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How to Guide: Neglected Leather Rejuvenation
How do I know if my leather needs work? Is your leather stiff/cardboard like, with crack forming and an overall shine? Step 1: Thoroughly clean this seats with a vacuum Step 2: With a slightly damp microfiber wipe over entire seat and pay attention to the seems of the seat Step 3: Depending on the condition of the seat you can skip this step completely
Spray some leather shampoo onto a small section at a time, recommend something like the duragloss leather shampoo (strips dirt and grime without removing the good natural oils).
Then work this spray in with something like the mint leather brush (helps lift dirt without scuffing leather),
making sure to get all the seems, then wipe away with a microfibre cloth. Step 2 should be repeated until no dirt can be seen on the mocrofibre any more, 2-3 times. Step 4: Apply a high quality leather rejuvenation product, I personally found leathique rejuvenator oil amazing
For best results, use your hand to apply a generous amount of this oil into the seat, the more you work it, the deeper the oil penetrates (giggity). The higher the wear area, the more you should massage it in. If seats are in the car still, put all the windows up and park in the sun, for best results wait for 12 hours before cleaning off. I had the seats out and this worked best for me as I could do it in the comfort of my lounge room. For cardboard/stiff feeling leather, re apply the rejuvinator oil every 12 hours to the seats until they stop absorbing the oil. For my seats, I applied about 5 coats of the oil, each time I put less on as some sections still had not absorbed the previous layer of oil. Step 5: Removal of the oil
Same process as step 3, but you'll be surprised at how much dirt now comes out after the pore's have re opened, if you have the $$$ buy some leatherique pristene clean, but duragloss leather shampoo is still an excellent product. Make sure this seat has no dirt coming out what so ever at this stage. You should be left with a soft, supple leather. Step 6: Apply leather condition
I used a duragloss leather conditioner, you just apply a light coat of the whole seat with a soft cloth, the leather should absorb the liquid after a few minutes.
A before and after shot
For regular maintenance to ensure all that hard work isn't wasted (every 2-3 months, just do steps 1,3 and 5)
What coils did you end up getting? and how does it feel?
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Thanks mate,
I got Pedder Xa Xtreme coils, pretty happy with the adjust-ability as far as comfort and height changes. Would recommend even though they get a bad rep, think it depends on the dealer, I went to Ringwood and Ray knew his shiz
So much fun fitting it or so much fun now that it's on the car?
Gavin
So much fun now it's on the car, I didn't get to have fun putting it on and figuring out how to take the old one off haha
Turbo definitely spools faster and has slightly higher peak, went from 17 to 19.
What's next for me now gav? haha
Time for a slow audio upgrade, will be a weekend project over a few weeks, would prefer take my time and do it right the first time. So this afternoon I started running cables, found the engine bay fairly average compared to other cars I've worked on to find spare holes to run wire, but after pulling bits and pieces out I ended up finding a main wiring loom which entered the cabin underneath the weathersheid and popping out near the fuse box which makes it very easy to run down the side of the golf.
So pulled the airbox out, and weathersheild cover and a few small bits and bobs to find this channel running along to battery, which hides the cable/ protects it from the elements.
Drilled into this plastic cover, just big enough for the cable
All covered up
lots of silicon to ensure weather proofing for the dash electronics, never forget to waterproof holes you make
Great job with the build so far !! It's pretty amazing when you think those seats looked reasonably clean from the outside only to find with a proper clean they weren't. Wheels n Turbo look interesting too
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yep I'm almost certain you would haha 4 times a week train station car park haha
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