gIzzE
MB Enthusiast
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2004
- Messages
- 5,735
- Location
- Norfolk, UK
- Car
- BMW F11 Touring + Porsche 911 Carrera S + Toyota Alphard Camper
All Purpose Cleaner from the supermarket.
Dilute down to around 10:1 and use a decent brush to scrub it.
When seats go hard and shiny it is just dead skin and grease sat forming a layer on top (nice!).
You simply want something to take this layer off and get it back to the matte layer showing.
Autoglym leather cleaner is pretty good as well, I do use this but still think a decent APC is better and far cheaper. I also used engine cleaner diluted 20:1 as well if it is really bad nick.
Gliptone is OK, often use there gel after it has been cleaned buy other stuff as it smells nice more than anything else, well, smells leathery.
This was a 6 year old 110k mile bolster that was hard and shiny, cleaned with All Purpose Cleaner and then nothing else, just left to dry......
Dilute down to around 10:1 and use a decent brush to scrub it.
When seats go hard and shiny it is just dead skin and grease sat forming a layer on top (nice!).
You simply want something to take this layer off and get it back to the matte layer showing.
Autoglym leather cleaner is pretty good as well, I do use this but still think a decent APC is better and far cheaper. I also used engine cleaner diluted 20:1 as well if it is really bad nick.
Gliptone is OK, often use there gel after it has been cleaned buy other stuff as it smells nice more than anything else, well, smells leathery.
This was a 6 year old 110k mile bolster that was hard and shiny, cleaned with All Purpose Cleaner and then nothing else, just left to dry......
