Leatherique Assistance. Will it work successfully?

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The best approach is to START with Rejuvinator Oil and Prestine Clean. This will soften the leather and allow it to relax back to where it belongs. May take two or three applications:
WARNING:
1. You put the Rejuvinator Oil on FIRST then do NOTHING for about 12 hours or longer.
2. You take the Prestine Clean and a SOFT CLOTH, "T" shirt or Microfiber (waste of money, use the T" shirt) and using a spray bottle MIST the Prestine clean on THEN wipe.
3. In about 2 days PINCH the leather if it does not SNAP BACK like your skin then do another application.
SOME creases are NORMAL, the cows joint area. ALSO the variation of color is due to the factory finish on the leather NOT being perfect. Sorry but Ferrari suffers from the same problem as Rolls Royce. They used what they had to finish the job. Lower quality was found on the BACK of some seats and a color variation was common in cars from panel to panel.

My TR was done 3 times a year. Results below:
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This was the TR BEFORE I worked on it. It took 8 months to get to the point it is in the other picture:
Picture One is BEFORE (note it did take a redye to cure this, NO CRACK filler was used) I sanded away the damage with 400 paper and Rejuvinator Oil as a lube.
Picture Two is how the saddle faded
Picture Three was as deliverd
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You wouldn't happen to have three photos of the same angle would you? That might help to show the improvement your suggested method allows.

 

I hope this helps:
Picture one is the faded interior on the driver and the restored on the passenger
Picture two is the redone seat. Sorry about no close ups but it was my car and did not expect to use it for this. Now it is sold so no more can be taken.
Picture Three is the last shot I took of the interior, finished.
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In your first photo it appears you did not renew the leather on the headrest, is that correct?

 

Correct, that was the last area I did. I did a bunch of other projects but these are the only pictures I took. The leather was good when I got the car in 2002. It had been dyed but with Connelly which is lacquer. Our product is water based and will not take on the cracking found in lacquer unless put on to heavy.

 

Looks like a job well done! John...looks like you've got some work to do

 

This is more of what you do:
1. Seats are out and a color change is being made so I am sanding away with 240 grit and prepping agent
2. Applying Rejuvinator oil AGAIN. It was applied BEFORE the sanding step
3. In the car and DONE Took 2 days work and 2 days drying time and such.
4. What we started with
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I would appreciate some enlightenment as to why sanding is appropriate and/or beneficial.

 

The sanding removes the layers of dye material and this is what is showing the cracks. For a professional looking job, sand the cracks out and when the new dye goes on, it will be smooth and uniform.

 

PERFECT!
The NEW trick is to use Rejuvinator Oil as a LUBE when doing that.
1. It keeps you from burring the leather (heat from the sanding process)
2. It makes the leather softer faster PLUS removes the age creases.

 

Thanks for the reply - it makes more sense to me if you are talking about redyeing and refinishing the leather. I always think of Leatherique as a feeding/rejuvenation oil. How is the factory-new smooth finish produced originally? By sanding? I assumed it was by the natural top layers of the leather along with being pressed.

Which raises the follow-on question... if you sanded with Leatherique then the oil is now completely soaked into the pores making it as juicy as possible. How does the leather then effectively take up the dye application?

 

There is no REAL OIL so it works just fine. The heat of the sanding drives the Rejuvinator in to the BOTTOM of the hide, the side you can not see. The original application was was produced by BUFFING the hides this was the pride of Connelly to produce a SMOOTH finish. The SAME leather when sold for a Jaguar is NOT BUFFED. Buffing would be a SANDING term to us (with 2000 grit paper).

 

Hi George
In case you guys didn't notice, George IS Leatherique. You're getting the most accurate advice you can get.

 

Hi Nick
Gee I thought is was hiding LOL! Funny I sell the car and NOW I get questions about the leather!! Oh well.