Has anyone used black shoe polish to sort out the cracks on the leather trim before? I've heard it mentioned before but just curious to see if anyone has been successful with it, and whether it comes off on your clothes after lol :scared:

Someone said the same to me only yesterday - I'd be interested to hear peoples views.

Don't use shoe polish but you can use shoe leather dye.

Works well.

Much better ways of getting your seats looking new if you buy the correct products.

 

Best thing to do is to first start with a leather degreaser. Soak out all the oils and fats. Then re-dye before re-lacquering (with matte leather lacquer...the same process used during the manufacturing process of leather). Shoe polish will cover up the crack marks but it'll leave your seats very highly polished....like the seats from a Ford Granada Taxi cab.

 

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...

 

Try this place http://www.expresspaints.co.uk/catalog/

Has anyone used black shoe polish to sort out the cracks on the leather trim before? I've heard it mentioned before but just curious to see if anyone has been successful with it, and whether it comes off on your clothes after lol :scared:

 

I recently used the Scuff Coat type dye for shoes, it dries very quickly but might be best to leave for 12 hours and then buff up. It totally transformed my seats for a few quid and 20 mins work!

A company called Woolies do renovation products.

 

Paul

are the cream seats from an etype?

thanks for your input guys, I'll post up the results once I get some chemicals! :)

I recently used the Scuff Coat type dye for shoes, it dries very quickly but might be best to leave for 12 hours and then buff up. It totally transformed my seats for a few quid and 20 mins work!

 

I did that on my red Z!! there was light scuffing to the driver's bolster (the previous owner was a big fella...). So I used the black scuff coat (after cleaning with a leather shampoo), left it to dry over night then finished it with Autoglym leather cleaner/conditioner. It worked brilliantly!! Of course, the leather was in sound condition anyway apart from some light scuffing - but a good result for little money and effort....

 

I believe the Woolies kits produce excellent results of the leather needs a bit more work. I have also used the Gliptone kit, back when I had a 1974 Jag, and that was pretty good as well. It was hard work from what I remember though........

 

Richard:cool2:

I've used the Gliptone kit on seats in my 300 & 200. The 200 ones were particularly worn & have come up really well for a cost of about only £40 for entire kit. Easy to do if you follow instructions- takes a while coz there are stages to go through but straightforward & rewarding job.