Cleaning Alcantra Seats
 

Can anyone recommend a good cleaning product to use on the Alcantra part of my seats? They have a lot of bobbled areas of the material, what’s the best way to deal with this and give a good clean? Also the leather part has a few patches that have lost colour, can I just use a leather dye to cover those? Thanks in advance, Chris.

You can use a Bic razor to gently remove bobbles, & to clean it, I used a Vanish soap bar & warm water.:cool: Or you can buy a dedicated alcantara cleaner:shrug::cool:

Gliptone Liquid Leather intensive Cleaner (GT12) & Conditioner (GT11), as recommended for Aston Martin & Jaguar as well.
Easy to pick out from Ebay.

For the leather dye have a look at:
http://www.carleatherdye.com/apps/we...s/show/5763588
Perfect match for my Sandstone Beige seats.

Koch Chemie Pol Star

Raceglaze Alcantara Cleaner is great. Fortunately, a little goes a long way, as it is a small bottle for £12.95.

I can confirm that the Raceglaze Alcantara cleaner works well, and yes you do not need much of it to clean your seat fabric. I have just re furbed the seats on an MG TF with this product, then I purchased from good old Amazon, a 'Bobble Cutter' which is just like a small electric razor with a rotating blade inside and a catcher to take away all the removed 'Bobbles' it works exceptionally well and really you cannot do any damage with it, it leaves the surface just like new once you have cleaned it. Once you have cleaned it well, please allow the fabric to dry after, then you can use the little electric razor on it. The item is meant for getting rid of 'Bobbles' on jumpers etc, but seriously it is brilliant. For the leather I always use Gliptone leather cleaner first, using a small old toothbrush and a soft nail brush on larger areas, this then leaves the leather clean and ready for Gliptone leather treatment (which smells like leather) rubbed well into the leather and allowed to soak in for a while. If you want to recolour the leather, you can then do this with a 'ScuffMaster' kit in whatever colour you wish. Best way to do this is build up in layers using a section of foam and dab it on sparingly over time allowing to dry in between. If you wish, after you have built up the colour, you can carefully mask off the seat and then spray a thin coat over the final result. Once this has dried, treat it again with the Gliptone leather treatment. We do this a lot on customers vehicles and also all my own, it does work and does not leave it looking anything other than as new. Good luck.

How to get rid of those small hairlines?
 

The title says all.

Yes I know they aren' Alcantara, but I'm not too much out of the matter, talking about seats to be cleaned.

Here is the picture of the driver's seat (all the others are flawless):

http://aws-cf.caradisiac.com/prod/ph...2622dc.jpg?v=1

The explanation of the little colour difference (left / right) is due because the pic was taken while I was using Gliptone Cleaner (left) to begin with.

But what would do the best move to make disappear those disgraceful angel hairs?
Using a very thin brush & applying the so called sandstone leather dye (or paint, as I was told by a specialist)?

Thanks mates. :bowdown:

Thank you all, appreciated, I will get some on order :)

Good morning, The minor creases in the leather are going to be almost impossible to remove totally, if you use the Gliptone cleaner and then the leather care cream they also do, they will become less significant over a period of time, but to be fair that is a natural consequence of leather, it adds to the 'Patina' as it is called. To disguise them a little more you can go over it with a small sponge with the leather dye on it, but little by little is the best way dabbing it on and then allowing it to dry, followed on by more coats as required. The final stage, if you want to disguise it more, is to then spray an even coat of dye over the entire seat once finished. You can mask off the piping so you retain this definitive line. Furniture clinic (a company) do sell a leather filler, the only problem with this is that you need to use it very sparingly otherwise it can look odd, you would also need to use an adhesion promoter with it before the filler otherwise it will crack out over time. I personally think you would be better off with the cleaning process and then recolour using the sponge technique and then a light spray coat over the top, but obviously it's your choice. A continued use of the leather cream from Gliptone allowing it to soak in will give good results and will also allow the leather to become supple and soft again, thus stopping it cracking and creasing so much in the future. Hope that helps you?

FYI, the seats are not leather, only the base part where you sit:cool: