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When do you Leather Condition
Curious do you have schedule when you apply leather conditioner. To some degree, if it's a daily and sit's outdoors, it may dictate things differently.
Or a daily that get's alot of -seat time-
First real warm day today, with scheduled forecast of a summer's type weather tomorrow pattern starting this week. I did my leather conditioner today and should be good until the next year.
What determines it for me, is the weather. I've seen too many leather dashes peel from sun, heat....so it gives me the extra nudge to just keep it supple so it doesn't pull away from the glue .....best effort I suppose. I don't think conditioner really mitigates it - it's more the extreme heat from the windshield if you don't garage it . I do use a sun shade during the summer, whenever we are parked outside.
Basically my frequency is mainly driven to avoid this
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Re: When do you Leather Condition
I do it when I think about it and/or get bored, so basically I over do it
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Re: When do you Leather Condition
I gotta do more reading:youtube:revisit on colourlock leather shield on which I had re-topcoated back in February (aka, just 2 months ago).
Was slightly concerned but the conditioner took in just fine on all surfaces.....which is slightly surprising as passenger and rear seats have seen nil-none wear/use just since 60-75'ish days when it was re-top coated
I cannot confirm if the topcoat is shield. I do recall it wasn't the same wording - product verbiage listed on TRC site, as I grabbed it from TRC site (which is no longer there) and while TRC has it colourlock branded, it was name Colourlock Sealant.
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Theoretically warm or hot weather is better as it's the leather expands some and the pores are open more.
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Originally Posted by chefwong
I gotta do more reading:youtube:revisit on colourlock leather shield on which I had re-topcoated back in February (aka, just 2 months ago).
Was slightly concerned but the conditioner took in just fine on all surfaces.....which is slightly surprising as passenger and rear seats have seen nil-none wear/use just since 60-75'ish days when it was re-top coated
I cannot confirm if the topcoat is shield. I do recall it wasn't the same wording - product verbiage listed on TRC site, as I grabbed it from TRC site (which is no longer there) and while TRC has it colourlock branded, it was name Colourlock Sealant.
TRC renamed the ColourLock products to apparently make them more identifiable. All it has done is created confusion in my opinion. Now, for some reason neither product is on the TRC website.
Leather Shield / Top Coat is the "top coat" to protect against dye transfer and abrasion during the first three years.
Leather Conditioner / Protector is used after the first three years. You can also top Protector with Shield, but I don't bother.
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I use Blackfire leather complete. After every wash. Maybe overkill, but seats are almost 6 years old and look and feel great.
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I need to do a water droplet test after the recent Shield (Aka, TRC rename of Sealant) post yesterdays app when I get back
I don't catch or remember the details often but seat of the pants - feedback - bolster is a bit slicker. Maybe slickness is what they define as to help dye:abrasion in the product indicator - not sure about water repellency yet. To be revisited.
Since the condiitioner did take:soak in, me wonders how well or not the claims on Shield is. All I really care about is not liquid but anything to help mitigate outer bolster or center armrest wear......even though I do the scooch in/out (derrier up in the in the air) as habit already
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My rule of thumb is at least twice a year. The product I use is a combination leather cleaner and conditioner, so the leather gets conditioned every time I think I need to deep clean the leather. The one exception to this is frequently touched surfaces like a steering wheel or shift lever. Those get hit quite often, and in the case of my car, after almost every race event since my hands get pretty dirty.
I tend to keep our interiors and leather pretty clean and frequently wipe down the interior using cleaning/protectant product so I don't break out the leather cleaner all that often.
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