Leather Seats
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bunkeroo26
New member
Don't know if you can fix peeling.
David Fermani
Forza Auto Salon
I'm afraid this peeling meaning failure of the top coat. I cannot be stopped and must be stripped and refinished.
vanisha singh
New member
Refinishing would certainly help. Top coat does become at times difficult to maintain.
Accumulator
Well-known member
Nonauto- Welcome to Autopia!
I've been able to arrest such degradation on my Tahoe by keeping things clean and occasionally treating the creacked/peeled area (using either Sonus or Leather Masters on that vehicle). When I bought it everybody said "you've gotta recover those" but it's been years now and the damage hasn't gotten any worse.
I did trim a few of the worst areas so the peeled-up stuff wouldn't snag or get pulled (and thus get worse), might want to consider that depending on how bad yours are.
The "do what you can" approach, applied to both cleaning/condioning and ongoing maintenance just might let you avoid the costly refinishing/recovering. If the leather seems to be in *really* fragile condition I'd go with the Leather Doctor system including the fat-liquoring process, but I didn't need to get that involved with the Tahoe to get satisfactory results.
I've been able to arrest such degradation on my Tahoe by keeping things clean and occasionally treating the creacked/peeled area (using either Sonus or Leather Masters on that vehicle). When I bought it everybody said "you've gotta recover those" but it's been years now and the damage hasn't gotten any worse.
I did trim a few of the worst areas so the peeled-up stuff wouldn't snag or get pulled (and thus get worse), might want to consider that depending on how bad yours are.
The "do what you can" approach, applied to both cleaning/condioning and ongoing maintenance just might let you avoid the costly refinishing/recovering. If the leather seems to be in *really* fragile condition I'd go with the Leather Doctor system including the fat-liquoring process, but I didn't need to get that involved with the Tahoe to get satisfactory results.