Waking up this thread, to asked those that have used Leatherique what they are finding over time and how often are they're using?????
Some back ground:
After reading about Leatherique here in mud, I switch to this rather pricey product. I started using on my restore projects. It seem to do a good job cleaning and was easy to use. The drawback was it took a few days to do the job, basting in the hot sun. This made it a summer use product to get best results.
But I'm not convinced this is a great conditioner, here's why:
After using a few times on interior of project 100 series, I tried out on The King. The King I've had for near 14 years. It is/was well kept and garaged most of it's life. I'd used Lexol leather cleaner & conditioner system a few times over the years. Yes only a few times, but seat leather was/is good and I kept clean.
Anyway as The King was my pride and joy I only wanted the best for it. I decided to go the extra mile and clean leather with Lexol clear first. My thinking here was to open the pores so Leatherique could really soak in easily. I also positioned so windshield faced the sun all day in 90 deg temps, using sun shade to keep direct sun off leather while reflecting into interior on headliner. Each morning for ~4 days I'd go out and rub more Leatherique Rejuvenate on any spots of leather that looked dry. Then followed up with pristine clean after the 4 days. I do really like how pristine clean works, not only on Leather but plastic and vinyl of interior as Rejuvenation is cleaned off.
Unfortunately the Drive seat
bolsters looked worst after I was done and leather didn't feel as soft. I thought I must have over-done-it, as Lexol had never resulted in this cracking and removal of dye/paint. This was about 11 months ago.
Not bad for 169K miles and ~17 years, but leather bolster looked better before I cleaned 11 months ago.
Moving ahead 9 months, I used Leatherique on more restore project this year, the last being Snowy. Snowy had seats that leather felt amazingly soft, I was envious. But they did need some cleaning up. So I got out my Leatherique and went to work. I let it soak for a few days in the sun protecting from the direct rays of the sun, then clean as directed by Leatherique. First thing a notice was leather did not feel as soft, just as I noted in The King.
Now moving forward to this month. I sold The King, it was a painful decision to let it go. Before heading to it's new home I cleaned up a bit. I'd not been treating with leather ever 3 months as recommend by Leatherique, that seemed excessive to me. But in inspecting the leather I found it needed a bit of cleaning, stiff and seem to have shrunk a bit. I say shrunk as I could see some threads I've never seen before, as seam was pull on threads. I went ahead and treated lightly with Leatherique only leaving on a few hours then cleaning as directed. This soften leather a bit.
After thinking about my experience, I thought perhaps I must use ever 3 months to keep conditioned. If this is the case I don't like it as that is just to much work & time. I also read about different coating modern leather has, which made me wonder if Leatherique is best for our us. This was a link
@abuck99 had provided me
Auto Leather Care Guide you can see what
@abuck99 had to say here in post # 66
Scored 2006 LC w/58K OMG Clean!
So I emailed Leatherique the Company my experience and waited for a response. It's been 10 days and no feed-back at all from them. This is concerning!
So that brings me here to asked those that have used what they are finding and how often are they using?????
