Anyone got useful tips on products for cleaning then conditioning leather- have heard that detergent-free soap is good for cleaning; is this the same as saddle-soap?

Try search, Woolies.

 

Paul

Depends what leather you're going to restore and how far you are going to do it. I will shortly be carrying out a refurb on my old-skool momo wheel to make it look factory fresh.

 

Best thing to do is to take front and rear seats out of the car. Wipe them down with a mild leather cleaner and then use a leather degreaser to release all the inground oils. Once you have a clean dry base to work from, you can then set about recolouring them with correct leather dye. When the dye has been absorbed and dried, you can then attend to them with a lacquer. Lacquering is part of the manufacturing process of leathers and this process can be redone. You can get correct kits. Make sure you get an air brush. You can order a matte lacquer too which will give you an OEM look to it.

 

Befores, using that process.

 

Afters

 

 

Again, some more...

 

Before...

 

 

After cleaning, re-dying....and here shown lacquering.

 

 

Complete...

 

Thanks for that Funkiysi- bit more than I need actually- just going to clean then recondition- no need to dye or lacquer as they are not too worn.