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Originally Posted by Zoidberg
When we went shopping for our 1 series, we test drove a 128i with leatherette. My wife felt sick on the test drive, but we figured it was my aggressive driving. A few days later we sat in another 128i with leatherette, and the same nausea returned. In the end, we bough a car with Boston leather, and so far she has not felt sick or nauseous once.
My vote is that your GF has a sensitivity to the synthetic material used in the leatherette - assuming your car isn't leather.
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leatherette is made from PVC which contains lead, a chemical known to cause cancer
http://www.calprop65.com/pvc.html
"
Leatherette is a form of
artificial leather, usually made by covering a fabric base with plastic. The fabric can be made of a natural or a synthetic fibre which is then covered with a
soft PVC layer." (from wikipedia)
There is a general purpose warning on page 6 of the manual, but it doesn't say exactly what parts of the interior are effected.
The 128 CNN tested probably had the leatherette.