Printable Version | Subscribe | Add to Favourites
New Topic New Poll New Reply
Author: Subject: Dying (sp?) Leather?!
liam.mccaffrey

posted on 5/7/18 at 04:15 PM Reply With Quote
Dying (sp?) Leather?!

I want to fit some newer volvo 960 leather seats in my volvo 240. Has anyone had any sucess dying grey leather to black?? Is it feasable?

Any advice greatfully recieved.





Build Blog
Build Photo Album

View User's Profile View All Posts By User U2U Member
jps

posted on 5/7/18 at 04:37 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffreyDying (sp?)


Indeed, isn't English great... Despite looking strange it's "dyeing"...

Only experience I have is of using the wrong colour shoe polish... But a quick Google suggests it's a common enough thing to do. This on PH mentions a couple of products (and a good analogy of "would you paint the exterior yourself?) https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=48&t=482197

View User's Profile Visit User's Homepage View All Posts By User U2U Member
Angel Acevedo

posted on 5/7/18 at 08:02 PM Reply With Quote
In my experience with shoes....
There will be some decoloring of the new color regardless of number of applications...
There will be color transfer to whatever rubs on it..
With those two in mind, I wouldn´t want to use it on seats...
Door cards and steering wheel maybe...
HTH.
AA





Beware of what you wish.. for it may come true....

View User's Profile E-Mail User Visit User's Homepage View All Posts By User U2U Member
UncleFista

posted on 5/7/18 at 08:13 PM Reply With Quote
Car interior leather "dye" is really a paint, it works really well. Covers easily well enough to change from one colour to another, doesn't transfer onto clothes etc.
Check youtube for videos





Tony Bond / UncleFista

Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...

View User's Profile Visit User's Homepage View All Posts By User U2U Member
nick205

posted on 6/7/18 at 09:34 AM Reply With Quote
Never dyed leather myslef, but...

Did ovloV 960's only come with grey leather seats (or do you already have the seats)?

If they came with black leather seats can you not get hold of a set of black ones?

View User's Profile View All Posts By User U2U Member
Angel Acevedo

posted on 6/7/18 at 04:58 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
Car interior leather "dye" is really a paint, it works really well. Covers easily well enough to change from one colour to another, doesn't transfer onto clothes etc.
Check youtube for videos


UncleFista.
Paint may look good for a while, but I have already seen examples of it flaking over time.
So it´s fading against flaking...

Liam.
Selling your grey seats and buying black ones may be the way to go...


Here in Mexico Black leather seats are not that popular ´cause they heat up pretty badly...





Beware of what you wish.. for it may come true....

View User's Profile E-Mail User Visit User's Homepage View All Posts By User U2U Member

New Topic New Poll New Reply


go to top






Website design and SEO by Studio Montage

All content © 2001-16 LocostBuilders. Reproduction prohibited
Opinions expressed in public posts are those of the author and do not necessarily represent
the views of other users or any member of the LocostBuilders team.
Running XMB 1.8 Partagium [© 2002 XMB Group] on Apache under CentOS Linux
Founded, built and operated by ChrisW.