Wife wouldn't let me buy dealer fabric protection for $400. What do now?

[remoteportal]

What got the hard sell at the final purchasing step of our 2010 Corolla to add the dealer fabric protection... supposedly half price at a steal of $400. It included a "we'll replace your fabric if we can't get spots out" claim.

What that a good price?

My wife read that having the dealer do this is always over priced.

What should I do now? Should I pay a professional to protect our fabrics (we don't have leather), or should I purchase some off the shelf Scotchguard-type products at WalMart?

[humanoid]

So if you bought the dealer package and you got a stain on your seats then you would have to go back to the dealer to have them clean it??? That sounds pretty inconvenient. Get something called ScotchGard and spray that on your seats, I'm betting it's the same thing the dealer uses. IIRC you can get a can of that stuff for less than $5.

BTW, don't get any sort of "dealer protection" package from any dealer, it's their way of lightening your wallet. You've got a smart wife, don't lose her!

[TrailDust]

If you have kids I can see going through the expense and hassle of protecting the fabric. But if you don't have kids I'd add no protectant, and instead spray Folex spot remover on stains. The fastest, cheapest, most effective way to go in my book if you don't have kids.

[AXMACD]

Originally Posted by humanoid

So if you bought the dealer package and you got a stain on your seats then you would have to go back to the dealer to have them clean it??? That sounds pretty inconvenient. Get something called ScotchGard and spray that on your seats, I'm betting it's the same thing the dealer uses. IIRC you can get a can of that stuff for less than $5.

BTW, don't get any sort of "dealer protection" package from any dealer, it's their way of lightening your wallet. You've got a smart wife, don't lose her!

ScotchGard is the worst product on the face of this PLANET, my parents ScotchGarded a very nice, new sofa & chair once and it shrunk the fabric and ruined the sofa, I wouldn't trust it in my vehicle unless I knew for sure what it was going to do!

I would take it back to Toyota and either not tell her or con her into thinking it was a good idea, at least if they screw it it's their bad, not yours!

[workerant]

Keep the wife, trash the $400 deal.