Hello all, Not certain how to go about repairing (redying?) this little section of leather on the "butt entrance area" on the drivers side seat of my 2004 360. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!!! Thanking you all in advance. Yours, Tom Image Unavailable, Please Login
I used Leatherique products and dye to restore my 1981 308 seats/interior and it looked fantastic. Its a bit of work to do it right, but worth the time. Read their web site guides and/or call them and have them walk you through the process. I have included a few before and after images. Trent Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
hello, ussually some people paint that part of the leather, but i recomend you to redoed,is better, and come on is a ferrari , may be you going to spend $500 or $800 but is going to be worthed, good luck
Swisswax can help you with this. Call a Ferraristore and get the color code and talk to Swisswax. I did that whit my 360 driver seat and it looks perfect. It will cost you about 200 dollars and the job will take about 2-3 hours. Easy job I add some pictures for you before and after. Good luck. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Question, If you are using either of the fore-mentioned products, what do you do when you have Black Seats, but silver stitching? I assume you have to keep the dye away from the stitching?
This area on the seat gets worn. I also had a small area which was worn. The rest of my seat looked great. So rather than get the whole seat redone, I went to a shop that repairs Ferrari seats and bought a small bottle of the paint that is color the seat leather. Then I got an small delicate paint brush and touched up the area. I applied several coats over a few days. That was 2 years ago. It looks great. total cost about $30.
So far Malibu guy has the best answer. Will scope out the local Ferrari dealer (don't have anything scheduled until the fall) and their body shop. Will post pics when mission is accomplished. Yours, Tom
Tom, I'm using Swissvax and their Colourlock leather products since many years and I'm very happy about them. They are both small companies but have a true expertise of leather. Here is a link which may give you some more info: http://www.colourlock.ch/tip/english/carleathers.html Also, you can get in contact with the CEO of Swissvax (Georg Weidmann - @ swissvax.com), https://profiles.google.com/georg.weidmann.swissvax#georg.weidmann.swissvax/about Georg is a real expert in car care and leather care. I sent him in the past several email with some good detailed pictures of my leather problems and always got back very detailed instructions/procedures on how to resolve them and which products to use. Stef
Dear All, At 3:45 on the Friday of Labor Day weekend I e-mailed three different places regarding repairing the leather. Within five (5) minutes Darren from SwissVaxUSA got back to me and asked me to send him my phone number and he would call. Within three (3) minutes he called and we discussed the problem. I had the number of the Beige from the Ferrari dealer printout which he sent to Switzerland and I had the dye in ten days. Cleaned the seats (they have a GREAT cleaner) and dyed the area with a tiny paintbrush. He was always available if I had any questions. Why I am I writing this??? Because it seems a lot of the posts here have rants and complaints but when you get absolutely EXCELLENT courteous service there should be equal mention. He deserves the kodos!!! Yours, Tom Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Why did you rule out Malibuguy's approach? It sounds pretty similar whereby the seat area was painted. How much was the cleaner and how much was the paint? Thanks, -Jim
That's a great result Tom! Thanks for posting. That's exactly what I like with Swissvax, it's their excellence in their products and service. I use the entire collection of their products and never got deceived by the long lasting results. Several friends asked me how it is possible to have such a shining red color. They think I'm spending hours every week waxing the car which isn't the case at all. Same for the leather which is even better now than when I bought the car. Enjoy
None of the local leather/ car places would help me out. About $200.00 tops. It was worth having the dye fabricated to match the specs of the car.
Thanks! It was my halloween costume, sort of a tight squeeze, but worth the effort! The hardest part was shaving my legs, never again. But seriously the Letherique system left my interior looking almost new. Not bad for a 30 year old cow hide. The key was not the dye, but prepping the old leather to get it soft and conditioned. Once it felt right, then I dyed it to look right. Speaking of dye; Can you believe she dyes her hair almost black, really a shame, her hair was silky gold. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Tom, very nice job! I'm definitely going to consider it for my black seats if they fray.. Trent did you spray it or use a brush? Looks amazingly uniform!
I have done both; On my the Ferrari I sprayed using a paint sprayer. My stitching was the same color as the leather, so no issue there. On the Boxster I used an expensive 1" brush (artist), it was slow to paint but required much less prep work and looks almost as great. So total time was actually less, paint time was 5x. If your car has some fancy stitch color, you will have to use a brush and be very careful. Also remember your leather color changes with exposure to air, sunlight and cleaning chemicals, so the dye wont match if the car is more than a few years old. This means you have to do the entire area, i.e. the entire base of the seat, or maybe even both seats. If the car is new and the dye is matched well, you can spot it. I have bought Cuoio Leatherique dye for my F430, but have not yet used/tested it. If anyone cares I can tell you how well Leatherique Cuoio will match a 2006 F430. Just let me know if its important and I will do some tests.
Good jobs all round. Re-dye can be expensive, but it's not complicated nor precision work. I prepared re-painted some Porsche seats with this stuff: http://www.liquidleather.com/scuffs.htm £16 ($20+) and enough to do two seats. Lee Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Trent you keep looking better and better with each picture. Whoever is taking the pics knows their stuff......I need a cold shower ......Steve
LOL; was gong to post some more pics from the series, shot 30-40, but decided to keep this about leather restoration.
