what do you use for your leather seats
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what do you use for your leather seats
as the title, what do you use or recommend for the leather seats maintenance?
i wanna use menguiars, do you recoomend another one?
i wanna use menguiars, do you recoomend another one?
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On real leather and vinyl(leatherette...aka GM) I have never had a problem washing the seats down once a month with distilled water and Mr. Clean w/fabreeze mixed at 1/1 . Dont use tap water , spring water or anything but distilled ...the no minerals or basically anything in distilled . I will soak the seat down with water n cleaner and used a brush that wnt scratch the leather ( meguirs one is GOOD ) , then wipe the seats down with clean distilled water and microfiber to get all the cleaner off and let them air dry and let the water soak into the leather . If your wrinkles arent to bad the leather as it dries will stretch and alot of those wrinkles will disappear . If its real leather I will use Keri lotion from time to time . I cannot stand the shine almost all products for leather leave . The way I do it leaves the seats with the same satin sheen as when new . Alot of the lotions on the market actually over time accelerate the wear of leather , the shinyness absorbs more sunrays . And dont ever use anything with silicone in it on any interior surface .
My methods are a lil unorthadox from whats typical but it works wonders for me . Pics are of Cobalt SS seats . In the 1st pic , they started out saturated with leather lotion and wrinkled looking and shiny . The 2nd 2 pics are cleaned up . The very last pic of the seats in the car , not bad for 4 yr old seats in a 86K mile car that use HORRIBLY cheap leatherette . I had the same results restoring the ebony pleather seats in my buddies SS .
My methods are a lil unorthadox from whats typical but it works wonders for me . Pics are of Cobalt SS seats . In the 1st pic , they started out saturated with leather lotion and wrinkled looking and shiny . The 2nd 2 pics are cleaned up . The very last pic of the seats in the car , not bad for 4 yr old seats in a 86K mile car that use HORRIBLY cheap leatherette . I had the same results restoring the ebony pleather seats in my buddies SS .
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If my seats are dirty, I will wipe them off with window cleaner and then use Meguiars leather conditioner, makes them have that shiny brand new look and they feel smoother.