Leather Upholstery Maintenance

[Ameer Antar]

Food Hide is much more popular for British sports car enthusiasts. Most of
these cars are 20 yrs+...I have one that's 37 yrs old! I think it's very
useful for this old leather that has mostly dried up. In my old Audi, the
rear seat is really dry and begining to crack...even though I've used Lexol
many times, it's still the same way...Food Hide helped, but not in the
winter....it will freeze in the leather! But it's not perfect...once the
leather cracks, no way to go back...Point is lexol is fine for a car that's
been maintained right from its dealer days, otherwise, you may need more
serious help like this food hide stuff.

-ameer


----- Original Message -----
Message: 16
From: t44tq at mindspring.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:30:34 -0500
To: kirby.a.smith at verizon.net
Cc: Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>,
        S-Car-List <s-car-list at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [s-cars] Leather Upholstery Maintenance

Kirby-
If lanolin is the key ingredient, wouldn't Lexol conditioner have
that as well? I know (for some reason I remember this) that Eagle
One leather conditioner has lanolin in it, at least the formula
from about 3 years back does.

I've been told on several occasions that Connolly Hide Food is really nasty=
, smelly stuff- I'd rather not use something that nasty and smelly if it ca=
n be avoided. Also, with the cold weather here, I don't think anything that=
 requires heat and soak-in time will work (at least not until I get a heate=
d garage).

Taka