restoring leather

[Jay_gee]

Hi all,

just bought some leather seats for me car and need to get something to restore them with.

I have seen some posts regarding liquid leather but I am not too sure which one to go for. The leather I have needs to be dyed as there are some signs of heavy wearing, as well as a good old clean to bring back to their former glory.

I have seen something called Buffalo Essential repair kit on ebay. Has anyone used this before and is it any good or is Gliptone the stuff to go for? The Buffalo stuff is £30, just wanted to make sure if was the right thing before I ordered it.

Hope someone can help.

Cheers,
J

[bmwe30mtech]

Jason, give them a wash with fairly liquid and water, thenlet them dry and dye them black, all over and evenly.

Then, use gliptone liquid leather. The seats you saw in my car got this treatment.

HTH

Paul

[Jay_gee]

cheers Paul. Manage to get one of the seats to tilt forward last night with some extra persuasion .

Just thought I'd see if anyone else has used anything else and would recommend it.

J

[DaveD]

i have used glyptone in the past and it has produced reasonably good results on black but am thinking of trying this for a project

http://furnitureclinic.co.uk/Leather_Colourant_Kit.htm

[bmwe30mtech]

Good work j. The mecanisms are the same as standard seats as far as i know, so it may be worth while just putting new mechanisms on them?! Hope it goes well.

[stuartgallafant]

what do you dye them with paul?

[bmwe30mtech]

Stu, i bought a dye off ebay, a bit like boot polish. My seats didnt actually need it, but as i had some left over from another set i used some. Its works fairly well, needs working in well though.

[stuartgallafant]

do you remember what its called?

[bmwe30mtech]

Its not on there anymore, the guy used to have a business making it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-LEATHER-DYE-1 ... dZViewItem

Try that instead maybe???

[maxfield]

my dad used bufalo leather treatmen off ebay top quality stuff

[cliffybabe]

i got a dye kit off a ebay firm to they even ask year mofel and make to ensure the dye was correct for the seat (mind u still havent done mine yet )

[stuartgallafant]

yeah, neil, can i try a bit of yours?

[cliffybabe]

yeah, neil, can i try a bit of yours?

yep as soon as i have

[stuartgallafant]

we should do it together!!! :winkeye:

[cliffybabe]

we should do it together!!! :winkeye:

ok then

[daimlerman]

I used a Gliptone kit to tidy a set of biege(I call it tan)comfort leather I bought for the 2.7.I was so pleased with the result I bought a second kit for the Daimlers rear seat.Once again I was well pleased.First class service from Gliptone,well written instructions,good product.Recommended.