Bone Leather - Recommend a product

[Danspeed1]

Up until now, I have run across cars with very clean interiors and bad exteriors. Now I have a Bone colored leather interior that needs some help.



I see a few threads with people using Woolite 1:6, 1:4. What other products are highly recommended to take black grime out of white/tan/bone colored leather seats?



Also, what product do you guys recommend as a conditioner? I don`t care much for gloss or slick seats you slide off of, I am more concerned about protection and softness.



Dan

[mrgoochio]

What kind of car and do you know what type of leather it is?

[Danspeed1]

02 Taurus SES



In the future, I will clean my 96 Impala seats which are very light grey.



I have absolutely no idea what type of leather. Not to sound stupid, but i didn`t even know there was more than one type?????



DG

[Jed]

I used a steam cleaner on my friend`s Acura RL that has a light gray leather interior and it worked great.



I worked the seat in sections, steaming each section and then work out the stains with a cloth dampened with a 10:1 distilled water/Woolite solution. Steam it one last time (not intensively) to "rinse off" the solution and then wipe down.

[jayjacque]

I`m not a detailer, but have worked with leather for years, repairing and refinishing, so have some experience cleaning & conditioning as well. There are literally a ton of products out there both OTC and on-line that could work comparably well. The idea of a dedicated cleaner and/or conditioner has merit in that it prevents you from using detergent or solvent type cleaners that could mess up your finish, but people swear by the woolite formula and I do too. That`s for light to medium to semi-heavy cleaning. Leather that is in really bad shape might need steaming, but that is where my experience comes up short, so others would have to chime in. I`d use leatherique for troubled leather. If your seats were in bad shape, but still had not cracked completely out and lost color, that would be the way to go to save them.

[Danspeed1]

Thanks for the input guys... I will give the woolite a try and post results.



DG