Rotten leather

M

maxel

New member
I am thinking about buying this Golf Mk4 GTi , with tan leather... the interior is rotten.

The reason I'm interested in it is because it's so cheap.



Anywho, is there a way recover the leather, carpets, dash?



Google didn't show anything useful...



Thanks :)
 
Don't know what you mean by rotten, but if there extremely dirty a Mr.Clean Magic Eraser always does the trick for me.
 
IMG_0697.jpg


IMG_0698.jpg


IMG_0699.jpg


IMG_0700.jpg


IMG_0701.jpg


IMG_0702.jpg


IMG_0703.jpg


IMG_0723.jpg


IMG_0724.jpg


IMG_0725.jpg


IMG_0727.jpg


IMG_0728.jpg




It doesnt look so good in pictures but it's a really good example. Just uber dirty and.... rotten..
 
Dude..that's not just rotten. That looks like MOLD to me. Honestly, like I suggested the Mr.Clean Magic Eraser should easily take care of that. That whole car is trashed.
 
that is mold, if you cut open the seat wit will be 10x worse in the foam



looks like it was flooded than let sit for a few months.



Only way to recover at this point is to scrap the interior, bleach it then install a new interior. If it was looked at just after flooding, you could have probably steam/extracted the interior and let the seats dry out in the sun for a few days
 
Thanks, yeah molded.. meant that.



But believe me, it's just dirty, paint is perfect only some minor things here and there that need to be fixed.
 
LouisanaJeeper said:
that is mold, if you cut open the seat wit will be 10x worse in the foam



looks like it was flooded than let sit for a few months.



Only way to recover at this point is to scrap the interior, bleach it then install a new interior. If it was looked at just after flooding, you could have probably steam/extracted the interior and let the seats dry out in the sun for a few days
Click to expand...



Wow nice... it just gets better and better...
 
I say just scrap the whole thing. The only way you would get me in a car like that is with a hazmat suit.



If you bleach it...prepare to smell like bleach for the next few years of your life.
 
maxel said:
The reason I'm interested in it is because it's so cheap.
Click to expand...



Its so cheap because it is a health hazard. If you haven't bought it yet I wouldn't mess with it....If you have bought it already then I would like to see what Leatherique could do with that. True test to one of the best leather rejuvenators out there. Good luck man.
 
Jesus, it's biohazard :shocked

Well, maybe you can clean it by taking whole interior, carpets, seats etc. apart. But I think you might still need to re-dye the leather...
 
If you even get the interior clean, you may have some serious mechanical and electrical problems that show themselves down the road. I've personally submarined a car before, and it literally fell apart afterwards!
 
that has to be a flood car. if not it has set for a few years. I know my aunts old car she had. sat in the back yard for like 4 years and the interir was molded. I would walk away from this car. if its so cheap then it has to be something wrong with it. do a car fax on it and see what it says. it it brings up any hits. then it damaged goods. but with all that mold its a deffinate hazzard and in the long run is getting a cheap car worth ruining your lungs for life?
 
Just to give you an idea, for re-dyeing that interior I would probably charge around $1000 (which wouldn't solve the mold underneath). That with what others have said about possible mechanical probs. Throw it back in the water. But it did make for an interesting thread.
 
i think it's best not to mess with it, I haven't bought it because I wasn't sure if was safe to mess with.

And with carfax I've tried to buy a "VIN check" but I can't, it's USA only and I'm not from the USA.
 
You're gonna spend way more on fixing that interior than if you just paid more for one in good shape. Once mold gets a foot hold in a car like that, even after you replace the *entire* interior, there's a good chance it'll come back, especially if you live in a humid area.



I agree with everyone else: it's a flood car, and not worth fifty bucks to tow it to the junk yard.
 
God, the leather is the least of your problems. You'd have to gut the dash, seats, floorboard to have any chance of getting rid of the SMELL. Don't touch it.
 
You aren't gonna get the mold out of the inside of the seats. Ehh. I wouldn't buy it unless you can find some new/used VW leather seats to replace those. You could probably clean and kill all the mold on the carpet and hard surfaces but I wouldn't buy the car unless you can completely replace all the seating.



EDIT: Yeah.. yeah.. just forget about it :sadwavey:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top