Vifa

Hello There

How do you treat the leather in your car? With what leather product and any specific method?

964rh

Used to use liquid leather from gliptone? when I had leather.

Apply the cleaner with a soft nail brush and then use the conditioner with a soft cloth and leave to soak in.

Stinks like real leather, depending how much you used could sometimes become a bit over powering.

Rocket Rob

I have had good luck using Lexol Leather cleaner and conditioners. I typically use it twice a year. Its pretty easy to use, just follow the instructions on the bottles.

No affiliations.

Vifa

Thanks for the tip.

So it doesn't mean anything if I use 'BMW Leather care'? (http://64.225.94.154/ShopSite/media/BMWleather.jpg)

Anyway, there is a little wear and tear at my left seat (very little!), possible to get rid of this?

lapu01

Hey, I used some nano-stuff called Sonax Xtreme on my car when i bought it. Very easy to use and not very labour intensive, afterwards the seats looked almost new. Now I am considering trying to use it on my wife as well.

elbeee964

Keep in mind your stock leather's (seats, interior) exposed surface isn't leather, but plastic film.

Treat it the same as you would your dash plastic and you'll be fine.

A nice, uber-soft, effective treatment would be Aerospace 303.
Water soluble, non-filming (I believe) and what the concourse volk use on their plastic bits.

dcbailey

Leatherique works well for me. It removed whatever plastic covering was over my leather. It's a two step process with cleaner and conditioner. You put it on and leave it in the sun to heat it up. Seems to do the job.

parsecnc4

Are you saying that my religious use of leather cleaner and conditioner on the seats have been wasteful activities since they are covered in plastic?

aeroman

Yah, I want to know as well.

Vifa

Me to...I don't even know what people are talking about anymore!...Seats covered in plastic? - I don't get it?

aeroman

I am wondering if it is kind of like the plastic seat covers at grandma's house

potent951turbo

+1 on leatherique.

elbeee964

Not meaning to start anyone's jihad, 'religion'-wise -- but yeah -- only the leather's tiny perforations received any of that 'leather' cleaner/conditioner's benefit.

Elsewhere on our factory leather any real leather cleaner/conditioner (like saddle soap) is as well applied to your plastic door pull as to the seat material. (Hey, a long time ago I, too, applied that Connolly rendered fat to my 3.2 Carrera's seats )

Edit: Now maybe they're marketing a perfectly fine seat leather-plastic care product as a "leather" conditioner/cleaner. I got no problem with that -- The public wants to call it "leather conditioner/cleaner", then that's what we'll call it. i.e., If your current stuff works for you -- use it!

Most all the leather out there (Mercedes, bimmers, audi, nippon, US) is such plastic coated stuff.
Real deal raw leather (like that of a saddle) is a fairly rare bird, auto-wise; mostly found on the high-zoot stuff like a Maser I once sat in at an auto show.
Like the definition of ****: you know it when you see it.

I was told one easy test is water or oil wicking. (drop it on: does it soak in?)
I use my own touch test: (Does it *really* feel like a baseball glove or saddle? when I scratch it with my fingernail, does it leave an easy mark?)

My meager education on the topic recalls that our factory leather is split between it's original surfaces... the newly exposed 'split surface' is left raw (breathable) and will become the hidden/foam-side/glued surface upon installation. The leather's original 'smooth, exterior' surface is given the plastic coating. And it's the side the customer will touch.

Of course, I may be full of 3 state's fertilizer. Do a short search in one of the fussier forums around here, like car-care/concourse, and you'll likely vindicate my credibility... or my bs tonnage.
Report back with what ya find!

Vifa

One thing I know, is that the upper part of the dash board was in some hot countries 'not' leather at all. Spain or Italy were too hot so cars built for that countries were not fitted with the 'leather'.

Vifa

I have recently given my seats a leather treatment, and I have to say, plastic or not, they feel more soft now. Also, I think they gonna last longer if you give them some kind of leather treatment once or twice per year, than if you don't do it.

Anyway. talking about leather treatments, how to recover the seats original blue color? I have a place which is a litte bit grey because of use. Can I get the blue color back again?