Most Effective Leather Reconditioner

I`ve posted countless times here how I`ve softened/"conditioned" coated leather with products that "shouldn`t work"..ones that I did *NOT* expect to work.

I too figured that nothing would penetrate the coating sufficiently to do anything significant. I was wrong.

E.g.,- the cardboard-stiff leather in my Tahoe and the `93 Audi, both of which would bead water and seemed like they`d be impervious to "conditioning", softened up nicely and *stayed* that way for a long, long time. Didn`t expect that, but glad it worked out that way.

Try stuff and go by your own first-hand experience.
 
Update: fellas I truly don`t know what to think or which side to believe: is coated leather worth "conditioning" or leaving it be.

Here are the seats of my Pontiac. The car has 24k on it and the leather is original 17 years old. It felt pretty cardboardish if I may be honest. Spent the last two years in storage.

I put a healthy coat of Leather Masters on the passenger seat and let it be as I went to do the drivers.

By the time I came back to wipe off the excess product on the pass seat---it was gone. I mean GONE as if I never even touched the seats. Maybe my 100 year old barn is haunted?

I went ahead and put another coat on the same passenger seat and came back 3-4 minutes later to some product still on the surface- it did not disappear like the first coat did. I only managed to take a pic of the second coat taken again, just a few minutes after applying.

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I imagine that 17 year old leather was the uncoated type. I had a 93 Cadillac that had seats that would soak up conditioners too. I now have a newer BMW that has leather that won`t soak up anything.
 
To me. This is coated leather. I can post more pics if you guys would like.


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Striker- Man do I love that car`s condition!

FWIW, the leather in my GMs from that era was always coated, not that it seemed to matter when applying products like the LM.
 
Thanks man. Coming from you that`s saying a lot !

Yea it`s definitely coated. I`m also certain the rear buckets don`t even have an ounce of leather in them. Straight vinyl.


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Striker said:
Update: fellas I truly don`t know what to think or which side to believe: is coated leather worth "conditioning" or leaving it be.

Here are the seats of my Pontiac. The car has 24k on it and the leather is original 17 years old. It felt pretty cardboardish if I may be honest. Spent the last two years in storage.


I put a healthy coat of Leather Masters on the passenger seat and let it be as I went to do the drivers.

By the time I came back to wipe off the excess product on the pass seat---it was gone. I mean GONE as if I never even touched the seats. Maybe my 100 year old barn is haunted?

I went ahead and put another coat on the same passenger seat and came back 3-4 minutes later to some product still on the surface- it did not disappear like the first coat did. I only managed to take a pic of the second coat taken again, just a few minutes after applying.

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I have a 2000 TA as well. The leather is like cardboard now. Over the years I`ve used Zaino and Mothers which are pretty good products. In January I ended up splitting the passenger side seat when I put my knee down on it. I replaced it with a good quality leather replacement. The drivers side has had me concerned so I tried a product called Leather CPR from Tractor Supply. One coating seems to have softened the leather. Hopefully it`s not just temporary. Regardless, my opinion is the same, the leather absorbed the conditioner.
 
Striker said:
Thanks man. Coming from you that`s saying a lot !

Yea it`s definitely coated. I`m also certain the rear buckets don`t even have an ounce of leather in them. Straight vinyl.


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I`ll disagree, the seat back is leather as the top of mine has hardened from the sun. The rear center section is vinyl.
 
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