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conor

Member Since: 27 Aug 2021
Location: London / Ireland
Posts: 146

2005 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Zambezi Silver

Polishing/Correcting/Refurbing leather

Hey guys,

Quick one.

The leather in my Supercharged isn't bad. But there are spots showing general wear/face and the odd scratch. No real tears or big scratches.

I'm wondering is there a process where you can polish these up and apply some kind of coloured conditioner to bring them back up. I'm not talking about filling and repainting/dyeing the leather.

Kind of like polishing/paint correcting a cars bodywork versus filling and respraying..

I'm looking for the former..

Any body gone down this route.. got any before/after pics?

Thanks a lot guys
Conor

5th Nov 2021 4:40pm

bigbo

Member Since: 07 Jul 2014
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 570

2006 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Buckingham Blue

Have a look here www.furnitureclinic.co.uk

Everything you need plus lots of help
I've no connection just found them to be really good.

David Range Rover 4.2 Supercharged 2006
Ford Focus EcoBoost 1.5 2017
MG TF 2003

Previous Cars of note
Land Rover Discovery 2
Jaguar Mk2 3.8 - Company car
MG Midget 1974 - Concours

5th Nov 2021 4:48pm

Haylands

Member Since: 04 Mar 2014
Location: East Yorkshire
Posts: 8178

2014 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Black is easy, just use a shoe scratch cover, and apply it sparingly, you can also polish it with normal shoe polish, just make sure you polish it well to prevent staining clothes... Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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5th Nov 2021 5:32pm

Sonearly

Member Since: 18 Sep 2020
Location: Northants
Posts: 216

2017 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Santorini Black

Use Auto Glym leather cleaner with a good brush to clean, then use Gliptone leather conditioner for that new car leather smell.

5th Nov 2021 6:07pm

LT

Member Since: 13 Mar 2017
Location: South West
Posts: 396

2017 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Carpathian Grey

bigbo wrote:
Have a look here www.furnitureclinic.co.uk

Everything you need plus lots of help
I've no connection just found them to be really good.

David

6th Nov 2021 12:07am

conor

Member Since: 27 Aug 2021
Location: London / Ireland
Posts: 146

Thanks everybody.

Also.. I recall a while back a company who offered a product for repairing torn leather/vinyl - but I can't find them at all.

Part of the product was this stuff that looked like chewing gum, that when you had filled in the tear etc, you would press the gum onto an unaffected area of area to pickup the grain, you would then press this "grain mould" onto the freshly filled in area to impress the grain into it.. It seemed to work really well.

Cheers

13th Nov 2021 2:53am

JayGee

Member Since: 27 Jul 2021
Location: London
Posts: 3187

2012 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Orkney Grey

AFAIK all leather in modern cars has a plastic layer over the top of it so any leather specific treatments , polishes or cleaners are not going to do much. Repairs to tears etc will be a different matter. 2012 TDV8 Vogue (L322)

13th Nov 2021 8:42am

RichM63

Member Since: 10 Jul 2019
Location: Brittany
Posts: 249

2006 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

Search "liquid leather, gliptone, todmorden"

best, Rich L322 3.6 TDV8 Vogue. 07MY
ML 320 7 Seat full leather etc. (The Black Pearl)

13th Nov 2021 8:50am

JamboM3

Member Since: 28 Jul 2021
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 180

conor wrote:
Thanks everybody.

Also.. I recall a while back a company who offered a product for repairing torn leather/vinyl - but I can't find them at all.

Part of the product was this stuff that looked like chewing gum, that when you had filled in the tear etc, you would press the gum onto an unaffected area of area to pickup the grain, you would then press this "grain mould" onto the freshly filled in area to impress the grain into it.. It seemed to work really well.

Cheers

This.

Leather is painted, conditioners just make them greasy. There is just lots of grime in them and it needs degreasing.

A good APC, stiff-ish bristle brush and a soft one to work the grime out the seat and wipe off with a microfibre (test first)

Then seal it with something like Gtecniq or my preference carbon collective. The seats should be matte finish as they were new, creases or rucks can be tightened with a hairdryer (better done in summer tbh!)

Can always re paint using furniture clinic stuff.

10th Dec 2021 3:40pm

Range Rover L322

Member Since: 03 Sep 2019
Location: South West
Posts: 329

Mate. https://www.colourlock.com/

Colourlock. Watch the videos on Youtube and go with this.
My leather is pristine thanks to this stuff and ts fun to see the results without neefding to be a pro using an airbrush

Good luck.

.

10th Dec 2021 11:38pm

Graham4242

Member Since: 26 Sep 2021
Location: Dubai
Posts: 36

2011 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 SC V8 Alaska White

Sonearly wrote:
Use Auto Glym leather cleaner with a good brush to clean, then use Gliptone leather conditioner for that new car leather smell.

2nd this, I used it with soft brushes in a drill, came up a treat. Current
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11th Dec 2021 9:01pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 03 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 16280

2015 Range Rover SVAutobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Conor, I hope your feeling better? Have you seen my thread about my new car? The seats I have treated with furnatureclinic dye...

12th Dec 2021 1:34am

Woofster

Member Since: 12 Jul 2018
Location: Toronto
Posts: 121

On a similar but slightly different note, has anyone ever used a hair dryer to smooth out some slightly wrinkled leather in their seats? I have one small spot on the driver side cushion where the leather is slightly wavy due to the pressure of one of my buttocks always pressing against that one small area of the cushion!

I've seen YouTube videos of people smoothing out leather seats but I haven't yet tried it myself. 2010 RR SC
2007 RR SC

15th Dec 2021 9:33pm

Sandyt

Member Since: 07 Nov 2013
Location: Wraysbury Windsor
Posts: 2256

2007 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Buckingham Blue

A while back I got a number from Dr Rob (member on here) of a chap called Brett who came to the house and refurbed the leather on the seats also did the door cards and the result was brilliant from memory it was about 250quid he also left me some stain to touch up ( he mixes each colour on site to get a perfect match he also treated the seat of the driver seat to shrink it back and take the sag out of it all in all good job I am just about to get in touch and have mine redone I have done about 80k since he did them

15th Dec 2021 9:48pm

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