When do you Leather Condition

[chefwong]

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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[Klasse Act]

I do it when I think about it and/or get bored, so basically I over do it

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[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.

[DUBL0WS6]

Theoretically warm or hot weather is better as it's the leather expands some and the pores are open more.

[DFB]

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.

[PA DETAILER]

I use Blackfire leather complete. After every wash. Maybe overkill, but seats are almost 6 years old and look and feel great.

BLACKFIRE Leather Complete 32 oz. (autogeek.net)

[chefwong]

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

[Desertnate]

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.

[Eldorado2k]

Once per year doesn’t sound like enough but time can fly in between reapplying certain things. Ideally I’d feel it should be applied at least 4 times per year.

Back in the days when I had my 1st Cadillac I’d wipedown my leather interior once per week using Meguiars Leather Wipes, so technically I was applying leather conditioner every single week and did so for years.

I used to squeeze every last bit of use out of those Leather Wipes, I would finish them off by using them on the rubber weatherstripping. By the time I was done they’d be balled up and almost completely black. I would even use them to clean my doorjambs. Lol.

[chefwong]

My fréquency on the Leather sealant:topcoat is about 3-4X a year...
But conditioner, 2X on the dailys.

I dunno. Back circa 2 decades ago -----as I look back and how I changed habits, I think one can over-do it at times.......
So in the realm of interior, I use H20 as my main cleaner, and use InnerQD or Cockpit or Leather Cleaner as needed....but don't necessarily use it for every weekend wipedown.
For protection (conditioner or sealant), same principals I suppose or trying the less is more approach....
And when these things go back to the dealer in 36 months, it's almost as if it's the same as pickup, minus a smidge more sheen/shine on the drivers outer bolster and 6oclock-12clock on the steering wheel, which is my main area of use.