Restore hard leather

[-Lebowski-]

I have heard rave reviews on Conolly as well. Check these out...

http://www.autogeek.net/cohica1.html

http://www.autogeek.net/colecacl.html

 

[imported_The Cleaner]

tlak, in my case it did leave residue on the windows, but I used over 1.5 Litres.



Cleaner, your point is an interesting one. Logically, what you say is correct and won't do harm following it. But it may be wasteful of the PC. You see, RO is the deep cleaner, and PC the surface cleaner. PC is a diluted version of RO. But RO is also the conditioner. No matter how dirty and clogged the leather is you need to start with RO. This will dissolve all impurites, be absorbed deep into the leather, and displace (pushing from the inside out) all the deeper impurities. They will rise to the surface of the leather and look like a white residue or scum. Then you use the PC to dissolve and clean the surface residue.



This process can be repeated until the leather can't absorb any more and the RO just sits on the surface. Clean with PC, let dry, then buff with a dry towel.



Allowing the car to sit in the sun with closed windows is key to RO working properly.

It has been a while since I used Leatherique, and you are exactly right - RO and then PC, Thank You for picking up on this and correcting me. Sorry for the mis-information!

 

[asleepz]

ASLEEP- dont know if this helps you any but this sounds like it may help you out. Many moons ago when i got my first car with leather seats I took it to a upholstery shop specializing in leather to find out how to best care for leather seats.



Anywho, while in the guy's shop i noticed a car with considerably worn leather seats, on the seats the guy had white bed sheets that had been soaked in some type of leather conditioner or oil. He told me he was bringing the seats "back to life" (at the time i was ignorant to all this). He ran down his process for me which was to spray the seats with the conditioner, a lot of conditioner, work the conditioner in (he did this like 3x) then he took these strips of sheets that had been soaking in the same conditioner and layed them on the leather seats, said so the leather can keep soaking up the conditioner. Like another poster mentioned, he did have the car out in the sun he said it "opened up" the leather.



Hope it helps you some. I couldn't tell you the name of the product he used i was just paying attention to the process.

Thanks everyone.