Seat Leather Care and Protecting

Morning peeps, I am wondering if someone had any advice for me. I park my 996 C4 in my garage, which for some reason seems to be a slightly smaller garage than normal and so it is fairly tight for me to get in and out of! My missus thinks it is because i am just getting fatter but i am sure the garage is narrower than most! Joking aside, being 6'6" always makes getting in and out of her like competing in the kryton factor! I have taken the step to staple foam to the slides of the garage so that i dont bash my doors on the brick work, which i thought was a clever idea! Basically as i slide into the car my jeans, etc must be rubbing along the top slide of the seat and at the weekend i noticed there was a bald patch starting to appear. Now my last car actually got a rip in the seat from this same problem but because it was a 13 year old beamer, worth nothing, i didnt particular care. Now obvioulsy i care about every little thing now and want to protect the leather as much as possible. I went into Halfords yesterday and they obvioulsy have a range of products from wipes to creams but i am wondering if anyone had any advice. I am need a product that will boost this area and almost bring it back to life and then also protect it because i cannot park anymore over to the left and despite what the missus says it is not becuase i am fat it is because the walls are narrowing! Any advice would be great as i want to get this sorted ASAP! Thanks

To repair the worn patch you can try scuffmaster - click here This stuff needs to be ordered in exactly the right shade for your leather. I used it on my seats and it's worked a treat. Click HERE Keeping the leather conditioned will help reduce wear. Liquid leather from the same people as Scuffmaster is good stuff. To protect your seat from the rubbing in your case of squeezing in might be best avoided by sliding on a seat cover before you park in the garage, then remove once in and reversed out again on the next ocassion?

Excellent, thanks for that! Your seats came up briliantly! Going to be ordering that now and will do it at the weekend! Yeah i was thinking about a seat cover as it is a small price to pay to just put it on before it goes in and then remove it when i reverse it our of the garage because i have to get in and out to open and shut the garage door, mostly because the missus doesnt know how to lock the garage! :? Thanks again and will take some pictures of before and after!

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As a slight aside, my wife has scuffed (and put a small, 2-3mm hole) in the front of her rather expensive leather shoes. I have absolutely no idea as to how you go about getting them repaired, so I was wondering about using this same product on the hole and the scuff. The main problem will be getting a colour match (as these leather places tend to want to know the car make/model/leather colour) and I'm also not sure if I can do a reasonable job myself. Any thoughts?

Don't bother with a repair. Sit her down and explain to her that if she can't look after nice things she won't be allowed to have them. It's the only way she'll learn ... let us know how you get on :wink: :lol:

Yeah, but they cost me £500 and she's going to insist on a new pair....so I view this as a bit of cost avoidance!!

As your wife has probably heard on several occations ... 500 quid for a pair of fu@%ing shoes! Though saying that, she's clearly getting the wear out of them

Yeah, a bit of a shoe and bag habbit. I'm fairly confident this isn't a unique occurance though.

I noticed on the Liquid Leather site, that they also match furniture colours as well as cars. They must have a huge colour database. Perhaps they could give you some advice on this one if you drop them a line.

500 squid on shoes :hand: Liquid Leather can make the scuff treatment in any colour at all. You either send them a sample of the leather, or take a shoe to them!!