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| adrian` |
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just curious.... what is the best product to use to clean and condition leather seats??? i pulled my seats out of the fairmont last weekend and iv been cleanin flat out since then but cant seem to get all the grim and shine out of the leather.
im slowly but surly getting the leather a little bit softer, but is there any possible way to get it soft fast? or is it just bad luck cos the people who bought the car from new never considered conditioning the leather? any help would be great
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| kezz |
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swap them with my velour seats. say goodbye to all the hard work for no result cleanin leather... sorry mate only thing i can think of his elbow grease and warm soapy water
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| adrian` |
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hahaha yea no worries kezz, ill pay for postage too
i got no elbow grease left... my arms have been worked to much this week
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| twirqurky |
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Just keep working on it. Ford leather is quite ard at first so itll take some tme.
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| kizzer |
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i 2 would like to know.
someone told me to use maguires glod class leather cream. but i dont think it does s**t ey. so i stopped using it and started using using those armoural wipes. if anyones got tips hell us out lol. PLEASE 
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| adrian` |
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well iv just about polished off a full bottle of meguires gold class rich leather cleaner/conditioner and its not all that much better then before
dont get me wrong it is working, but its very very slow. just about to go buy some more interior stuff now, might grab some of the auto glym leather stuff.. the other products by them seem to be pretty good ill let you all know how things go by the end of the week (when i put my seats back in, i never noticed how much more comfortable the fairmont ghia seats were to my old gli ones )
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| Rapier |
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dont wanna disappoint a lot of people but the reason is probably got something to do with the fact that the seats arent genuine leather they are a blen of vynil and leather. on the real nice models got the good stuff ltd's fbt's and EL GT's is what if been told
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| adrian` |
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well i no the main part on the back of the two front seats is vynil and the the sides of the fold down arm rest for the back seat are also vinal
well thats what it feels like anyway
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| samftr |
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Rapier - we call that “pleatherâ€. LOL, it’s off a plastic cow. China has these you know! HAHA
Actually, to clean leather, get yourself a shoe polish brush. The type they sell at Woolworths is fine. The black bristled one does the job. Now you need leather cleaner and something called elbow grease. I think that’s sold at Bunning’s at ten bucks an hour. : P You can be fairly hard on the leather with the brush too. Warm water works on body fat that’s not too ingrained. So long as when you have finished you nourish the leather with some conditioner. I work with leather lounge suites at work, and leather gets dirty very quickly with body oils from hair and skin etc. doesn’t matter how clean you are your skin has acid and oils in it naturally and these eat leather and destroy it over time. Bit of T.L.C. here makes it last a hell of a long time If you guys get stuck for some cleaner I can get hold of some stuff from bulls leather care in brisbane for yas.
hope this helps, Sambo[/b]
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| adrian` |
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well.... i just finished for another night of work with some extremely cheap elbow grease and i went and bought some auto glym leather products and hmmm not to happy about them
my leather is left very shiny and greasy... hoping that it is ment to be like that and then sorta dry up or soak into the leather sam.... i think you should have a holiday an come on down to mildura an clean my seats for me 
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| kezz |
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well adrian my offer for the trade is still on the table. it will however, be retracted as of midnight tonight....
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| adrian` |
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damm it kezz... imissed that post last night, i wetn to bed to soon
to think i could have had some nice and easy velour seats to clean in stead of these horrible leather ones
dont worrie, there only half leather. im half with ya in material. but these are sooooo much more comfy
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| samftr |
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jees ill swap yas my gli cloth seats :O
yeah ill have a holiday he he. ps when leather is shiney (generally if it started off not shiney) its dirty. I can spot it dead easy because I work with the stuff. Hmmz, mildura. Long a** drive from here LOL.
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| gryph |
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Anyone know anything about the leather restore/color changing stuff u see round on the net. They have some good b4 and after shots but im just a little bit suss on whether they actually work or not...
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| samftr |
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well we had a lounge suite that came in and the customer had not cleaned it in four years or something like that. so what was done was the leather was thoroughly cleaned, by this I mean straight leather cleaner squirted on it and rubbed in then scrubbed with a leather brush, then dried then sanded - yes - fine sandpaper, then they rubbed colour into it and dried with a hairdryer. after that the excess colour was wiped off and the end result was pretty good. I'm not certain as to what they used dye wise etc, but did the job well
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