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Lear Extends Exchange Offer for 7.96% Senior Notes Due

14 January 2000

Lear Corporation Extends Exchange Offer for 7.96% Senior Notes Due 2005 And 8.11% Senior Notes Due 2009 to 5 p.m., New York City Time, On January 18, 2000

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Jan. 14 -- Lear Corporation
announced today that it is has extended its exchange offer for all of its
outstanding 7.96% Senior Notes due 2005 and 8.11% Senior Notes due 2009 from
5 p.m., New York City time, on January 17, 2000 to 5 p.m., New York City time,
on January 18, 2000.
    In its exchange offer, Lear is offering to exchange up to $600,000,000
aggregate principal amount of its 7.96% Series B Senior Notes due 2005 which
have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for a like
principal amount of its original unregistered 7.96% Senior Notes due 2005 and
up to $800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 8.11% Series B Senior
Notes due 2009 which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for a like aggregate principal amount of its original unregistered
8.11% Senior Notes due 2009.  The terms of the exchange securities are
identical in all respects to the terms of the original securities for which
they are being exchanged, except that the registration rights and related
liquidated damages provisions, and the transfer restrictions, applicable to
the original securities are not applicable to the exchange securities.
    The exchange offer is being made only pursuant to Lear's prospectus, dated
December 15, 1999, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as part of Lear's Registration Statement on Form S-4.  The
Registration Statement was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission on December 15, 1999.
    Copies of the prospectus and transmittal materials governing the exchange
offer may be obtained from the Exchange Agent, The Bank of New York, at the
following address:

    The Bank of New York
    101 Barclay Street
    New York, New York 10286
    Attention: Tolutope Adeyujo
    Reorganization Section
    212-815-2824