Anyone who has a mk2. If you look on the drivers seat by the tilt mechanism on the bottom cushion you may well find a small tear appearing, as I did. If so go and complain to your local Mazda dealer. I did and they are replacing the seat cover as it looks like it is caused by a design fault !! (5/00)

I have this very problem with my MkII drivers seat. I was going to get my local dealer to sort it out during the next service. Only another 1000 miles to wait. I too was going to point out a design fault problem. Every time you swing your legs in and out of the drivers door, the seat material gets pinched on the plastic surround of the seat back tilt/pivot point.It was bound to get damaged at some point. (5/00)

I checked during lunch and my 1 year old mk2 has the same problem. A +- 1cm long, 0.5cm wide tear near the plastic on the side of the drivers seat (LHD car in this case, so I suppose the passengers seat could be suffering from the same problem if it's used often enough). Looks nasty once you know it's there. Oh BTW: I have cloth seats (no leather option available in Belgium when I bought the car). Anyone with leather seats who has the same problem? I was thinking about upgrading to leather later on, so maybe this could be the perfect excuse :^). (5/00)