I was hoping to get advise on what product to use. We have 10 years old F150 King Ranch truck and the front seats need help. We had a local company start re-staining one of the seat but they used products not designed for this leather. Instead of tan, the seat turned out reddish and the product did not even get absorbed into the leather, leaving the surface sticky days after application. The color was possible to wipe off with a wet towel. It is our daughter’s truck and she was concerned about the undesirable finish bonding to the seat and proceeded to wipe the whole seat with a wet towel, saturating the leather for 6 hours, making it very wet. She removed the unwanted products down to the original, faded leather.
She is driving to an out of state college in 5 days, so we don’t have time to wait for the seat to dry and try treating the leather again. I guess now we are looking for a way to help the seat dry without cracking and shrinking and last until next summer when she comes back home when we could have the seats restored.
Is there a product to apply while the leather is drying?
How about a product to help the seat ‘survive’ the year until it can be restored? It has been sanded by the local company in order to stain it, so it is ‘bare', without any protection. But if we wanted to re-stain next summer, would applying any conditioners prevent the stain from being absorbed in the leather?
I apologize for the long description. Can you recommend any products for us?
Dear Kamila,
See this link for all the solution for King Ranch leathers.
http://www.leatherdoctor.com/ford-ki...her-care-kits/
Lets have some pictures and I will share with you the priority of sequence.
1st - It is important to clean and pH stabilize the leather structure so that they would not denature accelerating.
2nd - the leather has to be rejuvenate so that it would reduce stiffness and prevents cracking.
The rest of the process for appearance can wait - structural integrity comes first.
Hi Roger,
Thank you for your prompt reply!
The attached pictures are of the passenger front seat that we are worried about. At this time the leather is extremely wet. The darker spots are from body oils and dirt that has not been cleaned. There is a small round hole (about 2 mm in diameter) on the right side of the cushion (2nd picture) where the person 'treating' the seat sanded through. On the left of the hole is a scratch about 5 cm long that is not going through at this time, but it is a weak spot. Those are so far the only two areas of weakness.
I will send pictures of the middle console and driver's seat in another email so pictures of the seats would not get mixed up.
Thanks again for your help!
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Dear Roger,
The attached pictures are of the middle console and the driver's seat.
When we purchased the truck a few months ago, the seats were extremely dry, cracking, almost black with stains. We cleaned them with King Ranch cleaner the best we could and have been applying the King Ranch conditioner regularly. At this point at least the stiffness/dry feeling is gone.
As you can see, the seats need much more cleaning/conditioning. Again, if we do anything now, it would only be to make the leather 'survive' until next summer when we can plan to take care of the seats properly.
We appreciate any assistance you can give us!
Sincerely,
Kamila
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