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Old 05-25-2023, 06:14 PM   #1
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Theatre Recliners vinyl covering peeling off

What can I do to stop this and are there any remedies others have done. I don’t even know what companies make the furniture in our 2018 Laredo 325RL … pleather is a good word to describe the brown material that is beige cloth like material under the peeling area. Was wondering who manufacturers couches and theatre recliners for Keystone …
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Old 05-25-2023, 06:21 PM   #2
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What year? What model of Laredo? What kind of peeling? It's very hard to answer questions when you have no idea what it is you are asking. There have been issues with "pleather" but it may or may not be your problem.
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Old 05-25-2023, 06:30 PM   #3
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I just added more info to my post thanks
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Old 05-25-2023, 06:58 PM   #4
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Yes, it sounds like you have the infamous "pleather" that was around for a few years - I owned it and hated it. It looked really nice when new then went to heck.

We used slip covers over the recliners. Went through 2 kinds before we found some that fit well on the back and had arm covers as well. I was going to buy new furniture but decided to change RVs instead. The underlying fabric of the pleather is not compromised it's just the fake material they adhere to it.

RecPro makes a lot of replacement furniture and who I had intended to use. Other folks use residential furniture that will fit. Some try to repair the pleather but I've never seen one that looks "right".

You can google RV replacement furniture or theater seating and should come up with some options, you will need the measurements, style etc. Good luck on finding what you want, I know it made us sick when it started just peeling off at the start of the 2nd year.
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Old 05-25-2023, 07:07 PM   #5
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Thank you so much for this information we appreciate it..
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Old 05-25-2023, 07:09 PM   #6
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The pleather furniture is courtesy of Thomas Payne Co. The shedding of skin like a snake is a feature common to the stuff that company manufactures. Any furniture you see that can be shipped (eBay, Amazon, etc.) will have backs that slide out of tracks to enable smaller shipping containers. Our LazyBoy love seat recliner (all leather) had backs that came out. This is important to enable you to get them through a narrow camper door. We sold the LazyBoy and put in two recliners (the type that can recline when close to a wall) and they are fabric and more comfortable.
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Old 05-25-2023, 07:10 PM   #7
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We had the same problem with out "Keystone OEM furniture". It's not the best available and it's not the worst either. Problem is the temperature and humidity changes along with the UV that comes in those "huge windows on the trailer"... All that is a "death sentence" for cheap pleather.

Our solution was to order two RecPro swivel rocker recliners and since we're in the Elkhart area often, we picked them up at the distributor's warehouse for a 10% discount.

Here's the link to what we bought: https://www.recpro.com/recpro-charle...-rocker-chair/

I will say that they are significantly more comfortable than the OEM style "Thomas Payne things" that they replaced.

Had I known several years ago how "uncomfortable" the OEM chairs were and how much better these one "sit", I'd have never experienced any "pleather peeling" !!!!!
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