Hi
I have a cream interior and the drivers and passenger seats need attention.
Is there a courant for leather out there which will match I wonder?
There are lots of companies that do colourant but they just says cream which could be many shades of cream. So far i cant find something more specific than that.
Thoughts appreciated.
Leather Colouring
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Re: Leather Colouring
Furniture Clinic will match to a sample you sent them.
Numerous places on the back of panels you can trim a small piece off. They don't need much.
Tony
Numerous places on the back of panels you can trim a small piece off. They don't need much.
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Re: Leather Colouring
As Tony says but with Woolies https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-13-renovation
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Re: Leather Colouring
I went with Woolies too. If you send them a sample from where the sunlight hasn't affected your leather, they will match it. My leather appeared to have darkened over the years. I found a suitable piece in my door card where the leather had been folded back around the interior handle aperture. The thread about my interior renovation is here:Tanz wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 21:52As Tony says but with Woolies https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-13-renovation
https://lotusexcel.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11660
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Re: Leather Colouring
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Re: Leather Colouring
Many of us in the BMW group have used Colourlock with excellent results. They are a UK company. They can match samples, or use the factory leather color code.
Re: Leather Colouring
Got a full kit from Funiture Clinic in the end which included an airbrush etc. pretty good for about a £100 and all back to me in 4 days
Cleaning and prepping wasnt too bad albeit time consuming. Very good match and doors panels done.
Seats next but thats a bigger job as drivers is sagging etc so a strip down to be done first.
I'm hopping a good clean and feed will suffice for the dash, consol and back seat.
Cleaning and prepping wasnt too bad albeit time consuming. Very good match and doors panels done.
Seats next but thats a bigger job as drivers is sagging etc so a strip down to be done first.
I'm hopping a good clean and feed will suffice for the dash, consol and back seat.
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Re: Leather Colouring
Sagging drivers seat may well be due to a split rubber diaphragm on the bottom that holds the foam up. No-one is making/selling replacements, and I've yet to find anything similar from another car that can be made to fit. I even asked Newton Commercial, who supply these for a number of more common cars (Triumph / MG) where they get theirs made, so I could approach them directly, but they wouldn't tell me. No amount of duct tape will hold it together (yes, I've tried that!!). Someone on here suggested Pirelli webbing, which will be my next attempt to fix this, if it ever bubbles up to the top of my priority list...
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Re: Leather Colouring
I went with Leather Repair Company for mine.
Sent of a swatch of unexposed leather for a colour match and got a full kit to do it. found them very helpful and accessible and a good match and great products to use.
Sent of a swatch of unexposed leather for a colour match and got a full kit to do it. found them very helpful and accessible and a good match and great products to use.
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