Leather "Restoration" Disaster
Discussion
The leather on my 30 year old Griff was actually in good shape, no tears or damage, but the colur looked tired so I bought some product from Dr Scratch or someone.
What a Disaster, a combination of colourblindness, poor lighting and stupidity has resulted in my magnolia now having cream patches.
I've given up....the TVR Griffith has about 3 cows worth of leather inside. A quote today to sort out the colour was at £1,700, a new interior I guess will be £4K minimum.
Are there any recommended cleaning products that will take the newly applied cream colour off?
What a Disaster, a combination of colourblindness, poor lighting and stupidity has resulted in my magnolia now having cream patches.
I've given up....the TVR Griffith has about 3 cows worth of leather inside. A quote today to sort out the colour was at £1,700, a new interior I guess will be £4K minimum.
Are there any recommended cleaning products that will take the newly applied cream colour off?
Oh dear!
We need to understand more about your image, is the circled section the new colour with the paint on, ie you have added paint or is it as a previous poster stated where you have removed previous colour and in effect bleached it?
You need to get a data sheet for the product you used, or even better, contact them to ask how to remove.
Most products will be some sort of conditioner and colour which means they soak in to the leather making it softer as well as colouring just the surface if you had brushed it on. They usually have a water based carrier nowadays which evaporates. It will probably be some kind of air drying polyurethane paint but probably also an oil based ingredient helping nourish the leather. Thats two different substances with opposite properties.
There isn't going to be a one fix, you are going to have to try it on an area out of sight and work through products.
Polyurethane is an air drying paint and removed with thinners and alcohol based products like IPA etc which won't be good for the leather, oil based products which it will probably be suspended in to nourish need mineral spirits like turps etc to remove.
I'd start with soap and water, baby wipes, saddle soap is good for removing things from leather. If they don't work and its an area you really cant see and don't mind working on then try the harsher chemicals, but really you need to know what the product is made of to know the chemical make up of the colourant. Once you know that you can understand which products might help.
Can you colour all of it to make it blend in? Can you blend that area over a wider blend area like you would with paint to take your eye off the difference rather than having such an obvious edge where the colour changes?
We need to understand more about your image, is the circled section the new colour with the paint on, ie you have added paint or is it as a previous poster stated where you have removed previous colour and in effect bleached it?
You need to get a data sheet for the product you used, or even better, contact them to ask how to remove.
Most products will be some sort of conditioner and colour which means they soak in to the leather making it softer as well as colouring just the surface if you had brushed it on. They usually have a water based carrier nowadays which evaporates. It will probably be some kind of air drying polyurethane paint but probably also an oil based ingredient helping nourish the leather. Thats two different substances with opposite properties.
There isn't going to be a one fix, you are going to have to try it on an area out of sight and work through products.
Polyurethane is an air drying paint and removed with thinners and alcohol based products like IPA etc which won't be good for the leather, oil based products which it will probably be suspended in to nourish need mineral spirits like turps etc to remove.
I'd start with soap and water, baby wipes, saddle soap is good for removing things from leather. If they don't work and its an area you really cant see and don't mind working on then try the harsher chemicals, but really you need to know what the product is made of to know the chemical make up of the colourant. Once you know that you can understand which products might help.
Can you colour all of it to make it blend in? Can you blend that area over a wider blend area like you would with paint to take your eye off the difference rather than having such an obvious edge where the colour changes?
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