The leather interior option depends on the country and and the trim. For the 1.5 until myear 2020 (in Germany at least) it was only an noption for the Prestige trim level.
I would doubt that it was ONLY an option with prestige....
Iām rettry sure it was only an option with the prestige.
I know that leather is an option NOW since 2020. but it wasnāt before for the sport plus. At least officially. But they didnt tell me they can sell me one with lether except the prestige so... And Prestige trim level doesnāt even exist in Germany now.Prestige in Belgium is the highest level on the 1.5L
And leather is standard on Prestige, are you sure you didn't mixed it up with standard equipment?
On Premium and Prestige leather is standard.
Premium is the highest trimlevel on 1.0L
And Prestige is the highest trimlevel on the 1.5L
I have an Elegance (so 1.0L) bought in January from 2019 and it has the OPTIONAL Leather interior.
The Honda Brochure pre 2020 is crap because it is unclear.
In the summary at the end of the brochure they state that leather interior is not available on the other trim levels outside Premium/Prestige.
Even on the Options brochure you dont see anything.
But on the summary Price list, they do show the Leather Interior option!
Look, last line:
On the current configurator, you can chose Leather as an option...
I believe this was the same before the facelift....
Even on the German website, I could opt for Leather interior in 'Sport Plus' trim for the 1.5....
So, yet, if you go to a dealers and ask for it as an option, its 2000 euro extra!
We got a 1000 euro discount.
Believe me, you can have leather as an option on ALL trim levels.
If its not standard, the seat design is even slightly different
In 2019 on the 1.0L I wanted to add side skirts.
There are specific (ugly) side skirts for the 1.0L trims.
But I asked my dealer to install the side skirts for the 1.5L
Why not? its all the same car, so he did that!
Dont always go by the books, these cars are all the same and the official options listings are not logical.
Ask for leather, and you shall get leather, as long as you pay for it!
When you think about, it, why wouldn't you be able to have leather in certain trims in more expensive cars, if I can have it on mine....? (1.0L with Elegance trim)
Are the issues with your Civic solved now?
That was a shocking big list....must have been a lemon?
Also, I think you had a shit dealer if he said the leather was no option on that specifc trim....
He clearly doesnt know the options policy from his own brand and I would be very surprised that its like that in a country like Germany....a country on wich the native brands have endless options list...I would be surprised that Honda Germany would limit the options posibilities compared to Honda Belgium lol
PS: my interior isnt even full leather.
Because my door panels are still cloth.
Cheers, I'll have a search for the center caps. They look different to all the ones I've found so far.
You can have the dealer add lots of things after the fact but my original point is that my car wasn't available with factory leather (at least here and a few other countries by the looks of it).
cant speak about the past of the specific German market offerings, but I really think your dealer is either unaware or misinformed about the leather seat option in all trims...I know that leather is an option NOW since 2020. but it wasnāt before for the sport plus. At least officially. But they didnt tell me they can sell me one with lether except the prestige so... And Prestige trim level doesnāt even exist in Germany now.
From the 1.5 Hatch (I was talking about the Hatch only!) you can only order the SportPlus sine 2020 but there are like 6 different trims with the 1.0 engine. But now in 2020 -like you wrote- leather is an option officially.
The issues are partially solved, but the ac whitle is still there and Iām waiting for the A/C to completely break because sooner or later it breaks in Every Single Civic that was built between 2016 and 2019. sadly.
I can tell you if you buy a Civic in Germany you can count with some hard time. They even forgot to register the car and to the initial checkup and forgot to initialize the maintanence Reminder system. I had an 8th gen civic and drove it fom 90t km to 230t km and had basically no issues. With this one in ONE year I was at the delaer at least 6 times because of different issues. I still have this car only because I really really like to drive it, thats why it was also important to buy it with the 1.5 engine too. I still hope there will be no more surprises. And to be honest these problems were not all unexpected for me because I read civicx before i bought it and I knew there will be problems and warranty repairs.
the door panel is cloth in yours??? Then you also have the easily-getting-dirty armrests on the door?
