Zeus993

Quick question for convertible owners. Just back from a 1000 mile 5-day rip through the local BC and WA Mountains with my son. Awesome trip and will post route and pics later. Now to clean the car. With windows down there's a fair amount of dust. How do you recommend to clean it? Moist microfiber towel to start to get the bulk of it off? Then Autoglym conditioner? TIA. Joel.

Mike in CA

Not a convertible owner but do have lots of experience with a full leather interior. If the leather has been regularly treated with a good conditioner it shouldn't need to be retreated just to deal with dust. Unless we're talking about caked on dirt here , that slightly damp microfiber towel will do the trick.

okbarnett

blow the whole car out with a lawn blower

Edgy01

A damp microfiber cloth is just fine, as a first step.

kosmo

yep, i blow it out then damp towel. thats it.

Zeus993

Tx guys. Will do.
Btw... What a car to drive through the mountains. Exceptional!

Marine Blue

Damp microfiber as others have stated. If you're really **** you can follow this up with a static duster to pick up and additional lint/dust which the microfiber doesn't pick up.

okbarnett

If you blow it out good, theres nothing left to wipe off,
use loose bristle paint brush to get micro dust out of *****, handles, trim

kitwetzler

Yeah, I find a good vacuum works great. I haven't had much luck blowing stuff out, I usually find that as soon as I blow dust off part of the interior, it settles on another.

Einzett Cockpit Premium is a great cleaner, but it has no protectants or conditioners built it, so use it for touch ups/etc. between conditioning. Leather Master is a great conditioner.

Minok

Route? Stops? Camping? Hiking? What, what what? I'm more interested in the route than the grunge in the car afterward.

Babakp

year ago I used to buy Hide Food from Jaguar, the best leather treatment... can't find it anymore at least in Toronto, any suggestions for very good leather treatment products? I'm assuming a more specialized product will be better and cheaper than what is bottled from the dealer?
Suggestions?

gota911

Connolly Hide Food is available on line at different auto web sites. Here is a link to one of them

Autogeek.net

Marine Blue

I don't believe that hide food is recommended for the more modern leathers used in nearly all cars. Only exceptions may be Rolls Royce and Bently which may still use natural dyed leathers.

I can state from experience that Leather Masters works very well for cleaning and protection of the current and 80's/90's leather. I've also heard from many that Zaino Z8 works well.

Zeus993

The trip route? Its coming... Mountains, valleys, desert, and freeways. We did it all. Fantastic.

For the leather care I used a damp MF and then followed up with the Autoglym leather cream product. Great conditioner, and smell too.

RennlistTomE

Vacuum with a long-bristle (~ 2" bristle) upholstery brush first.
Then wipe with a damp cloth of your favorite leather cleaner.