deckster said:maldren said:Looks really good, I'd like to give it a try myself. Which products did you use?
thanks
Mike
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All the products were Gliptone Liquid Leather - mainly their standard ScuffMaster dye, just tell them your interior colour (Graphite Grey here) and they'll mix it up. Colour match is pretty much spot on. I used the same sponge discs I use to wax the car which worked very well - lots of thin coats is the key, as ever. You don't need much - a 250ml bottle did the whole of my interior - front & back seats, doors, seat backs, glovebox, dash, and centre console.
I used their Aquafil leather & vinyl filler for the creases in the seats and the big scratch you can see on the glovebox - again several thin coats and give it a good sanding down with 600+ grit at the end. Then apply the dye over the top as above.
For the plastics I used a modelling paintbrush to carefully fill the chips with ScuffMaster dye, and put a few thin coats over the entire surface using sponge discs again to blend it all in. You can still see that the chips are slightly indented, as frankly I couldn't be bothered to painstakingly fill them all in, but if you don't look for it then you don't notice them. If you look at the after pictures of the seat back and ignition you can see what I mean.
Apart from the dye and filler, I used GT12 intensive cleaner at the start to get all the grime and grease off, and then GT11 leather conditioner at the end.
The longest part of the process is waiting for it all to dry in between coats, but beyond that it's all pretty straightforward. My biggest mistakes were putting the filler on too thickly and then not sanding it down well enough (I have a couple of lumps on the seats where this happened), and then not leaving the final coat long enough to dry before using the leather conditioner. It says 24 hours - I did that and the conditioner took off the last couple of coats of dye, so after re-touching I left it a week before applying any more conditioner which seemed to work better.
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Well done really looks great and well worth the effort.
Will be doing similar with mine when I get the time.