Ok to use leather cleaner on vinyl seats?

**zarbat007** · 04-30-2010, 10:03 PM

The BMW dealership sells leather cleaner/conditioner that smells great, I don`t know how to describe it, like new car smell + leather smell.

What if I use this product on my leatherette (vinyl) seats? Any harm in this?

Thanks in advance.

**Accumulator** · 05-01-2010, 10:35 AM

The only problems I`ve ever had from doing that is that some leather stuff degrades into a sorta slimy mess when it just sits on top of materials like vinyl as opposed to soaking into porous meterials like (uncoated) leather. But so much of today`s leather is coated anyhow...and that stuff can usually be treated about the same as vinyl so I wouldn`t worry too much.

**zarbat007** · 05-02-2010, 12:10 AM

Great, thanks for reply!

The bottle mentions not to use it on un-coated leather.

**Accumulator** · 05-02-2010, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by zarbat007

The bottle mentions not to use it on un-coated leather.

Huh, that`s interesting. Sounds like that particular leather product might be geared more towards vinyl (in the functional sense) than towards straight (i.e., uncoated) leather!

**Rtom** · 05-02-2010, 02:48 PM

As Accumulator mentioned, most leather out there now days is coated. For the practicality I assume.

In which case, I usually don`t worry (as much) about what I`m using when it comes to cleaning vinyl and leather, especially leatherette/pleather.

**Roger Koh** · 05-02-2010, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by zarbat007

The BMW dealership sells leather cleaner/conditioner that smells great, I don`t know how to describe it, like new car smell + leather smell.

What if I use this product on my leatherette (vinyl) seats? Any harm in this?

Thanks in advance.

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Look out for:

Streaks!

Brightness!

Tackiness!

As these symptoms do weakens the finishes due to Alkaline or Solvency over-exposure that need to be neutralized to stabilize the pH chemistry integrity.

Roger Koh

Leather Doctor