So I did a second round of leather cleaner. Completely saturated the area and let it set for 2-3 minutes and then scrubbed, then a third scrub and it appears to be off! Pretty dark in the garage tonight and I cannot open the door more than half way to view it with the wife's car in (raining outside) but I think it's clean. Will know for sure tomorrow and will update you if it looks different in the sunlight, hopefully I'm done and no permanent issues will linger from here.
As for the smell of the cockpit sealer, I smelled it again to see if it really was that bad. It is, smells like very strong acetone is the closest thing I can describe it as. Not the nail polish stuff, the more industrial stuff. I cannot believe that would be correct, I doubt you guys would not notice such a smell?
At this point I would love to reapply and try again, but I'm not going to risk it, this is much too expensive of a car to risk a second round of this stuff.
Nick if you'd like to send a prepaid label I can send it in for you to analyze, and if you'd like to send me another bottle I will try it again unless this is really how this stuff is supposed to react to surfaces and how it's supposed to smell? Otherwise a refund would be much appreciated for my trouble. It's the 16oz version and I can provide and invoice # if you want it. I've bought about $500 worth of stuff from autogeek over the past month and so far this is the only big loser of the bunch.
I also have a couple spare bottles I can pour a sample in and mail out to a couple of you experts on here if you want to give it a whiff and compare it to the normal sealant? Nick if auto geek is up for it, just send me the labels and I will be happy to send out the samples to a few folks to compare to what normal cockpit sealant is like and post back. That way we can get multiple people to weigh in. I'd hate to be giving a product a bad wrap when it's just a bad bottle or something.
