We were asked by Jaguar World Magazine to help them restore the leather in a project car they were working on. It turned out it was a Jaguar XK8 with a pretty badly worn Ivory leather interior.
I would like to recommend the Furniture Clinic (0844 879 3691) as an excellent supplier of leather restoration products. The Drivers seat on my 560SEL had some substantial cracks, which rather spoilt my enjoyment of the car...
The Guardian Newspaper run a Questions & Answers section where readers write in and ask experts advice on various problems they have around the home. One user wrote in asking how to remove greasy hair marks from leather and the Newspaper recommended the Leather Degreaser as the product to use to remove grease stains from leather.
A member of the Rover P5b owners club used one of our Leather Colourant Kits to restore the leather in his Rover P5b. In an article about the restoration of his car, he mentions the kit and the excellent results he gut restoring the leather with in.
I am a great believer in conservation and would rather preserve than replace any item, but there comes a time when a product is no longer fit for purpose. I thought I had reached this point with the seats in the car but decided to have one last atempt at repair.
I carried out some'on line' research and settled on a repair method described by Furniture Clinic......
Matt Jones of Practical Classics magazine restores the leather in his Mercedes-Benz using a Leather Colourant Kit, with a little help from Furniture Clinic!
