Recolour/Feed of Leather Seats

[park01]

Hi can anybody recommend a colouring product/feed for leather seats in buck skin(Cream) from personal experience. Their do seem to be a lot of different types on the market.

[Deleted]

I used Woolies buckskin kit (16717) and the accompanying conolly hide food all to good effect. The only thing is that the dye is no good on vinyl,though a vinyl dye is available. My seats were done around a year ago and didn't look plasticy and just painted when done(which a few dyes can give). I'd use this kit again.
Gary Craig

[David]

I've used the Gliptone range. If all you are doing is restoring the colour, rather than recolouring, this works great and if applied correctly does not give that just painted look.

The name of it is Liquid Leather 'Scuff Coat'. Comes in a small bottle with smaller bottles of tints and applicators. Should be enough to 'de-scuff' a pair of seats. Cost is around £12.

Conditioner is excellent too - smells of leather.

[dorsetflyer]

As David says, 'Gliptone' products are very good. I found their colouring was spot on for Buckskin without any need to alter the shade. The idea is to colour in the cracks which become permanently coloured rather than trying to paint the whole area.
If you to see their website go to

www.liquidleather.com/

[John Stacey]

I used Woolies about 8 years ago. The leather was quite hard and there were some very heavy stains requiring several THIN coats of dye.
Get the whole kit, cleaner,feed, dye and sealant, £33.00 2 seat kit was quite enough. The effect is excellant and has lasted 8 years of "daily" use.

John Stacey (Bristol)

[RichardF]

Guys, Sorry to seem thick about this. But, what do you mean by leather "feed". I have just received the Woolies catalogue but it doesn't mention feed anywhere in the kits. Can I take it "feed" means "rejuvinator"?

Thanks

RichardF

[Allan NZ P5b]

I am going down the leatherique process at present.
I have all the leather restitched and seats refoamed and back on the car.
www.leatherique.com/
So far there rejuvenator oil and pristine clean have performed miracles I would not have believed.
So I have sent a sample of leather off for the Dye. And while waiting have started removing the old dye colorant with thinners. Removing the old dye is a revelation the hand of the leather improved dramatically and it had already improved hugely with the rejuvenator oil. A lot of the cracks I thought were in the leather were only in the coating. While the car looks a mess with the old dye taken off to the leather in most places except close to seams and pleats. So far all the leatherique people have said would happen has. So I am confident the rest will go smoothly. Since the respray my goals with the interior have risen dramatically and I wont be happy with much less than a perfect interior. I should be complete in about 3 weeks so will repost with pics only have before pics at present. A lot of work but the hard bits are now done (restitching split seems by hand and disassembly of the interior plus softening and conditioning and old dye removal) I think the result will be worth it, With out the reconstruction work my car interior required the actual leatherique process is not too bad. It does take big balls to take to your old coating with thinners and a scotch bright but the feel of the leather without the old hard cellulose coating is amazing and the new acrylic dye is supposed to remain soft and breath.
www.ferrariclub.com/faq/leatherdye.html
www.fca-se.org/conc_11.htm