White/cream leather

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tnoy66

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Hello to anybody who remembers me :)



I'm getting a new car next Feb and I'm thinking about a custom leather retrim. The colour I'm planning is either an off-white or cream.



I have a simple question, how difficult are these colours to maintain and keep clean :confused:



It will be a daily driver and I'm worried that after 12 months the drivers seat might start looking a bit mucky.



I have the autoglym leather cleaner, autoglym leather conditioner and the 1Z leather care. I don't really want to be buying more products.



All help and advice appreciated.

Tony:)
 
Hi,



I have the autoglym leather cleaner and used it on beige audi leather that was about 8 years old. My findings were that it made the leather smell good and pulled up a little dirt, but most "wear" was still left in the leather and it looked dirty. Woolite cleans well from what I've heard to clean leather (I don't know about heavy wear and dirt) and the dilution on that is 1 parts woolite to 6 parts water. So the main thing is to not let the leather come to a point where it is worn out and doesn't look good. Just MAINTAIN it by cleaning it about once a month with autoglym, and condition it every month and a half or two months and you should be good.
 
The pix below is my interior .. I also maintain a 04 Caddy with biege leather.. I use the above mentioned Woolite 6:1 on both.



My car has 30,000 miles on it and I clean the front seats once a month and treat with *The Tannery*. It still looks like in the pix and I don't pay it any special daily attention nor do I get in with greasy dirty coveralls.



The Caddy is owned by a lawyer and his gets dirtier than mine and the 6:1 works fine .



Just respect it and it will be fine . Biggest issue I have is the seat belt getting dirty and I have to get after that.







Interior
 
I think one idea would be to get a seat cover ie snap on type.

Keep it in the glovebox just in case.

I think making sure you use terry towels to remove the products you are using would help too.

It will be dirt/grit that will wear the leather more than anthing else.



Mark
 
OK, just been to the trimmer this afternoon and I've decided to go with the following style



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So cleaning and maintaining won't be too bad as the white is limited, also it won't be a bright white, but more vanilla :cool:



I'd forgotten about the woolite, thank you for that :)



Oh, and the steering wheel will be on the CORRECT side :p
 
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