re. How Much Would You Pay -- S4 Seat Dyeing

[Alex Kowalski]

Ben, I have the feeling that your fingers have been dirtier on these cars
than I've ever gotten mine, but I'll wait until the chips arrive until I
decide that.  And I will thank you for the booooooooost.

Kent, I think you're probably right.  It's a nice car, but $8h something is
probably too much to spend right now, especailly when Ben is thinking about
doing something as wonderful as a kit for installing bypass valves...all
over again...

The next set of S4 seats I buy will be new, and in the meantime I'll just
have to make these look as good as possible.  However, I don't want to
discount Julie at Hub Leather.  She's a very nice person and I'm sure that
if you have something truly, truly valuable in New England you won't want
anyone except Hub to repair it.

In any case, I think that what I'll do for now is take this 'lil pair of S4
seats and dye them myself.  They're in very good shape otherwise and I've
got to say that the madmen at Force5 are truly crazy.  Crazy, I tell you!
I've never seen so much pearl white paint in a parking lot in New
Hampshire.  Total wackos -- those people completely overloaded my Quattro
sensibilites on the way out of the parking lot.   Oh, and they have a lot of
nice stuff, also. ;)

Cheers,
Alex


On 2/7/06, Ben Swann <benswann at comcast.net> wrote:
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>  Alex,
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> A bottle of leather dye is around $50 – probably enough for 3 cars.
> Preceded this with Lexol and followed by conditioner – Lexol or other – to
> soften and expand the leather and let cracks absorb and seal.  I suspect
> that is what they would do.  Probably more info on the web and other
> conditioners and dyes, but I used this and worked great.  Just use rubber
> gloves and car not to spill any – this is real dye and black hands probably
> look worse than the brown I had for a week.
>