redying leather

[Logan2224]

Is there anyway to do this? My car has gray leather, and there are many spots on the driver's seat that are black. It looks like the dye has rubbed off. I will post some pictures when I get home.

 

[brwill2005]

Sure there is. It is not an easy or fast process. I may be re-dyeing the front leather seats on an M5 soon. Check out Leatherique, they have some excellent information on leather dyeing.

 

[GTFreddy]

I have no personally done this before, but when I went to get an adhesive repaired on my convertible top I saw the guy there applying dye and heating it up with something that look like a hair drier at the same location. Seemed like a messy job, if the car is relatively new I'd probably move away from the DIY approch and move more towards having a professional do it, just because of the cost involved in recovering seats in the event that you screw them up. I think it was something like 50-100 dollars a seat to redo.