How to get this off my seat?

How to get this off my seat?

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Louis Balfour

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Wednesday 14th February
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I’ve just given a hairdresser a lift to her next appointment and she has rewarded me with this on my passenger seat.

It lightens very slightly with a wet wipe, but it’s still very obvious. I’ve no idea what it is, could be dye from her clothes or nail polish pehaps.

What can I try to get it out please?


Louis Balfour

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Wednesday 14th February
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I’ve tried water - no joy
APC faded it slightly
WD40 no joy
Magic eraser small improvement

Still super visible though. May have to message the culprit and ask her what she may have transferred to my car.

Louis Balfour

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Wednesday 14th February
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Ok I’ve done it.

I tried escalating intensity of products and nothing at all was shifting it.

In the end cellulose thinners and careful won the day.


Louis Balfour

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Wednesday 14th February
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Fermit said:
Red9zero said:
Isn't Fermit the leather person ? He should know what to do.
I am, but it seems he's sorted it. There is a solution for pretty much any type of stain, but for anyone reading be very mindful of using either babywipes or thinners, both can do serious damage to the leather finish.
I tried a small area first, cleaned the seat, washed it off thoroughly and put some leather conditioned on it.

The fact that nothing apart from cellulose thinners would move it suggests to me that it may have been something a bit plastic or nail polish perhaps. Even lighter petrol and white spirit proved unsuccessful.

The car is a Rolls Royce and they appear to use leather from elderly, wrinkly cows, because it is not tight and it has natural "veins" in it. I think the leather rucked up, she transferred X substance to the seat, which "took" where the ridges in the leather were.

Anyway, the next time I see the girl who did it I shall wave cheerily from my window and she can walk!

Fermit, for future reference, what precisely do you do? From memory you aren't far from us (Midlands) correct me if I am wrong.


Louis Balfour

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Thursday 15th February
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Fermit said:
East Mids, Derbyshire/ Notts border. I restore leather, however the business is currently dormant on health grounds.
Ah, hope you recover soon.