Looking after leather

[inconsistant]

The leather seats in the Ovlov are a bit cracked and no longer look their best. They're not damaged, they just look sort of characterful with lots of surface marks and cracks but OK until you compare them with the back seats and it's clear they need a bit of love.

 

This stuff:

 

https://www.eco-touch.co.uk/products/leather-care

 

...looks interesting, I'm keen to use non chemical stuff where I can. 

We'd like to spruce up our leather sofa too so something we could use on car and sofa would be great, obvs without it coming off on clothes and that. 

 

Anyone used it?

 

Or can recommend something else good? 

 

Thanks!

[Anthony]

I've used Gliptone Liquid Leather numerous times in the past with reasonable success - smells lovely too.

[barefoot]

Plus eleventy on liquid leather.

I've got a bottle in the map pocket thing behind the drivers seat in the Jaaaaaag

With the lid off because it smells so good.

[Jifflemon]

Another plus for liquid leather. Won't use anything else.

[Timewaster]

I use to use liquid leather to keep my motorbike telly tubby outfit supple.

 

When I used to lift share with a mate who had a very shonky jag sov. I could tell when he had been at the auto glym leather care. The seats were much softer for a week or two.

Another mate had a Senator and the plasticky leather in that didn't respond to a feed at all.

[purplebargeken]

Modern moo is surface sealed unlike older moo which was more porous.

[SiC]

Any ideas of how to fix split leather back together again? A couple of stitches in it?

 

Saab drivers seat is pretty darn worn!

[Dead_E23]

I bought some of this leather balsam in an agricultural store and thought myself very clever because it was so cheap.

Then I discovered it made the car stink like a public toilet for about 2 weeks.    That aside, it worked brilliantly...

[Des]

Neatsfoot oil. Anything else is just very wrong.

[anonymous user]

I thought that neatsfoot rotted the stitching also it's very cruel to neats

[steveo3002]

Modern moo is surface sealed unlike older moo which was more porous.

 

yeah much like a painted surface , so creams and jollops wont soak in and reverse the ageing /cracks

 

wipe down with damp cloth is all it needs ...

[matt79]

Found this site whilst looking for leather cleaning & repair kits (I need to repair some small scuffs & splits in the side bolster of my drivers seat) -

 

https://www.furnitureclinic.co.uk/Applications.php?apid=2

 

They sell quite a few kits for cleaning, repairing & recolouring aged & damaged leather seats. There are also 'how to' videos on how to use the products, ideal for ham fisted oafs like myself!

[inconsistant]

Thanks for all the advices folks. I've ordered this:

 

Gliptone Leather Cleaner Conditioner GT12 GT11, 2 x Cloths and 2 Pads Kit £14.43

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gliptone-Leather-Cleaner-Conditioner-GT12-GT11-2-x-Cloths-and-2-Pads-Kit-/141787153721?hash=item21032c4539:g:4KgAAOSwxN5WWaHM

 

I'll let you know how it goes on, works and smells.

[r.welfare]

I've used that pair for a few years on the leather interior on my wife's car, does a good job. Good price as well.

[toejam]

/\   /\   I used it too,  on faded black  plastic bumpers , funnily enough it didn't work !

 

It did clean them though .

 

Saddle soap on faded red paint works , it's the glycerin. 

 

Neatsfoot oil is really for harness type leather , you wouldn't want to wear a white shirt ,and sit on it  after . 

[inconsistant]

Would glycerine bring up black plastic & bumpers & 80s rubber spoilers etc then?

It's £1 a bottle at the chemist so would be cheaper than branded trim cleaners.

[Jerzy Woking]

Would glycerine bring up black plastic & bumpers & 80s rubber spoilers etc then?

It's £1 a bottle at the chemist so would be cheaper than branded trim cleaners.

Boiled Linseed Oil is brilliant for bumpers and plastics-a £2 bottle goes a long way. WORD OF CAUTION-rags used to apply it can spontaneously combust is they are not laid out flat to dry.

 

I purchased 5 litres of Turtle Wax leathere cleaner and conditioner from a link on this thread somewhere. Less than £20 on ebay and it is really good-despite me cleaning the Saab seats last week with Gliptone,this stuff got more dirt out and the seats look lighter in colour. And smells good too.