Leather cleaner / restorer

[KardioKate]

1) What's the difference between the two?

2) Which is the best to go for?

3) Which smells nicest, and would bring the fresh leathery smell back to my car?

[grosserbaby]

One cleans the other conditions. The conditioner is the one for the smell, I use Autoglym but glyptone liquid leather is the one that smells the most, if a little too much.

[Mr-B]

I have tried both the autoglym and the gliptone, the gliptone smells tons better, no contest. IIRC the autoglym stuff is an all in one cleaner conditioner type, not sure that these can be very good considering cleaning and conditioning are two completely different processes.

[Gruber]

Mr-B said:

I have tried both the autoglym and the gliptone, the gliptone smells tons better, no contest. IIRC the autoglym stuff is an all in one cleaner conditioner type, not sure that these can be very good considering cleaning and conditioning are two completely different processes.

The autoglym stuff I've got is two separate products and seems to do the job well enough.

ETA: here we are:

Cleaner: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Moisturising balm:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Edited by Gruber on Monday 20th August 15:29

[Mr-B]

Gruber said:

The autoglym stuff I've got is two separate products and seems to do the job well enough.

ETA: here we are:

Cleaner: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Moisturising balm:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/...

Edited by Gruber on Monday 20th August 15:29

The one I tried was an all in one I think. Didn't think much of it anyway, moved to gliptone, much better.

[jagnet]

For the most part, 1990s and later automotive leather doesn't need a separate conditioner; just use a good quality cleaner such as Dr Leather wipes or spray and then protect (especially with light coloured leather) with a product such as GTechniq L1.

In my own side by side tests against the likes of Gliptone and Autoglym, I've found Dr Leather to be a much superior leather cleaner.

[E38Ross]

I use the gliptone stuff, really like it.