Wet Okoles are hard to beat...
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Wet Okoles are hard to beat...
Sent away for some swatches for both the ford and 4runner. No Mossy Oak for me. Except maybe the pink...
Wow Ken that looks great! Want to work on my cars too? :) I'm gonna have to give that a whirl.
Leatherique is not cheap and the only reason why I went with it was because I did some homework on dying leather seats and their leather dyes were purported to be the best. So along with the dye, I bought their cleaning, conditioning, and dye prep products. The process to clean and restore leather was very labor intensive---its meant for seats that weren't taken care of very well. As I recall, you had do some serious scrubbing w/ the cleaner using a lot of paper towels to get the dirt off. I recall taking about 3-4 days for each seat! But man you could tell---night and day. The seats looked like I bought them new (sans a few hard to reach places). Then it was time for the conditioning. So you spread the conditioner on, wrap it up in some kind of plastic bag to keep the heat and moisture from the conditioner in, and let it sit in the hot sun for a few days. Then you remove all of it and then do another cleaning.
Was it worth it? YES. Those seats were so supple I couldn't believe it myself. But I must've botched something on the leather dying---it stuck well in some places, not so well in others. Oh, this was on my BMW 2002 ('76)
The thing that I learned in all this is leather can be saved. As I did a lot of research on leather dying, all writers seemed to say over and over again that "leather is a living, breathing material" and it can be successfully restored with the right products, technique, and patience. Most people when they buy leather and don't take care of it, expect something from Pep Boys to restore it after 1 session of cleaning and conditioning. I fell into that category a while back too :)
Lexol is great product. i've been using it for a quite a long time. i would recommend it too.