moonstone
Tyre Kicker
I've been a Gliptone Liquid Leather man for years but finally moved away from it after realising to use the cleaner and conditioner properly is a bit of a faff and if you don't use it properly you really don't get much a of a benefit. On top of that the conditioner is really just feeding product back into the leather to make it shiny (modern leather is "painted" so you can't get it to absorb conditioner. This seems to be something where info is lacking on car groups).
Then someone recommended Dr Leather Wiipes. These are really good, dead easy to use but only really useful for maintenance in my opinion.
Then a while back I read about folk using Pears Soap. I thought surely this can't be any good? A bar of soap for 99p, this is going to be rubbish. How wrong I was. It is THE best method I've ever come across from bringing leather back up to scratch and restoring a new, matt finish. Results speak for themselves:
Before:
After:
To be fair, I used a steam cleaner as well but I've used this on leather before and the results have been nothing like this. All that was needed was a bar of Pears Soap and a stiff brush with plenty of water. No need to take your seats out the car by the way. I had them out for something else at the same time.
Then someone recommended Dr Leather Wiipes. These are really good, dead easy to use but only really useful for maintenance in my opinion.
Then a while back I read about folk using Pears Soap. I thought surely this can't be any good? A bar of soap for 99p, this is going to be rubbish. How wrong I was. It is THE best method I've ever come across from bringing leather back up to scratch and restoring a new, matt finish. Results speak for themselves:
Before:
After:
To be fair, I used a steam cleaner as well but I've used this on leather before and the results have been nothing like this. All that was needed was a bar of Pears Soap and a stiff brush with plenty of water. No need to take your seats out the car by the way. I had them out for something else at the same time.