Leather Dye - what's best?

[rdarlington]

Dave, without a doubt it is Acura Charcoal 17333. Mine came in today. I sprayed some on a piece of card stock and it didn't look right at first, but looked really close when dry. I gave it a chance and sprayed my passenger knee pad where it was stained brown on top. It erased the brown and blends in perfectly with the rest of the knee pad. I can't tell where the paint ends and the vinyl starts -it's that good.

This is the exact stuff I ordered:
http://www.amazon.com/Sem-Products-1...l/dp/B000H6PUO

[sdg3205]

That's great news! I used it in my dash, binnacle and knee pads. Now I just have to get a leather dye matched that well.

Toby sent up a swatch that I'm passing on to the dye maker at Leatherique.

[Rich_NYS]

That's great news! I used it in my dash, binnacle and knee pads. Now I just have to get a leather dye matched that well.

Toby sent up a swatch that I'm passing on to the dye maker at Leatherique.

Dave,

Did you get the dye you wanted, and did you dye your seats? I've been using the Leatherique dye; I've done one seat so far, and used it on the vinyl parts as well as the leather. So far, I really like it.

I used SEM on the interior of my last car, but I'm planning to use Leatherique dye on the interior of 4728. In addition to what could be a better result, the vinyl & leather can be dyed without coloring the stitching. I'll probably do a knee pad & give it a "quasi stress test" for comparison against how well SEM bonded.

Reading this thread, it appears Leatherique didn't previously have DeLorean Grey until Toby sent a swatch....thanks for helping to make that happen!

Pics for comparison (lighting is fluorescent...I'll soon bring the pieces out into natural light to see how they look.)



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[sdg3205]

Yes the dye worked out very well. I'm very happy with it!

I actually ended up sending a swatch with SEM though because I wanted everything to match since I was doing the vinyl with the SEM anyway. Also, the grey leather used in our cars seemed to have a lot of variance.