Got my leather seats but a few questions??

[Downey]

Well i picked up my leather explorer seats and my new rear bumper.

well my seats dont match my interior but i cant complain since everything was free. but they need a good cleaning. what the best way to clean these seats? and im thinking about painted them black with the dupli-color interior paint i have used on the rest of interior and it holding up great. i saw on trucks a long time ago they took acetone or alcohol or something and cleaned with it and it was suppose to open the pores in the seats so the paint would stick better. does anyone remember that? because i really want black seats since the rest of my interior is black.

 

[jasongind]

As far as i know if you treat leather like that it is going to dry it out and cause it to start cracking waaaaay earlier then it should. With the constant rubbing that will occure from sitting on them I dont really think any paint will stick for to long anyhow. Grey and black match pretty well. If you want it done right, have them recovered in the leather you want. Just use the money you would have used to buy those in the first place. Hope that helps.

 

[Downey]

yeah we will see what happens

 

[RangerFabWorks]

dying them will be fine. just use laquer thinner and go over the seat a buch of times. then use duplicolor adheasion promotor. then the duplicolor flat black dye. they wont scratch or crack. after there all dyed, hit em with some leather treatment. did this to the seats in my jeep, and over a year no problems so far.

 

[Downey]

what do you mean dye? do you mean the interior paint?

 

[RangerFabWorks]

what do you mean dye? do you mean the interior paint?

yes its called dye.

use this first after cleaning the seats with laquer thinner

then use this

 

[Downey]

ok thats exactly what my whole interior is painted with in the black and thats what im planning on doing my seats with.


so clean them good should i take a red scuff pad to them then the lacquer thinner to them. does the lacquer thinner open the pores in the leather?

1. clean
2. red scuff pad
3. lacquer thinner
4. adhesion pormotor
5. paint


Does that sound like a good plan?

 

[Downey]

do you have any pics of your seats you did?

 

[RangerFabWorks]

not the seat but i do have pics of another truck i did. door panels, carpet, and dash.

heres the link http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...480042478&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MESELX:IT

i havent done the seats yet because its for sale lol.

and the list sounds good. make sure when using the laquer thinner to go over it several times and use a white rag. when the reag doesnt come up black. your good to go.

hope this helps.

 

[RangerFabWorks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuiTj-VTvHo

heres a how to video for ya.

 

[Downey]

thanks man

 

[Bogdon]

you can listen to anything you want but the thinner WILL dry out the leather. Stupid me dropped a small drop of paint on a leather sofa a few years back..I tried to quickly dab off the paint with a little thinner on a rag and within a month the section of sofa was all dried out and destroyed. DO NOT USE THINNER ON LEATHER

 

[Downey]

what should i use then because they used acetone or something like that one trucks to open the pores of the leather.

 

[atvkid4eva]

i would just leave them the color they are...who cares if the dont match? painting them is just asking for problems with them chipping and such...id never paint anything i sit on in a daily basis.

 

[Downey]

i dont sit on them on a daily basis