Everything you’ll ever want to know about automotive leather upholstery –
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Everything you’ll ever want to know about automotive leather upholstery –
– but were too afraid to ask.
Automobile manufacturers have blurred the distinguishing lines on what exactly leather is. Premium leather is the top split of the hide. There are many so-called ‘leathers’ that are actually the bottom split (the fibrous part of the hide) which are covered with a vinyl or urethane coating. Diagnosis is the key, not guess work. Before deciding on what products to use, you need to ascertain the grade of leather and the type of leather finish applied
Automobile model ranges use different materials for their vehicles interiors; leather upholstery like Aniline Immersion Dyed, Aniline Micro Pigmented, (Urethane) Finished, Artificial leather such as MB-Tex and unfinished materials like Synthetics and Alcantara, and sometimes combinations of products (Alcantara seat inserts on leather seating) as well as various grades of leather hide, full-grain, top-grain and split –grain (which is protected with urethane) all of which require different products and applications methods
TOGWT® Autopia Detailing Wiki – “Leather Upholstery Type Surface Identification” - http://www.autopia.org/forum/autopia...fication.html#
“Leather Articles Hyperlinks” http://www.autopia.org/forum/autopia...yperlinks.html
If you have any questions about automotive leather, its care or renovation techniques, please let me know or feel free to send me an email
Last edited by TOGWT; 12-04-2012 at 06:44 AM.
