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I started with this.

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and after about three hours ended up with this,

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I followed the instructions in the tech article by Nick Edmondson. I have given myself a skill kid award for services to renovation (basically a can of beer!)

Ian
 
Ive been steeling my will to try this. I have a compressor now so painting should be far easier with a decent airbrush. Which products from which suppliers did you use?

We could do with a more in-depth guide from Nick, including the results of the other products that he was trying out ([;)]).


Simon
 
Excellent! I have some products to do the same with my seat (linen, not blue), and just need to find the time to do it.

No compressor, unfortunately. Will have to make do with brushes. But if it works half as well as that then I'll be very pleased!

Enjoy that beer. It's well-earned.


Oli.
 
great work...

did you use any filler on the cracks / creases or is that just the result of new colour? Did you use an airbrush?

I'm tempted to have a go at my seats now that the bolster has been repaired.
 
I will possibly need filled on my 928 seats. The largest leap of faith required, I think, is when youre about to sand your perfectly good seats...
 
can we have a link to the tech article ?

I've just used Glipstone's liquid leather cleaner on my Jag, with good results.
 
I spent this weekend recolouring my seats. I went with Gliptone products as they knew the colour (linen) and were able to post it the next day. I don't have access to a compressor but the man at Gliptone said not to bother and to use a brush. I bought a good quality 3" brush and used that. I am very pleased with the results:-

Before:

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After:

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I also bought a small kit of black colour from them at the same time and now my steering wheel looks like new as well!
 
I should take the plunge, as my Prototypo steering wheel isnt sealed and any moisture makes it sticky! Typically Italian - it looks and feels nicer unsealed, but its hopelessly impractical.
 
My wheel is a little worn to say the least so would the same products used on a seat have the same effect on wheel?
 

ORIGINAL: Copperman05

If its sticky a decent leather cleaner should do the tick...


Edd
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I tried that Edd! Thats how I found out that it wasnt sealed... It isnt sticky, its smooth and soft, but wet hands make it tacky and the cleaner immediately made it sticky and started to lift the dye. Left to dry it reverted to its current state.

I think that I will fit a standard (363mm) lozenge in the mean time.


Simon
 
Hi guys below are a couple of pictures. the first shows the kit that you buy from furniture clinic which comes with a mini spray gun and propellant (works very well) cleaner, leather finish/varnish/sealer (semi matt in my case) and leather food for later. I got my dye from dynamix on advice from Nick Edmundson who wrote the technical article, his opinion was the dye worked better than others and had my colour (worked very well for me).

basically you clean the seats well, then using the sponge you apply dye (three coats, dries quick or you can help it along with a hair dryer or similar) you then apply three coats with the spray to give a really smooth and consistent finish. Then two or three coats of varnish/sealer. Leave to dry overnight and then skill kid awards all round. Couple of weeks later feed it with the food.

I didn't feel any of the creases needed filling so pretty straightforward for me.

The propellant in the can did the two seats, just.

Loads of dye left and also loads of varnish.

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