Exfoliating Leather Seats?

[Spartan535]

I'm in the process of renovating an '02 CLK 320 that has spent the last couple of years in a barn (yes - a real barn find). I've just had the interior valeted and it looks 1000 times better. However, the top of the rear seats are peeling. The leather looks in good condition, but the best way I can describe it - sorry for anybody squeamish out there - is when you spend a little too long in the sun and the top layer of your skin peels - or you peel it off!!

Do I just give them a good scrub with water or do they need some sort of feed?

 

[guydewdney]

sounds terminal to me - get a set on fleabay

 

[Charles Morgan]

It's the pvc coating that modern leathers have and it can peel. A respray of the coating or replacement of the seat are the solutions, feeding it will do nothing and water will get into the unaffected bits and make it worse. Or, just leave it.

 

[neilrr]

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/detailing/171965-leather-losing-its-skin-fixable.html

 

[Will]

Might be of some use?

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/clas...647-clk-w208-facelift-cabriolet-interior.html

 

[rrsupercharged]

My friend swears by this stuff Home Page | Leatherique Restoration Products . According to him, only 2 things are guaranteed to work...his 9mm Glock and leatherique.

 

[Dieselman]

My friend swears by this stuff Home Page | Leatherique Restoration Products . According to him, only 2 things are guaranteed to work...his 9mm Glock and leatherique.

I doubt leatherique will win at a Russian Roulette competition.

 

[gIzzE]

Buy the kit from Furniture Clinic.

It will look like new with a couple of hours work.

Leather Colourant Kit - DIY Leather Dye / Colouring Kit


Modern leather is spray painted, the clearcoat is coming off.



This may be easier, if a little more money.

http://volico.de/webshop/products/mercedes/?lang=en


I would get a scourer on the seats and see what happens, you may find colour lifts, if it does buy colour and topcoat, if it doesn't just buy some topcoat.

You want matte for a Merc by the way.

 

[jaymanek]

Its been painted by a mobile trim repair guy and that stuff tends to peel if not applied correctly.