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Leather Seat Wrinkles


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As seats like the ones in an IS300, with the leather pulled tight, start to get used and get older, its inevitable that the leather will stretch and that they will start to wrinkle, but my car only has 19k miles on it. It's to early, the backs of the front seats at the bottom front have started to stetch out as have the seats.

Even the back ones have a little, and they have only been sat in 2 or 3 times. Does anyone know how to shrink the leather to that it looks tight like it used 2?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions, its really starting to bother me.

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It it under warranty, i just took it in for the 20k mile service today and they are going to talk to their upholstery person about it, its not really wrinkled, just stretched enough so that there are some big ripples in it.

When you say clean it, what do you mean? I use wipes on it all the time...

if someone will tell me how to post a pic ill do it...

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks guys

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Im not sure you should use wipes all the time.....??

I just use a cleaning solution.(1-10 mix with warm water....)

You wipe over the leather using a cloth dampened in said solution.

Then wipe with cloth and clean water after a few mins....

It really brought it up well, and tightened the leather.

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I use a product called Glipton - available on Web - it softens the leather and mine has not streched in 64k (30k by me) - also smells nice IMHO.

They do a range of products and have a tel line for queries if you need it.

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Thanks guys, hopefully one of those will tighten it up a little. I just dont want to have to pay $600 per seat for new seat covers, (the leather) already got a quote from the dealer. Also had them check it under warranty, they said its just normal wear and tear so they can't do anything. Ay!

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