Yesterday my son and I went to go get a haircut and were in a hurry. So we decided to stop a McDonalds for breakfast. We went through the drive through, big mistake!! We both hate McDonalds, but in the interest of time went anyway. So we eat in the truck, my son starts getting the food out of the bag as I drive over to the barber, and he sets the nasty, greasy, messy, greasy, stanky, greasy....did I say greasy?, steak and cheese bagel on my beautiful leather center console. Now it has several very dark, greasy stains on it. I called the dealer as soon as it happened (I was going to order a new one) but it was 220.00.

Does anyone have any idea what might get this out? Without making it worse. If it comes down to it I still might have to order a new one, I just want to try cleaning it first. What about Dawn? Has anyone had to clean their leather with anything stronger than Lexol cleaner?

Any and all suggestions welcome.

Thanks,
Brent

 

get yourself down to your local saddle shop and see what they can do, they are used to fixing these types of problems with the show horse saddles and will be able to help you out quite a bit. dawn would probably get the grease out but i'd be worried about what it would do to the leather otherwise.

 

For the love of God... don't use dawn!!! Leather is like skin, if you strip it of ALL oils and such, it will ruin it. Dawn is designed to remove oils and grease... BUT NOT FROM LEATHER!!!! Go wash your hands with Dawn... you feel that? It's DRY SKIN!!... it will remove the oils that are necessary for the leather to remain supple and soft

Stick with what PK said, take it somewhere where they KNOW leather and can hopefully help you.

Did I mention DO NOT USE DAWN?!?!??!??

RP

 

So, Rockpick. If I understand you right, are you saying "not" to use Dawn??



Thanks for the help, I guess I'll go to the Tack shop tomorrow.

Brent

 

Hehehehe, did I come across as vauge in that post? I always have a tendency to type something and it really not have much meaning... what I really meant to say in that last post was that I wouldn't recommend using dawn dish-washing detergent on the castano leather interior.

Sorry about that. I'll try to be more focused next time. LOL!!




RP

 

It's OK...we understand what effects a life amongst rocks can have on one !

 

This stuff is leather, not gold...

Just go down to the local shoe place or what have you and get some "Saddle Soap" this should get most, if not all of the lard out, allow it to dry and then put the recommended leather oil of your choice on to replenish the oils...

Good to go, now drinnk a beer!!!

Good Luck,

Chris (ReelWork)

 

Actually.....in actual fact, your prognosis was right but the analagy wrong.

Gold is actually a piece of p*ss to look after compared with leather.

Do you know that to remove scratches from a gold surface "Brasso" wadding...or whatever you call it over there..is excellent.
I just used it to restore the back of a gold watch and for totally minimal effort it looks like new....

BUT back to leather.
In some respects you are quite right.
The whole point of leather is that it is hard wearing and resistant to spills and accidents.
However having said that it only needs the application of the wrong substance to cause major problems.
However using reelworks advice about saddle soap REELY should do the trick.

Try this site for help...

http://www.leatherique.com/services.htm

Or....

http://www.leathermagic.com/

 

I would have to put it second only to flitz... I you haven't tried flitz, do yourself a favor and put it to the test...

Here's the link...

http://www.flitz-polish.com/?source=gg\

Oh yeah.. Flitz is not for LEATHER! Just about anything else though!

 

yes....have often used Flitz.....it's the best thing we have come across for cleaning the brass on our canal narrow boat, and wifey uses it successfully in her jewelry repair business !

Using Flitz on the brass air vents...sorry about poor pic.

 

i've been using flitz for years on my guns as it doesn't take the blue finish off. best thing is one tooth paste sized bottle lasts a lifetime as you only use very little of it each time.

 

First of all Chris, until you own a KR you won't understand the mentality of those of us that do..

Secondly, YES, indeed, the interior is like gold. It wouldn't be a KR if it weren't for the interior. Those of us that bought a King Ranch Edition bought a special interior. Taking care of it is, and will continue to be, at the top of most of our lists when it comes to our truck.

Again, until you own one, you REELY (thanks Lenny) won't understand.

RP

 

Dude, You need to lighten up!!! Have a bad day or something???


I could understand if I didn't give a suggestion on how to fix it yourself, or if I was ragging on the KR package, but I seemed to be the only one that actually knew what would work besides Lenny and I posted it up... That's strange since I am not a priviledged KR owner and just bought a lowly FX4 package since I like to hunt and fish.. Like it or not, regardless of how good the leather is, it is still leather and yes, it is fine leather... I happen to like fine leather - does the name Cole-Haan mean anything to ya? Well, I happen to like leather also...

Now, if I lived in a place where it's not so darned hot that causes leather cracks in short time and burns your butt, I would've bought one. Now, regardless of the obvious "mentality" that rears it's little head from time to time, I would never act like a 2 year old fighting over a popsicle if I did....


Later,x

Chris

 

But I like popsicles damnit!

 

We're good to go then...

How 'bout fudgecicles? Those rock(pick)! LOL

Later,

Chris (ReelWork)

Do we need to have a frozen snack thread???