I’ve got leather seats that look like they have been dyed or coated in some sort of aftermarket colour restorer by the previous owner to make them look more black. But now that stuff if coming off in certain patches and other areas won't come off despite cleaning.

 

Anybody know what it is?

 

Does anybody know of anything that will remove it?

 

I've done a search on previous posts and found this stuff

http://www.liquidleather.com

anybody used it before to remove this “stuff”

 

Yours hoping :confused:

 

Mark

:(

Knew it was there somewhere.....

 

HTH.

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16976&highlight=leather

 

Ah this is probably the post you found! :rolleyes: Maybe better off doing the whole lot again.

Cheers james300.

 

I've got no problem doing the whole lot, but not sure what's the best product to use. I'm not directly replenishing the leather, more sort of removing crap that's been applied to blacken the leather.

 

The stuff that's on there looks like it could be some sort of varnish or platic coating, applied as a liquid with a brush. Anybody know any common products used to colour the leather like this. If so what removes it?

 

 

Cheers

Mark

Hi Mark,

 

I'm just having a seat partially recovered. The guy said that a special leather spray paint/dye is often used to colour the leather and he'd probably have to get one to make mine match. If it's applied too heavily it looks crap - sounds like what has happened to yours unless someone went the cheap route and just got some plain old spray paint!

 

For general cleaning I use some turtle wax leather cleaning wipes - they're ok but they won't remove your dye.

 

Cheers!

RobH

 

Cheers for that. I will have to get some pic's just to show this but the dye job was not a profesional set, or they had a realy REALY bad day!

 

I would be interested if things go bad and/or I can't get the stuff off, what a seat recovering would cost.

What are you having done and how much is it going to set you bacK?

 

 

Hopefully it won't get to that!

 

Mark

Hi Mark, not cheap !! I'm having one cheek of the drivers seat recovered (the one that wears from the rubbing from getting in and out of the car - upright lower RHS) it's costing £50 + £10 if he has to use a colour matched spray to get a perfect match. On the plus side I get to keep the spray to touch up any imperfections on the rest of the seats...

 

Had a couple of quotes round about the same price.

 

HTH!

 

RobH

Hi Mark

http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/ I suggest you get in touch with these people. You have to send them a swatch of you leather and they will match the colour and supply you with a leather replenishing kit. These are the people that the car valeters use and come highly recomended.

Regards

Ady

These are the people that I reccomend in my post. There is nothing they don't know about leather restoration! ...and have been around for like a million years. Some old boy will answer the phone that has spent all his life renovating interiors and wil give you all the time and advice in the world- thats the kind of place it is.

Cheers Guys

 

I'll give 'em a call when the next pay cheq comes in....