Repainting youre leather seats - wont they look scruffy?
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I seem to remember reading a post fairly recently about a chap on here who had repainted his leather seats with one of those kits from the Furniture Clinic. (Cant find the link at the moment which is a shame as was a nice write up)
Ive heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
Ive heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
axnutty said:
I seem to remember reading a post fairly recently about a chap on here who had repainted his leather seats with one of those kits from the Furniture Clinic. (Cant find the link at the moment which is a shame as was a nice write up)
Ive heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFXkraC9B7oIve heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9rhDRpe76A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIXY_ODCZQ
Edited by SILICONEKID340HP on Sunday 30th December 23:17
Its difficult for me to watch those videos at the moment due to signal, but will watch in their enterity at a later stage, however I dont think they show anymore than application of the product, which certainly looks excellent.
My concern is that over time and use the original colour will contrast against the new colour and will be become visible in the wear cracks and scuffs wont it? Making the whole thing look a mess.
My concern is that over time and use the original colour will contrast against the new colour and will be become visible in the wear cracks and scuffs wont it? Making the whole thing look a mess.
axnutty said:
.......My concern is that over time and use the original colour will contrast against the new colour and will be become visible in the wear cracks and scuffs wont it? Making the whole thing look a mess.
You may well be right but there are a few factors to consider. How different are you going to make the colour change? Are you going lighter or darker? If it is easy enough to do the change then touchup should also be easy.An example on the web site showed some red seats changed to cream...now there's a challenge.
Steve
I recoloured mine about 2 years ago and it still looks as good now. Some picture here if it helps
Firstly I changed from a greeny/grey to a cream
I repainted everything including dash, door trims, seats, whale tale windscreen trim and roof trims. the end result.
A couple of close ups of the finish
The process is fairly straight forward once you have the parts out of the car. Take your time especially on the prep as long as you do you will have a finish thats as good as the origional.
Hope this helps
Chris
Firstly I changed from a greeny/grey to a cream
I repainted everything including dash, door trims, seats, whale tale windscreen trim and roof trims. the end result.
A couple of close ups of the finish
The process is fairly straight forward once you have the parts out of the car. Take your time especially on the prep as long as you do you will have a finish thats as good as the origional.
Hope this helps
Chris
I've just repainted my seats and I am really happy with the results. I can't comment on the longevity but other people have posted positive feedback.
To be honest even if the process needed redoing in a few years time it really wasn't too difficult.
My advice would be do not bother with the propellant cans, hire the compressor from furniture clinic it really saves a lot of ball ache with the cans freezing up.
To be honest even if the process needed redoing in a few years time it really wasn't too difficult.
My advice would be do not bother with the propellant cans, hire the compressor from furniture clinic it really saves a lot of ball ache with the cans freezing up.
axnutty said:
I seem to remember reading a post fairly recently about a chap on here who had repainted his leather seats with one of those kits from the Furniture Clinic. (Cant find the link at the moment which is a shame as was a nice write up)
Ive heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
My seats still look brand new.Ive heard of people using these kits change the colour of their seats/leather trim as opposed to just tidy them up. Whats the longterm consequences of this? Becuase surely it will chip and wear just as the orignial coating leaving you with a messy looking seat as the contrasting colours become visible?
Has anyone got anything to add to that? What are the longterm effects as Im seriously tempted to do this to mine over the next few months.
Here is my experience....
First the seats....
...and also the dash / cockpit refurb as well (the kit goes a long way!)
Hope this helps.
Well worth doing....
Nosh.
I did this to the seats on my MX5 and was *stunned* by the results.
If I was doing it again, however, I'd completely disassemble the seats for painting. I didn't and there's a few spots where I should have gone closer to the plastic hinge panels. You'll also lose any contrast stitching...
Anyway, before:
after:
In contrast to the poster above, this was not a colour change. This was a really good colour match (based off a sample of leather I sent in beforehand). In the above photo, the headrest hasn't been painted, but the lumber supports and bottom half of the seat back have been. I stopped painting at a join in the leather (rather than attempting to blend it in) and the colour match is so good that you wouldn't know (other than the contrast stitching suddenly re-appearing.
It's not perfect, but is well worth the money.
If I was doing it again, however, I'd completely disassemble the seats for painting. I didn't and there's a few spots where I should have gone closer to the plastic hinge panels. You'll also lose any contrast stitching...
Anyway, before:
after:
In contrast to the poster above, this was not a colour change. This was a really good colour match (based off a sample of leather I sent in beforehand). In the above photo, the headrest hasn't been painted, but the lumber supports and bottom half of the seat back have been. I stopped painting at a join in the leather (rather than attempting to blend it in) and the colour match is so good that you wouldn't know (other than the contrast stitching suddenly re-appearing.
It's not perfect, but is well worth the money.
Edited by dxg on Monday 31st December 19:56
I should add, I used a kit from here: http://www.liquidleather.com/car-shop.html
This kit comes with a 'gloss enhancer' to mix in with the paint - you keep adding it to get the level of gloss you want. I didn't bother as I wanted a matt finish.
This kit comes with a 'gloss enhancer' to mix in with the paint - you keep adding it to get the level of gloss you want. I didn't bother as I wanted a matt finish.
i have used various types of seat paints and dyes over the years some of the paints if sprayed on are fantastic we sprayed a set of black seat blue to match my freinds rear seats in a very pricey sought after 455 ho fire bird and they looked amazing and it never wore off after 4 years of useage i think its just a case of getting the right product, i had a set of rolls royce seat s reconnolised many years ago and was supprised when i talked to the guy behind the counter at this very well known trimmers that reconnolising was just a spray on product i thought it would have been far more technical lol.
Hi All. Happy New Year. I've read with interest all the posts on refurbing seats with products from Furniture Clinic including the the excellent write up on overhaul of the seat base. I'm going to attempt the process on my magnolia seats basically to hide the unsightly scuffing on the drivers bolster panel. The one that always seems to wear the most. I been in contact with the company and initial response suggested using the colour refurb' packs. My question is, wouldn't I need to use their filler pack to fill the surface cracks in the leather? Or would spraying the colour on fill those cracks. Any advice from users of their products would be most helpful. Thanks for any replies. John C.
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