[s-cars] Leather Upholstery Maintenance

[Huw Powell]

> Unfortunately, the 200 seat heaters in the rear are keyed to some
> sort of spring that activates the heater when someone actually sits
> on the seat.
>
> I'm not sitting on a seat slathered with Hide Food- yuck.

that's half the fun... anything good for the leather is probably good
for your skin, too!

best way to do the serious once over for leather seats, in my opinion,
it take them out of the car.  of course, the drivers seat is a bit of a
problem if you want to use the car...

Bring them in, clean them, and soak them with everything you've got, rub
it in, add more, etc. etc.  I use the "every company forgets something"
approach and use lots of different junk on my seats.  Darker seats can
have some leather dye mixed into your concoctions as well to heal up the
faded parts a bit, too.

The drivers seat can be left in place and covered with a plastic bag for
the day or two or three it takes for a goodly amount of goo to soak in.

This is really worth doing once every year or two.

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Huw Powell

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