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Leather seats need attention

philippe

philippe

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Hello
A mate has just bought a 964 and the leather seats need some attention they are a light cream colour. I am based Cambridge way? could you recommend someone who is good at doing reverb work ? Doesn’t have to be local.


Thanks Phil
 
Recommend you buy some Gliptone(liquid leather) and recondition/ refurbished yourself its not that difficult needs a few hours over a couple of days and probably 5 maybe 6 coats for linen, this gives you a nice soft leather. I always applied with about 1 inch wide sponge cut from a kitchen sponge.
If you go to a reconditioned you will probably end up with reconnollisong which is a spray job and I find from experience intakes the seats hard.

 
just for general feedback until few years ago i'd never done anything except clean leather etc but i too used Gliptone scuffmaster all in one leather dye on my old TVR seats and recently just done my steering wheel and gear knob and handbrake with bespoke leathering Ltd all in one dye , it s a sealer all in one so is a simple process ive done over 1000 miles since and it's perfect and i did over 10k on TVR seats and they were great too my only advice is the leather has to be very very clean i used an all purpose cleaner (bilt hamer surfex HD) and scrubbed them well plenty of vids on youtube , i then used small sponge and you have to dab (not wipe) on the dye then use a hair dryer as this cures it i did about 4-5 coats and even someone as hamfisted as me did a good job and came out brill !

bespoke leathering ltd Tamworth can match you Porsche leather colour i just told them what i had and they mixed it for me £20 ! there on ebay too and say once dry it will not transfer onto clothes and is a sealer all in one !

so wish i had taken before and after of the 996 steering wheel etc but they were grimy and the the outer steering was black (meant to be grey ) and had lost its colour and it looked awful 30 mins later "job done"


 
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