Leather heal - How To heal Torn Leather Seat

There are so many separate types of automotive leather seat repair, all with separate situations and applications. There are holes, scratches, gouges, cuts, scrapes, worn or cracked, and just down right grungy seeing leather seats. I think I got them all covered, well in this record we're going to talk about how to fix a small hole in a leather seat lean back, for those of you who don't know what a lean back is well it's the upper part of the seat.

Leather heal - How To heal Torn Leather Seat

Now when I say small this can apply for a tear up to 1 1/2" to 2", probably might go a dinky bigger, but lets not push it, if it needs to go to the cushion shop for an insert then that would be good then a crappy seeing leather fix on something that probably wouldn't hold anyways. When in doubt, insert it.

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Leather heal - How To heal Torn Leather Seat

Prepping a seat is the key to success in any leather repair, and a chronic leather dye job. So, prep the whole lean back, and while your at it just clean the whole seat, why not, but you don't have to, with your prepping clarification removing all grease, dirt, and grime. You need a clean surface and a well prepped area to work with. When I prep, I use a clarification of rubbing alcohol, acetone, ammonia, and a small amount of Tsp substitute, with water in a spray bottle. Spray the seat with the clarification and scrub with a scotch brite pad to scuff the leather seat for leather dye adhesion and remove any grime that's on the seat, then wipe clean with a clean lint free towel. Once your clean, apply a grip base primer to the seat, I regularly in most cases will dye the whole lean back when I do a fix or the whole seat, but sometimes it's not necessary, so you may not need to prime the whole seat, but do clean the seat good this cuts down on the amount of leather dye used and the ending effect will be a premium leather repair.

Leather heal - How To heal Torn Leather Seat

Leather heal - How To heal Torn Leather Seat

Now to the hole. Lets say it's in a V shape, just for example. Like where you've gott'n out of the seat with something in your back pocket, ouch! I know the feeling, back in college I had a 1986 Mustang Svo, very rare and nice car (man I miss that car) and I got out to go to class with a pen in my back pocket and ripped about a 2" V shape in the seat, I about puked right there, and of procedure at the time I didn't know whatever about leather repair. But now I do and here it is.

Sand the area nearby the tear with a 240 grit sandpaper, this gives a dinky more for the low heat blend to grip to. Take a piece of underpatch material and slide the under patch under the tear with a pair of tweezers, allowing about a 1/2" on the inside all the way around. I regularly cut my patches in a circular shape, it makes it a dinky easier to slide under. You can use separate types of under patches, I like the kind that is coated on one side with a heat activated glue.

Now take a drop of leather glue and spread a thin coat on the patch on the underside of the leather fix area. If the leather will lay down smoothly and match up then great, but sometimes it just won't. In this case we will use combo of the glue and your low cure leather fix blend and level a small amount over the patch then lay the leather down. Spread a small amount of low heat blend over the area and level it out with your pallet knife, remembering to holding your area as small as possible, the smaller the better. Now heat the area with your heat gun, hold the heat gun out away from the leather fix and slowly move it into the fix area, this will give you just a dinky more operate of the heat, you don't want to burn and shrink the leather. The idea is to cure the blend and get it to adhere before you cook the leather, it's a skill thing, custom makes perfect. Once the blend is cured immediately press the grain pad in your palm onto the repair, don't press to hard, but firm.

At this time using a wet paper towel apply a small amount of grip base to the fix area and dye with your color matched water based leather dye. Dry thin coats of dye, not wet. Then reapply and level out other thin coat of compound. Heat again and grain then dye, get the idea, what you are doing is construction the fix up. Thin coats of blend applied and cured then reapplied, are much good then one thick coat. Once you have it built up and seeing nice, blend the fix into the rest of the seat if needed, by applying thin coats of leather dye to terminate it off. Drying between coats of dye with a hairdryer, and one great tip is rubbing the leather dye with your hands to force the dye into the creases of the leather helps a ton, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty. I say that but I'm allergic to rubber gloves, it bites, so I come home every day with dye all over my hands, it's a pain, but I love the work and the job looks good with a dinky bit of love rubbed on those leather seat repairs. After the dye is cured, apply a top coat of satin or dull leather clear top coat mixed with a bit of slip additive added for the soft feel. Dry the seat thoroughly, then apply your leather conditioner to terminate and give the seat the juice it needs and a great feel and look for you.

Now there are so many other variations to this fix, sometimes I will have to use an air dry leather fix blend over the top of the low heat blend to level out the leather repair. Sanding it with a 400 grit sandpaper until it looks right. You can also turn your air down on your paint gun until dinky droplets are coming out to give it a textured look, drying between coats. Texture coatings, can be used, but if you do it right the gun effect works great. When I do a leather fix I won't give up until it looks perfect. Patience is a virtue, right. Don't get in a hurry, this will only frustrate you more and then you authentically got issues.

Leather fix is a craft and profession. The dyes and compounds I use are top ability and are made to last. Giving you a chronic leather seat repair, and ease knowing you have a leather fix that will last and look great for years to come.

I hope this was some help to you, in the coming months there will be more articles like this one but on separate situations on leather repair, liked I talked about in the first. There are so many separate ways that a leather seat can be damaged, we spend a lot of time in our cars and well "sh$$ happens", right. So check back to see my next record on automotive leather seat repairs. If you have whatever you would like to ask feel free to shoot me some comments on Leather fix - How To fix Torn Leather Seat.

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How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

You left the car window down or the sunroof open and there's a water stain in your car's leather seat....or your girlfriend spilled here red wine in your leather car seat on a night out on the town....or your Kids decided they were a soon to be artist and tried their techniques out on your leather car seat with a pen, arrggg. Got Kids myself, so feel your pain. Stain extraction in leather seats can be tough, here's a few tricks to help get you going.

How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

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How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

As a professional leather mend specialist I'm here to tell you that there are not to many products that can be used on a leather car seat that won't reMove the end before removing the stain. Most leather in today's cars is a finished leather with a water borne urethane leather dye applied to it and is pretty susceptible to chemicals and can be reMoved pretty certainly with a solvent cleaner. So when in doubt call a professional.

Water stains in Leather Seat....this is a pretty hard one to get rid of. I recently had reader send me an email on how he could get the water stains out of his car after leaving his sunroof open. This part is kinda for him inspecting I think I lost his email with pictures, I did get to see them though, so not all was lost. The pictures showed a crease that ran along the middle of the leather seat where the water had puckered the leather. In this type of situation there are two things we could do, one is sand the crease out and with some fillers and dye make the seat new again, this is where a leather professional comes in to play, or replacement of the section that is creased, that's where an cushion shop comes in. In these type of situations there aren't any leather conditioners or cleaners in the world that will reMove a creased or puckered leather, what happens is the actual buildings of the fibers in the leather have been altered and what you see is what you have.

If the water hasn't puckered the leather and has just left a stain, a sLight trick I learned from my good friend Dwain Berlin with Leather Craft Secrets, and you go to your bread box in the kitchen for this one. Take a piece of bread and roll it up into a ball and rub and blot the area with the bread ball, works pretty good. Dwain has a lot of great advice for leather care, and if your concerned in some great fun with leather go check out his book, it's quite impressive and I myself learned a few things.

Most of the time water will just evaporate and with no problems and the stains will disappear. If your car leather gets wet dry it as best you can with a towel and then condition it with your Lexol Conditioner. One way to dry the cars leather is by leaving the windows down and setting it in the sun to dry, or crack the windows and turn your car on with the heat on full blast and let it run for about 30 minutes. I'm not real hip on that one cause it's a waste of gas but it does work to dry things out better. But always condition, some rain waters are pretty dirty and harsh and the leather needs those extra nutrients to keep it soft.

If the stains are just too bad then new leather dye is the only way to bring it back then call your local leather professional like me to come and make it new again.
Mold Stains in Leather Seat....Or mildew which ever. This one kinda goes along with the water stains. Take and mix a cup of water and a cup of rubbing alcohol and mix them together, take a towel and rub a small number of the explication onto the stained areas, until the spot is gone, again Watch for dye lift, this trick works pretty well and usually reMoves the mildew pretty quick without dye removal.

Food Stains in Leather Seat....This one can be an easy one if you just don't eat in your car, but I'm just as guilty as most and eat on the run. A mild dish soap and warm water with a rag or scotch brite pad will do the trick in most cases. Most automotive leather is accomplished and food stuffs usually will wipe right off. If you run into a stubborn one though try a sLight all-purpose degreaser on a rag, don't rub too much or dye may lift. If the stain on your leather car seat from food doesn't come up with this then the dye from the food has penetrated the fibers of the leather and has dyed it, so it's time for a professional leather dye job.

Aniline leather or NuBuck leather is a distinct story though, thats the soft stuff you see as an inserted piece usually in the middle of the seats. You can use the soapy explication but water spots sometimes show up, so a special cleaner works best for this kind of leather. One I suggest is from the guys over at Leather Magic, they have a NuBuck Leather Care Kit that is the talk to all your NuBack needs. This kit includes cleaners and conditioners for the soft stuff, this type of leather is delicate and should be treated as such. Don't use your usual leather cleaners and conditioners on this type of leather due to fact of the oils in them will damage the look of the leather, then no more soft feeling NuBuck, so absolutely check out Leather Magics NuBuck Kit.

Ink, Marker, and Crayon on Leather Seat....Urgent!!! Get to it as soon as you can! If the ink is fresh you have a best occasion of removing it from the leather then not. Rubbing alcohol, with a sLight bit of acetone added will sometimes get it. I've heard of hairspray, tried it with not much luck. usually when an ink pen and leather come together they marry and don't split to easily. Ink is a dye and is made to lanch whatever it comes into taste with. Most ink spots I've ran into I've usually had to dye the leather to cover the spot.

Crayon on a leather seat can be a booger if it's melted in the seat, you can try this but be particular not to burn or pucker your leather. Take an iron and a paper towel and lay the paper towel over the crayon and with a low heat rub the iron over the paper towel over the crayon. The crayon will melt into the paper towel, move the towel around to clean spots until the crayon is gone, a sLight of rubbing alcohol should remove the remaining. This trick works on carpet and cloth too. If they're just marks on the leather seat a slight soap and water should do the trick or even a slight rubbing alcohol on a towel works good to. If all fails there is a product from Protective Products Corp. That is all natural with no solvents that will remove crayon and lipstick it's called Solv-It, but just like whatever try a spot in an unsuspecting spot to see if it removes dye.

One last trick that I've read about around the net and am in the process of testing it, but it the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, they do work around the house, so why not the car too. I've removed crayon and marks on my walls before with them, I do notice it take a slight paint with it though, but they do work. If you use one, be particular and don't go ape sh$#, rub it then look, rub it then look, they will remove dye, so when using it take your time and check it as you go.

Sweat Stains in Leather Seat ....Salt stains from sweat can be pretty gross looking, but there is a slight trick. Take and make a explication of 3 parts vinegar and one part water and wet a towel and rub the area clean, the vinegar breaks down the and helps to remove the stain.

Paint on Leather Seat....Paint removal on a leather car seat, well that ones a hard one. If it has dried it's probably there to stay. If it's a water color, just use soap and water to remove it. Latex house paint, you can try a slight Goof Off but keep in mind this is a solvent and can damage the leather seat and remove dye. I have in the past been able to take my pocket knife and scrape it off. Wet the area first with a slight water and lightly try to lift the paint off with your knife or even a razor blade, but don't cut the leather. Mostly though this certainly doesn't work without removing the dye underneath, but I have had luck sometimes. If its car paint, try a slight paint reducer on a rag, but just wipe lightly and don't soak the area with the reducer. Solvents and leather seats just don't mix.

My best advice to all when it come to stains in your leather car seats, and that is to be known of what you do, try to keep our slight Picasso's pen free, keep our food out of our cars, roll the windows up and sunroofs closed, and always remember to treat the leather with your Lexol Conditioner on a regular basis, this helps to keep the leather car seats protected and soft and makes it easier to get the spills and accidents from turning into disasters.
But always remember that we leather mend professionals are here to save those leather car seats and bring them back to there former state. If you have any questions don't hesitate to taste me for all your leather mend needs.

How to remove Stains in Leather Seats

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custom Made Leather Seat Covers For Cars Are Not the Only choice

Many population do not opt for leather seats when they purchase a new car. If the car purchased is a used car then the car may not have any leather seats. One way to get leather seats in a car that does not have them is to have convention leather seat covers made to fit the car seats.

This is not the only option. There are ready made leather seat covers that are now being mass produced for cars. They are made in the same way that other car seat covers are made but from leather instead of other materials. You plainly purchase the one that is designed for your make and model of car.

Many will appreciate being able to reMove their leather seat covers in the summer when it is hot and the seats become uncomfortable. This is especially true for those who do not have air conditioning. The seat cover can be reMoved for the summer months and then replaced when the winter cool makes the leather seat covers are less likely to cause you to perspire.

If you get convention made leather seat covers they will be constantly affixed to the seats so they can not be reMoved. In the hot summer months you will have to put something on the seat in order to sit down when the interior of the car is hot. This is why ready made covers may work good for some people.

If the car has good air conditioning then this may not be an issue. The air conditioner will quickly cool off the seats so that they do not remain very hot for long. In this instance, convention made leather seat covers would be good as they will typically last longer than ready made ones would.

Some may not want to reMove their seat cover in the summer no matter the climatic characteristic exterior because of the way that they look. This is an additional one fancy that you may select buyer covers over the mass produced ones. However, shopping colse to may allow you to find seat cover that are just as attractive as the convention made ones.

You will also be able to get leather seat covers that will match the color of your car. This can be done in both ways. You can have them convention made in any color you want or you can purchase them ready made in a color that suits your tastes.

You can also have patterns or combinations of colors when you purchase leather seat cover for your car. There are a wide collection of styles and color combinations to select from. You can have the interior of your car completely match any convention paint job you may have on your exterior. No matter the car seat cover needs you have, you can purchase leather seat covers to meet them. Whether they are ready made from the installation or convention made for your car, you will have an aesthetically pleasing car interior.

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