The scuff marks and the hole in the drivers seat has been annoying me since I got the car. I found a leather repair kit on the Leather Magic website, so I decided to give it a go. The kit is about $US25, and shipping about as much again. You get 9 little containers of different coloured putty, glue, clearcoat, sandpaper, pieces of leather and backing cloth. You then mix the different colours to get the colour you want. Luckily the Zed seats are black, so there is no mixing. This is the seat before I started. Sand and clean it up a bit. Cut a backing piece of cloth, insert behind the hole and glue to the back of the leather Then cut a piece of scrap leather to fill the hole. Glue to backing piece. Then use a plastic spatula and put a thin layer of the black putty in the gaps and cracks Repeat several times until gaps and cracks are filled. Clean up with some alcohol and apply a gloss coat. With a bit of practice, you could probably get it to look almost as new. The putty soaks into the edges of the leather and seems very flexible and strong. You can feel a difference in the texture of the leather, and it is a bit stiffer around the patched area due to the backing patch, but if you don't go looking, you hardly notice. I did some test on a scrap piece of leather, with and without a backing patch. Even without the patch, the putty seems to hold the cut edges together surprisingly well. The big question is of course, how will it wear and how long will it last ? My seats will need to be redone pretty soon regardless, but if you are selling your car, it's an easy and cheap way of improving it's looks. I've got the Soarer to do next. The hole there is bigger, and the colour needs to be mixed to match the light blue/green colour of the seats. Probably impossible for me to get a good match, but I'll give it a go.
hopefully the leather on your soarer is still nice and soft.....i found the zed leather to be crap.....the overall interior of the zed was cleaner and so i take it the kms being at 110 are true....but the leather compared to my soarer which done 170 is a little more cracked and hard...also maybe looks bad since the cracks are a light colour and are easily seen with black leather.... Nice job thou......50 bucks or so for that will be worth it...especially a quick sell situation
my drivers seat is exactly the same , i would have tried that too but i am just going to get the trimmer to re cover that panel now
where did you get that stuff??? my seats dont have rips, but the cracks in the leather could use some attention.
Cracks should be easy to fill in. I've been using shoe polish evey couple of months. Works a treat on low wear areas, but just like the tip of your shoes you have to keep redoing the heavy wear parts. Try http://www.leathermagic.com/Pages/lthrrepkits.htm
great result, stef .. well done ... a more than useful resource for repairing those "nasties" ... thanks ...
No, but it is leather too, so I don't see why it would not work. Not sure if it would be much good on a badly dried out and cracked wheel though
