white leather seats

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The best leather conditioner I've used is Mequiar's Gold Class - 'much better than the Lexol I'd previously been using. It really seems to go right down into the leather and condition it, unlike the Lexol...

John
[link:www.goldengatemark8.com|Golden Gate Mark VIII Website]
http://mark8.org/users/johnaec/Mark_VIII_s.jpg
'97 Mark VIII LSC
'96 T-Bird 4.6L
 
RE: white leather seats

While there are certainly some good leather conditioners available, I think the real problem is (as you mentioned #3565) that the color is coming off where the leather is creased from wear. I have an idea I would like to throw out to this group about fixing this. Here goes:
I've seen that there are companies who sell automotive upholstery leather in hundreds of colors and styles (perforated, etc.). Maybe a person could buy some leather to match and replace the offending panels in the seat upholstery. You would have the original panels to make patterns from and the rest of the upholstery on the seat (which is pleather/vinyl anyway) is in good condition.
So let's hear it guys, has anyone out there tried their hand at "DIY upholstery"? Will a standard sewing machine work for this? Heck, maybe just having a real upholstery shop replace those panels would be cheap.
 
RE: white leather seats

I know Stanley, (mrrobertstv), had his gray seats custom reupholstered this way, but with heavier leather. Auto upholstery shops do this all the time. (He had a shop do it - there's no way a standard seweing machine will work for decent leather, though one might work if using the paper-thin garbage Ford/Lincoln uses.) Just be prepared to pay for it...

I was checking out the interior of an older Infiniti some time ago, and though it had wel over 100K miles on it, the seats still looked new, probably becasue the leather was so thick. Instead of stretching it around curves and corners the way Ford/Lincoln does with their "cellophane" leather, the Infiniti leather was so thick they literally had to fold it over on itself, which actually looked just fine.

John
[link:www.goldengatemark8.com|Golden Gate Mark VIII Website]
http://mark8.org/users/johnaec/Mark_VIII_s.jpg
'97 Mark VIII LSC
'96 T-Bird 4.6L
 
white leather seats

Hey Guys! I'm new at this so try to bear with me. I bought my '98 Mark VIII almost a year ago now and when I bought it it was literally in New condition (with 48,000 miles, pictures on the way). Since then, however, I'm pained by the cracking I've been seeing in my white leather seats. I've tried a number of Autozone type products as well as this "Bentley's" leather conditioner stuff. The bentley's stuff seems to put a protective coat on but now I'm beginning even to see some brown where the color is wearing off. I'm dying here. I know some cracking and creasing is inevitable but somehow the guy who owned the car before me (who I can't contact) kept it perfect. Should I try to get it repaired by a dealer (I've heard that can be done fairly well for about $100)? How can I arrest the process? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
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