I had my first 350 Z car the other day with alcantara seats /and leather. I was pretty stressed about how I was going to clean them because they were were really nasty dirty with bad spills of coke all over the owner had let them go like that for months even!

Anyway I used a little lexol cleaner on a sponge and tried not to wet them too much but it was hard not too because the material really soaks up liquid. It seemed to clean them pretty good but took about 4 hours to dry even after I blotted them well with towels and had to redo them(same day) because they needed a second cleaning after they dried .The key was to just keep blotting and not to rub , the material is very delicate it seems .

They actually came out pretty good and the owner was thrilled so I was happy too.

Does anyone have a good recomendation for protecting them? I really wasnt sure what to use ?