Leather Seats

[acp2010]

Does anyone know how to safely clean leather seats, i have BMW X3 and the seats seem hard to clean. Plus my driver side door seems faded, anyway to bring that back and make it look better. Its tan interior , black exterior, 2007 x3
thanks;)

[al_macaroni]

I use Zymol Leather cleaner to clean my tan leather seats. Then, I treat the seats with Mothers Leather Conditioner.

Unfortunately, the tan seats tend to pickup the blue color from dark colored denim. The Zymol has consitently removed the blue tint from the leather. I make sure to follow up with the Mothers Leather Conditioner to renew any oils that the Zymol cleaner removes.

If you immediately buff off the leather conditioner, you will have more of a mat finish on the seats. If you leave the leather conditioner on the seats a longer period, before buffing and buff lightly, you will have a more glossy finish on the leather.

Thanks

[cubed]

Leatherique is a great product. Google it and order some. I use it regularly on my tan interior and have done so on my old audi allroad. very friendly to the leather and smells great too imo.

[X3emist]

Cleaner first then conditioner.

[UncleJ]

All three of the above are great choices IMHO. You won't go wrong with any of them. I have the sensatech in this car so use "Simple Green" and that works great.:thumbup:

[PPXYZ]

Does anyone know how to safely clean leather seats, i have BMW X3 and the seats seem hard to clean. Plus my driver side door seems faded, anyway to bring that back and make it look better. Its tan interior , black exterior, 2007 x3
thanks;)

You have a light colored interior and the door is faded? That does not sound right. You are under warranty so it is worth getting checked out.

Lexol has been around forever and it seems to do the trick. The thing about denim stains doesn't sound right either. BMW leather should last a long time. The biggest wear problem comes from the driver's seat left side bolster which you always slide over when getting in and out of the car. Even that should last years and years.

[T1T2GRE]

You have a light colored interior and the door is faded? That does not sound right. You are under warranty so it is worth getting checked out.

Lexol has been around forever and it seems to do the trick. The thing about denim stains doesn't sound right either. BMW leather should last a long time. The biggest wear problem comes from the driver's seat left side bolster which you always slide over when getting in and out of the car. Even that should last years and years.

....and the resident expert has spoken. Leather is a natural product, subject to wear and colour change no matter how stringent the "manufacture" is. Sigh.

[x3ronnie]

My tan seats show denim transfer.

[cubed]

my denim jeans show leather transfer and my butt has a burn mark on it and my transmission crawls out of the car and stalks me at night and I cant believe BMW would produce such a dangerous condition in their products wow I wish I knew this before I purchased this over priced German piece of junk that has leaky door seals and a sunroof that is below industry standard and why cant I get a date cause I only have a little halitosis and feeling really great since I stopped my medication I should have got an RDX FX RAV4 Q7

[enamoured]

my denim jeans show leather transfer and my butt has a burn mark on it and my transmission crawls out of the car and stalks me at night and I cant believe BMW would produce such a dangerous condition in their products wow I wish I knew this before I purchased this over priced German piece of junk that has leaky door seals and a sunroof that is below industry standard and why cant I get a date cause I only have a little halitosis and feeling really great since I stopped my medication I should have got an RDX FX RAV4 Q7

:rofl:

[johnnykuz@zoomi]

Back in 2004 I leased a new Acura TL with their "Camel" colored leather interior. I'm in sales and drove the car 52K miles that first year. Put so many miles on that just before 50K miles and warranty expiration, I had the dealer replace the leather seat surface on the drivers seat for stretching since I spent so much time in it. The issue though was the black line across the seatback from my black leather belt. They dye kept rubbing off and it was impossible to get it off that seatback. Tried Lexol and all the cleaners out there, nothing would take it off.

'05 X3 sport/premium/cold

[IMR]

Far and away the best leather cleaner & conditioner I've used is from Spinneybeck. It is the only product I've tried that leaves the leather looking and feeling how I expect it too. Lexol is too strong, IMO, and leaves leather feeling greasy. I use it on shoes & my spouse's handbag, but not on automotive leather. A friend used to swear by the Zaino stuff, but switched when I let him try Spinneybeck.

I use Spinneybeck with a Griot's cotton cloth, and the results are simply excellent. I use conditioner about one per year in our climate. We have Terracotta leather in the X3.

[PPXYZ]

LOL. Some of us have actually had BMWs with tan interiors and never saw a dye transfer. Someone else was complaining about a passenger in a blue swimsuit leaving an indelible imprint.

There is nothing like having people with no experience but lots of opinions.

:rofl:

I've always thought Lexol was pretty mild.