Leatherique does it again !

Just finished installing my interior after refinishing with Leatherique.

It is a pretty labor intensive job but thanks to Kristy at Leatherique and the guys here a F chat all went well. Thanks to Mike Charness, Scott1967, F1ACE, and Wolftalk for the switch advice. My seats had so much dye on them I had to strip them down to the brown leather. It took a lot of sanding with the prep. I used a combination of micro fiber towels and terry towels to apply the dye. Here are a few pics. Thanks again

Regards

Stew
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Congrats on the beautiful job. I just went through the whole process myself, seats, center panels, and doors. It was a long process, but am pretty happy with the results.

 

Congratulations! Beautiful job!

 

Beautiful job! Did you get one of their off-the-shelf colors, or have it custom mixed?

 

Fantastic job,
Well done!!!!

Mark....

 

Really nice, great job. I am sure it was worth the effort.

 

Mike,

I used their pre mixed Saddle 3218. The seats and door panels had been sprayed a couple of times at least. They had a yellowish tint to them. I wasn't sure what the original color was until I turned the seats over and looked at the leather color underneath. The 3218 saddle was a perfect match. That being said, The dye dries into the perfect stock color but I must admit I stressed a bit over how much "orange" vs "tan" was in the dye.

I took between 7 and 8 very light coats to get coverage.

Your article gave me the confidence to do this job!
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You're welcome!

I am very happy for you. Wasn't the most enjoyable part getting the old stuff off? And also getting what look like new seats without the complications of recovering? Looks great! And now you have some left over for touch ups too!

BTW, not to nag you, but I can't resist telling you that you CAN adjust that wheel to bring it down and center it. Simple tools, get under the dash and away you go!

Me thinks your car just went up in value! Enjoy!

Wes

 

i'm wondering what i have to do to get ahold of someone there. i have left msgs, specificaly about the ferrari and what i need. i need to redo my interior as well and i'm hopeing that i can do it before the cavalino.
anyone know how can acctually get ahold of someone?

thanks,

and it look great! can't wait to to do mine.

 

I just call during the day and they always answer. 3 or 4 calls by now.

 

It's a small business, and sometimes they're away travelling to or from car shows...

 

wow, that is a HECTOR difference!! looks new!! congrats

 

can someone direct me to Mike Charness's thread that refers to the leatherique process

 

http://www.leatherique.com/dyeinst.htm

 

www.fca-se.org/conc_leather.htm
or
www.nwrfca.org/faq/leatherdye.html

 

Looking great good job looks a million dollars now.

 

Thanks to Mike for showing that this is DIY project works well in the first place. A LOT of people have been inspired!

Thanks, Mike!

-Peter

 

Great job, Leathrique is a great product.

 

Absolutely awesome! I can't wait to do this myself. My interior needs it really badly.

 

great job, makes the whole interior look much better. Now after all that work enjoy the ride.

 

Thanks to everyone for putting their experience on redying your interior on the forum.

I am about to attemt a massive redye project that will include no less than a complete redye of the entire interior on no less than 5 of my cars and the treating & touching up of at least 6 other cars.

I will try to post before and after (only if I am happy with my work) pictures.

The following is a list of cars that will have their interiors completely removed and everything redyed.

'71 Ghibli SS - Pigskin (Saddle)
'68 Islero - Coco Brown
'77 Khamsin - Red
'84 Mondial Cab - Red
'67 Mistral - Black

The following is a list of cars that will be treated and touched up (mostly on the seats).

'77 Bora - Black
'73 Jarama - Black
'80 Countach - White
'85 Mondial Cab - Black
'89 Laforza - Lt Tan
'96 XJ12 - Cream

I've used Leatherique's rejuvination oil before and it is great stuff. This should be very interesting project. I expect to be finsihed sometime before the summer ....................2015!

Joe

 

Man that Leatherique is sure is Fantastique.

 

I tried to use the rejuvinator on my porsche seats and it didn't help much. I put it on heavy and left it for a couple weeks, what am i doing wrong is it because it's cold here in the winter? Maybe i need sun and heat? Anybody have any suggestions? The seat is just dry and hard.

 

I have applied leatherique products to my seats on several different cars. I applied rejuvenator to the seats, closed the doors and windows and put the car in the sun. It creats a "steam bath" inside the car. When I removed the interior of my 328, I applied the rejuvenator to the parts, then I put the parts is seperate plastic trash bags and put them outside in the indirect sun and let the rejuvenator soak in. I repeated the process a few times until I was satisfied with the leather.

Hope this helps

Regards,

Stew

 

I've been told that it helps when you heat up the leather before applying. It helps the leather to breath and open up and soak it in. I haven't done anything to my leather yet so can't tell from my own experience.