Audios S6
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- Oct 12, 2011
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Client contacted me through one of the local forums. Just had new winter tires put on his S4 and the tire shop left grease stains on the driver's seat.
Pretty bad combo of mechanical grease, light colored fabric and alcantara. Alcantara provides some very specific cleaning instruction with very limited options. For grease the option is Ethyl Alcohol, in this case Everclear 95% grain alcohol gently agitated with a MF towel. This was followed with a Leather Masters Nubuck cloth to even out the fabric.
Before
After
I honestly didn't have confidence going into this one and made it clear to the owner that some stains just won't come out and this is a tough one. I wanted to try the alcohol before jumping to a more aggressive dry solvent. It worked on the smallest stain so I stuck with it even though it probably took much longer than another product might have. I spent about 2 hours slowly working each stain. Then finished it with the nubuck cloth, these are great for touching up alcantara.
Pretty bad combo of mechanical grease, light colored fabric and alcantara. Alcantara provides some very specific cleaning instruction with very limited options. For grease the option is Ethyl Alcohol, in this case Everclear 95% grain alcohol gently agitated with a MF towel. This was followed with a Leather Masters Nubuck cloth to even out the fabric.
Before
After
I honestly didn't have confidence going into this one and made it clear to the owner that some stains just won't come out and this is a tough one. I wanted to try the alcohol before jumping to a more aggressive dry solvent. It worked on the smallest stain so I stuck with it even though it probably took much longer than another product might have. I spent about 2 hours slowly working each stain. Then finished it with the nubuck cloth, these are great for touching up alcantara.
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