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Dying Leather Seats!

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Maverickflyer

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I have a set of Tan Leather seat I want dyed Black. I have seen some people do it themselves with horrible results. I want to get them done professional so they are done right. Has anyone done this or know of a place that will do it right? It would be a set of front and rears.
 
talk with hotdimmes, he dyed midnight blue leather seats black and they came out very well.


I hope your not dying SVT tan seats either ....
 
I would definitely get midnight blue seats (they are everywhere, if you are doing SVT seats that is)and dye those instead. Going from a light color to dark is supposed to be difficult and doesn't produce good results.

I used a kit from leatherique. It included cleaner, conditioner, dye stripper, and dye. The size I bought was supposed to be enough for a full interior, but I had a TON of everything left over. I recommend getting the 2nd smallest kit if possible. condition, clean(might be backward, I forget) sand lightly with dye stripper, brush on dye. voila!

I've only had one little spot rub off on the rear seat that I have to redo. It's weird because people rarely sit back there and that happened whereas I'm in and out of my driver's seat every day and it's holding up perfectly. I must have prepped it poorly or something.

The leatherique.com people were extremely helpful while I did the whole process too.

For the money spent, it looks good enough for the look I want and I was quite happy with the results. Reskinning seats is an option if you want it perfect, but a VERY expensive one. I got everything done for less than 300 including seats and dye kit.

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Maverickflyer said:
No these would be Cougar seats I'm dying. How long did it take you to do them?

Thanks for the Info.
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bought a week I'd say if you want to be thorough, condition, dry overnight, clean, 48 hour wait, strip, dry overnight, dye, dry overnight, dye again, dry overnight, install!
 
very nice work hotdimmes!!! i wonder if it would work on the dash too...i think its a vynl material. than you'd only have to do the plastic trim pieces w/trim paint
 
95pgt-t said:
very nice work hotdimmes!!! i wonder if it would work on the dash too...i think its a vynl material. than you'd only have to do the plastic trim pieces w/trim paint
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hmmm I wonder why I have a spare midnight blue dash in my mom's attic....:shrug::cool:

I've been trying to contemplate how I want to finish the look. Can't figure out what I want to do with the door panels/dash/center console. I tried some of the dye on the vnyl back of a door panel and it seemed to hold up pretty well.

My biggest fear is the vinyl paint on the plastics not matching the dye.
 
i'd just use the duplicolor interior paint. i've used it a couple of times and it holds up great if you prep the parts correctly
 
95pgt-t said:
i'd just use the duplicolor interior paint. i've used it a couple of times and it holds up great if you prep the parts correctly
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I've had mixed results with it. Used it straight up on my dome light surrounding and it came out beautifully...used it on the plastic trim on the seats(with bulldog adhesion promoter first) and it looked like a different shade and scuffs easy. :shrug: I need some more spare plastic parts to experiment with.
 
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