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I am shopping for a Premium, but I'm concerned with the cloth seats. How do they hold up to food, juice, pee-pee and etc. ? Easy clean up? Current car is leather, which has been a breeze cleaning up. I don't want to get a limited, due to higher cost and other items we don't need. Thanks.
LOl Cloth and kids do not mix regardless of car or brand.

Finding some type of seat cover for the rear seat is the #1 thing you should do before you pack the kids. We have a limited OB the kids ride in and a Premium Legacy the kids never see the inside of primarily due to the cloth seats not working with kids.
 

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I cant say I have ever pee'd on my cloth seats in my '12 Premium, but many here have complained about the way the cloth wears in these cars. I can attest that it does not appear to be as rugged and durable as the cloth in my '06 Forester, but so far, with 10,000 miles on the odometer in 6 months, I have no issues. However, I do not have kids. I Scotchguarded the heck out of all the cloth surfaces on the interior, including the rear cargo area, headliner, carpets and seats, and have had a few spills of coffee, and a buddy of mine got guacamole all over one of my seats recently on a road trip, and i was able to wipe it out with a washcloth and water, but again, I Scotchguarded them the day after I bought the car, then did it last week right before the road trip. With that said, if I had kids, and they had a habit of peeing all over everything, grinding their feet into the seats, etc, I may go the route of neoprene seat covers. If you're not keen to the idea of a seat cover I'd do leather over bare factory cloth.
The after market leather is installed over the seat not over the top of the cloth factory seat covers. They remove the cloth seat cover and install the leather cover - the aftermarket leather is generally much better quality than the leather or fake leather seat covers you get with the limited.
 

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I have a set of rules also.

#1 no kids
#2 no kids
#3 no kids

;-) LOL
LOL you either have kids and have someone else do the kid hauling - are over 50yrs old or not married yet ha ha.

Even when we didn't have kids the 75lb Red Doberman - OUR first kid made good use of the leather seat covers in our old legacy - he rode in his bed any time he was in the car but he still tracked in dirt. Easy wipe down and the seats were fine.
 
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