Leather Seats
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As I mentioned in a previous post, with the leather being sealed, nothing you apply is getting to the leather itself. Might as well stay w/ a 303 or other non leather care product to protect the same way you would your dash. Try this, take a drop of water and let it set on your seat. Does it soak in? If not its sealed leather and nothing you apply will soak in (leather treatment) either. Some higher end cars have open leather and would respond to leather treatment, Dodge is not one of them.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you Mike. I am an auto upholsterer by trade for the last 10 years and there are very few vehicles that come sealed and if a standard interior protection product is used it will eventually cause the leather to fail... I know this as it's something I deal with almost daily. Your new 3 series BMW and the lower end Mercedes are all vinyl, no more leather. Manufactures have figured out that by they can advertise a leather seat if it even has just one panel where your body makes contact with the seat. Now most of your new vehicles are using less leather and more synthetics and that might be what you are seeing as a sealed leather but it is in fact just a vinyl. With that being said, if you use a leather conditioner on a vinyl it will do no harm but keep in mind that the other way around WILL do damage eventually.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you Mike. I am an auto upholsterer by trade for the last 10 years and there are very few vehicles that come sealed and if a standard interior protection product is used it will eventually cause the leather to fail... I know this as it's something I deal with almost daily. Your new 3 series BMW and the lower end Mercedes are all vinyl, no more leather. Manufactures have figured out that by they can advertise a leather seat if it even has just one panel where your body makes contact with the seat. Now most of your new vehicles are using less leather and more synthetics and that might be what you are seeing as a sealed leather but it is in fact just a vinyl. With that being said, if you use a leather conditioner on a vinyl it will do no harm but keep in mind that the other way around WILL do damage eventually.
My wifes Lexus has a non sealed real leather, it allows the leather product to soak in. My Corvette has leather and you can see the shiny covering so a product like Aerospace 303 has left those crappy seats looking like new for a few years now and they have never seen a leather treatment as it does nothing for them due to the sealing on them. The Durango has the Nappa leather and its sealed, nothing will penetrate it. I use a leather treatment(Griots) as I like the smell of it, lol. I guess if in doubt and you use a leather treatment it wont harm a fake leather or a sealed leather. The water test, which I stand by is a great way though to see if the seat will absorb anything. If it wont, applying a leather treatment is not doing much good and a topical product like 303 or anything used on a dashboard will work as a protectant.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you Mike. I am an auto upholsterer by trade for the last 10 years and there are very few vehicles that come sealed and if a standard interior protection product is used it will eventually cause the leather to fail... I know this as it's something I deal with almost daily. Your new 3 series BMW and the lower end Mercedes are all vinyl, no more leather. Manufactures have figured out that by they can advertise a leather seat if it even has just one panel where your body makes contact with the seat. Now most of your new vehicles are using less leather and more synthetics and that might be what you are seeing as a sealed leather but it is in fact just a vinyl. With that being said, if you use a leather conditioner on a vinyl it will do no harm but keep in mind that the other way around WILL do damage eventually.
i have a '14 RT
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