Renovating carpets

[chim450]

With Spring around the corner I am spending time and money making my Chim beautiful again. It has magnolia leather and ruby carpets. The carpets are in good condition but have faded a bit (my wife takes great pleasure in calling them pink!!).

Is there any magic stuff you can put on the carpets to bring out the original colour?

[.Mark]

Ah-ha! I asked this exact question a few weeks ago, although my carpets are blue.
Get yourself some suede renovator, any shoe shop should sell it at about 3 quid a tin.
The colour match on mine was pretty close and you just do what it says on the tin. 2 coats and the carpet looks brand new, just be sure to mask the areas where the carpet meets trim.

[ATG]

Renovo's roof fabric restorer seems to work OK, but is available in limited colours. Suede restorer sounds like a better soultion

[Dan M]

I tried suede restorer at the weekend. My blue carpets had been sun-faded and have gone green in patches.

I bought a can of blue spray for 3 quid from a shoe shop.

I did a test on the footwell mat. With a few coats it looks good, not 100% but nearly there - cheaper and quicker than a retrim anyway.

Thanks for the tip.

Dan