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Free leather treatment

Tinker

Albert Park
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The source of 'the knowledge'? A leather specialist, who, he says, does a lot of work for Bentley (and there is a big Bentley concession in Leicester).

The treatment? Water. The method? You spray your seats, cards et cetera with a fine mist of water, every day for a week, and then once a fortnight.

The next day, you wipe the leather with a clean cloth and the condensation from the windows.

In summer, you leave a glass of water in the car overnight and when not in use.

Am gonna try it.
 
That does make sense to keep the leather hydrated
 
Aren't most modern leather seats sealed, and therefore won't absorb the water?? :?
 
Most modern leathers are sealed, but only on the outside.
 
GT4 said:
Most modern leathers are sealed, but only on the outside.

:dont know: So what do you advise. Spraying inside the seat?
 
No, continually feed the leather through the perforations and I am guessing follow the advice of this thread, which implies the general humidity within the car will get to the back of the leather - ie permeate through either the perforations or through the seat chassis etc.

I pressume that is why it takes several weeks in a closed car and how a glass of water not even in contact with the seats would help - unless that was meant as a gift to the (supple) leather gods :dont know:
 
I'm not promoting this 'method', only repeating it and trying it.

Having kept horses, because I have a daughter who evented and hunted, both of which are hard on saddles and tack (and rider), I have some experience of leather and its many treatments. Most don't work very well and the ones that do need careful re-application, because used leather dries easily and quickly.

The best I found were Hamanol, by the Swiss-German saddlemaker, Stuebben, and Renapur, a multi-purpose product from Sweden (although the latter can't be used on reins and saddle seats, because some riders find it too slippery).

Even Hamanol, however, which ain't cheap, couldn't stop the surface of leather from wrinkling and then, if not teated attentively, cracking.

The Bentley guy's argument is that the surface of leather, even well-sealed, will wrinkle, dry and eventually crack. ('Look at the bolsters of your seats with a magnifying glass', he said. 'You'll be surprised.') Keeping it hydrated, however, will help the wrinkles not become cracks.

Anyway, he's coming back on the 18th to treat some scuffed and cracked leather - 1970s' Danish furniture - which is being hydrated in the meantime. It'll be interesting to see what he does and uses.
 
I'll give it a go (on the Audi). Althoughthe last time i saw fine water mist being liberally sprayed was when the Trotter family had cause to move those blow up dolls :grin:
 

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