodge Durango hemi, that just happened to have red seats.
I’ll save my typical candor and simply say, there’s no way in the pit of hell I would ever have red seats. My inner guido tried to come out, looking for jewelry stores, hair gel, tanning salons, yelling questionable obscenities to ladies as I drove by… Hard pass for me on the red Leather.

 

[Brian Joe]

Haven't we beat the ugly lipstick red seats and the ugly renegade grill to death yet? This is what it is, I happen to like the grill and I don't believe the seats are lipstick/fire engine red more of a merlot wine color. I'll know for sure when mine is finally delivered, was hoping this week but it just got pushed to the 17th. It's not like the complete interior is red, it's only the seats and stitching... So you have a few choices, buy something older with Black, hope they add black seats as an option later, reupholster the seats in your color choice and make your Jeep your own! or Buy something other then a 392 or find someone with a different model that would likes the red and swap them. geesh! I think we all wish there were more colors to pick from both in and outside!

I completely agree. I called to check in on the 392 2024 edition (I have a 2022 Jeep 392 XR and using as a daily driver so already have over 36K miles so I am hoping to purchase one more and store it before they discontinue them (It drives so smooth you wouldn't believe). I was super excited so see that had they continued its production, but the red seats are such a turn-off that I could not consider purchasing it. I hope they allow black leather interiors on their Jeep 392 XR in 2025. The Red color looks so nasty and cheap looking. It would look especially bad with other colors besides black. Terrible idea for Jeep 392 designers to make red monitory.

 

[guruman]

I don't get why so many people are hung up on this... It's a Jeep.... ANYTHING you don't like you can change... it's part of the Jeep charm. A half-dozen companies make replacement seats or covers in a dizzying array of colors and options to match your handbag.

I had custom replacement leather lined up and ready to pull the trigger on long before my Jeep was delivered. I didn't like the red either, but I told myself I would let it marinate a bit to see if it grew on me. Not sure it has, but compared to other things I've changed making the seats different is not that big of a bar.