pixelmonkey
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- Sep 9, 2010
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it's always nice when your perception of what the "best" thing you can do to the leather seats in your car is corrected.
it's even better when that correction proves to be one of the greatest things you could have discovered when it comes to old leather seats!
*photos to come tuesday or wednesday. the weather isnt all that nice in Oklahoma at the moment*
2004 Subaru Forester with Black leather seats.
I've been using Lexol on the seats for the last year and was happy how much cleaner the seats appeared, but was disappointed in the quality of leather used. The seats were like large hard sheets of cardboard.
I had read a few reviews of the Leatherique rejuvinator oil and was curious. The claims of the seats being "leather glove soft" and/or "like new seats" pointed me to the direction of each claim being a sales pitch for the product. THEY WERE NOT LYING!
Thursday evening
- vacuum the seats and focus on the sewn seams
- cleaned the seats using lexol. *have not yet purchased the "Leatherique Prestine Clean"
- round 2 of cleaning the seats, i wanted to be sure there was no dirt color transfer to the towels.
Friday morning
- forecast high was 84 degrees. coated the seats at 10:00AM
- windows up, car locked after application. *sun shade open*
Saturday morning
- forecast high was 82 degrees. added another coat to the seats, as the first batch had soaked in completely and I could tell the seats were starting to soften.
- windows up, car locked.
Sunday
- mother nature throws a curve and the high was reached at 12:00AM *midnight* at 58 degrees. The daytime high only made it to 52 degrees.
- stopped raining in the evening, so the leatherique had been on the seats for over 55 hours.
- bucket of warm-hot water and a mf towl moist used to wipe down the seats.
After the first seat bottom, the bottom of the bucket was no longer visible.
After the front seats were wiped clean, any object was no longer visible 2 inches below the surface.
The seats have major improvements! I'm thinking I'll treat them again to soften the bottom and supporting backrest in June or July when the temp is a bit higher.
thank you autogeek!
chris<pixelmonkey>
it's even better when that correction proves to be one of the greatest things you could have discovered when it comes to old leather seats!
*photos to come tuesday or wednesday. the weather isnt all that nice in Oklahoma at the moment*
2004 Subaru Forester with Black leather seats.
I've been using Lexol on the seats for the last year and was happy how much cleaner the seats appeared, but was disappointed in the quality of leather used. The seats were like large hard sheets of cardboard.
I had read a few reviews of the Leatherique rejuvinator oil and was curious. The claims of the seats being "leather glove soft" and/or "like new seats" pointed me to the direction of each claim being a sales pitch for the product. THEY WERE NOT LYING!
Thursday evening
- vacuum the seats and focus on the sewn seams
- cleaned the seats using lexol. *have not yet purchased the "Leatherique Prestine Clean"
- round 2 of cleaning the seats, i wanted to be sure there was no dirt color transfer to the towels.
Friday morning
- forecast high was 84 degrees. coated the seats at 10:00AM
- windows up, car locked after application. *sun shade open*
Saturday morning
- forecast high was 82 degrees. added another coat to the seats, as the first batch had soaked in completely and I could tell the seats were starting to soften.
- windows up, car locked.
Sunday
- mother nature throws a curve and the high was reached at 12:00AM *midnight* at 58 degrees. The daytime high only made it to 52 degrees.
- stopped raining in the evening, so the leatherique had been on the seats for over 55 hours.
- bucket of warm-hot water and a mf towl moist used to wipe down the seats.
After the first seat bottom, the bottom of the bucket was no longer visible.
After the front seats were wiped clean, any object was no longer visible 2 inches below the surface.
The seats have major improvements! I'm thinking I'll treat them again to soften the bottom and supporting backrest in June or July when the temp is a bit higher.
thank you autogeek!
chris<pixelmonkey>
