If I must Leatherique in the Winter, then How?

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Happy New Year's Eve everyone! I know that Leatherique does not work as well in the cold as it does during the warmer seasons, but I must do it now. My question is: How long do I use the blow dryer for? Before I continue with my question, here's what I'm working with:
2010 Acura TSX
Kansas City Winter
A heated garage, but only ~70 degrees

I do not want to use a blow dryer on my entire car's interior. I know that TSX's aren't all leather, so am I correct in saying that Leatherique RO is pointless on vinyl? If so, I would only apply the Leatherique RO on the perforated seat sections, steering wheel, and shifter knob (And anything else if anyone knows what else is leather).
From what I have read, wrapping the coated leather in a black trash bag and using a blow dryer is the effective way of working the RO in. So yeah, how long do I use the blow dryer for and if you all have comments I'd greatly appreciate them too.
 
I would guess, to think of your leather interior like your hair, a living thing.

In other words, you don't want to "heat gun" in such a product where your seats are literally smoking from the heat! LOL

The other alternative? Maybe just run to Wally World, buy a bottle of lexol for now, which will be easier to work, and if your leather interior is that "starving for help", this might hold you off in the meantime.
Mark
 
If your garage is 70° you should be fine. The key is to make sure the interior of the car isn't cool to the touch. Maybe park it in the drive and run the heater to warm the interior, even turn on the seat heaters.

Then pull it in the garage, quickly close the door and let the garage come back up to temp. (I'll use a floor fan to move air from the kitchen to the garage to take the chill off during the winter.)

After 30 minutes to an hour go back to the garage and if the seats don't feel cool to the touch you should be fine. If they do, just run the heaters for a bit, perhaps while you sit in them, (one at a time). Once you work the product in good you'll need to make sure your garage doesn't drop down overnight though. Maybe do it during the morning so it'll gain temp for a while. I know you DO NOT want to be sitting on it afterwards. Noooooo...... it needs to sit for as long as you can let it. Even then you'll want to go over it with a clean white towel once you've let it sit, before you start driving it.
 
Since we're amongst Friends:
Honestly now...What is the real reason that you MUST use Leatherique right at this particular moment?

:confused:

Bob
 
FUNX725 said:
Since we're amongst Friends:
Honestly now...What is the real reason that you MUST use Leatherique right at this particular moment?

:confused:

Bob
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Winter break is about to end, and since I'm not going to take my car up to Lawrence and leave it in the parking lot until the snow goes away, this means my little brother gets to treat it like crap.
I'm cleaning up my crap from my first semester in college.
 
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cardaddy, thanks. Kansas City is expected to get .5" to 2" of snow today (1/1/2014) but my side of the garage is long so I should be able to open the door without any worries about snow.
 
apply leatherique, cover seats in dry towels
warm towels in hot water, wring out almost dry
change out towels every 15-20 minutes until your done.
 
conman1395 said:
Winter break is about to end, and since I'm not going to take my car up to Lawrence and leave it in the parking lot until the snow goes away, this means my little brother gets to treat it like crap.
I'm cleaning up my crap from my first semester in college.
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Hey...
Don't be so hard on your little Brother if he craps-up your vehicle while you're off to school,
if you can't keep your vehicle from being crappy, yourself.

That's a pretty good deal that your Brother has with your vehicle...driving privileges, et al.
After all: It is your vehicle, isn't it?
 
Very Simple...Get a heat gun! Porter Cable makes one. A good hairdryer will also work. I use this method even when its hot out because its way quicker than waiting for the sun to heat the oil into the seats.
 
conman1395 said:
cardaddy, thanks. Kansas City is expected to get .5" to 2" of snow today (1/1/2014) but my side of the garage is long so I should be able to open the door without any worries about snow.
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Not the snow I was worried about, it was the drop in temp opening the door to get the car inside. ;) I know my garage is so freaking big it takes FOREVER to heat it up. :rolleyes:

Ah, Kansas City eh'? My oldest Godson taught at the university up until last year. Now he's in Tampa. Talk about a CHANGE of weather! :eek: (Of course he left Atlanta for KC 5 years ago, and once he was getting used to it, sunny weather called.) ;)
 
FUNX725 said:
Hey...
Don't be so hard on your little Brother if he craps-up your vehicle while you're off to school,
if you can't keep your vehicle from being crappy, yourself.

That's a pretty good deal that your Brother has with your vehicle...driving privileges, et al.
After all: It is your vehicle, isn't it?
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Yeah it's mine paid in full, but my parents pay for my tuition so I do as they say. At least it's only a few months (hopefully).
 
dabirdz said:
apply leatherique, cover seats in dry towels
warm towels in hot water, wring out almost dry
change out towels every 15-20 minutes until your done.
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Isn't the choice of a plastic trash bag to let the RO soak in to the seats? Although I definitely see the advantage of changing warm towels out to keep the heat.
 
Tools17 said:
May I ask what is Leatherique?
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Ok so I answered my own question but I was reading and it mentioned vinyl tops and such.

Could one put this on vinyl seats? Has anyone tried this?
 
Well yes and no. My TSX has some leather and some vinyl parts but I just put both Rejuvinator Oild and Pristine clean on it all. An all vinyl interior wouldn't benefit from the RO, but it would be cleaned well with the Pristine Clean. The problem with using it with PC is it's too expensive and other cheaper products exist that will achieve the same results (faster too).

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