Leather Seat Cleaner

[dombanks]

can anyone recomend good products for giving a car interior a good deep clean? the interior is a beige color and the seats are leather.

i dont mind a little elbow grease and was sort of thinkig of a something like a deep clean to get all grime out and then something to treat the leather with after.

thanks

[Norman Verona]

Get some saddle soap and leather "oil" from a horsey place. The leather cleaner/revitaliser sold by halfords et el is nowhere as good.

Our leather furniture was in a bad state after the renovation when it was left uncovered and was covered in fine dust (and some not so fine). A friend of ours, who is the president of the local jockey club, gave me a tub of saddle soap and some leather cleaner. Worked a treat and the furniture is now clean, soft and supple again.

We also had another leather suite which had been in one of the barns for 5 years which has not only dried out but has had a family of mice chewing at it. The sofa is returning to life by applications of saddle soap. The settee has been put into one of the gites but has holes in the arms. Mice eat everything, including the bars of soap left under the sinks in the gites.

[Rab (bombero) Reid]

I cannot see past Gliptone products supplied by these guys: http://www.liquidleather.com/ but also available on a few other sites. Simple, easy to use and gives off a great new leather smell

[Norman Verona]

A lot of money for saddle soap. It looks and feels like a perfumed, thinned saddle soap product.

[Dibby]

Ordinary leather sofa stuff with the separate shampoo and conditioner has always worked a treat.

Don't put too much elbow grease in, scrubbing hard does more harm than good

[dombanks]

good call normam i ought to have thought about that as the x used to clean enough tack in the lounge! any recomendations for plastics cleaner etc?

[dhutch]

I cannot see past Gliptone products supplied by these guys: http://www.liquidleather.com/ but also available on a few other sites.

Not used saddlesoap to compair but have used the above. The cleaner did appear work but didnt blow me away, although as I was cleaning black (car) and brown (sofa) leather maybe thats not a supprise. The leather conditioner worked well to soften the leather however, although it did stink for the next 48hours. The scruffmaster worked will on the pugs seats too.

Daniel

[markcoopers]

I would suggest http://www.buffaloleather.co.uk/repair-and-care-products-leather-car-seats.htm all you will ever need.

[Norman Verona]

No experience of cleaning plastic other than "back-to-back" bumper stuff.

I suspect most of the above brand products are saddle soap mixed with oil and perfume - and twice the price (or more)

If the leather has gone hard then saddle soap will feed the leather and it will soften. I then use a leather cleaner I get here (next to the saddle soap in the Brico Marche (B&Q).

[dombanks]

the leather is ok, its just a new car to me and i want to give it a good deep clean so it looks nice. the drivers seat bolster is scuffed so as youd imagine so i thought about getting that redyed or whatever its called but at first a good clean wil allow me to see whats what.

i wonder how much a proper valet is for it.... just dont really trust some of these places you see sprung up everywhere they look a bit like a bunch of blokes that have bought some products from halfrauds. having said that i did get a groupon thing for the 5 star wash and the car looked great afterwards but i dont think it want anything i could have done myself with the right stuff.

the buffalow stuff loos good. the ex did warn me with some of the horsey tack stuff that it can be a bit agressive so use lightly and be careful but its a good idea all the same.