leather repair kit
Has anyone used the leather kits that all the suppliers sell that has the cleaner and dye for 59 dollars? If so did you get good results from the kit, have some spots that the color has come off.
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Lyndon, You are better off going to a recon shop. One that prepares the cars for the auctions. We have a huge over in my area. I had a seat fixed in a GMC and you could not tell where the hole was. Color match was perfect. John -
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I found a local man that can do it for me at a reasonable price. And I have seen his work an it is excellent .Comment
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Lyndon, I bought a kit years ago that was supposedly an exact match for our Suburban with tan interior---it wasn't. I would go with the pro. Good luck! SteveComment
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I'm not familiar with the Corvette vendors repair kits, but I recently recolored the seats in my Jaguar with a $26 bottle from Magic Mender which had the correct color code listed on their web site. I had never done it before and figured that if I wasn't satisfied, then I would just have the seats recovered anyway. I found it was waaay too easy. Just thinned it a little with water and sprayed the seats with an airbrush after a thorough cleaning. The color match was perfect and the results were better than I had expected. The cracks in the leather are still there, but now filled with color, they don't jump out and scream at you anymore. I was so impressed with the results that I bought a small piece of leather , painted it, and then took it to a shop to have only the outside driver seat bolster replaced which actually had a small hole worn in it. Its not concourse, but for less than $150 my front seats look almost like new again. The Jag is my daily driver and the seats still look good after about six months. Posts on the Jaguar forums were reporting such repairs holding up to four years later.
They also sell some stuff that can be used to actually fill the cracks but I figured that would take a great deal of practice to learn to match the grain pattern and I wasn't sure if it were possible to undo once I had botched a spot. I opted to leave the cracks and just paint over them. Now you might want to do a little research tho because I remember reading that leather before around 1992 was lacquered and after 1992 used water based dyes and so the surface preparation to recolor lacquered leather may be a little more involved for older cars. Hope that helps.Comment
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