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Will49
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Leather Colouring

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Hi
I have a cream interior and the drivers and passenger seats need attention.
Is there a courant for leather out there which will match I wonder?
There are lots of companies that do colourant but they just says cream which could be many shades of cream. So far i cant find something more specific than that.
Thoughts appreciated.

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Furniture Clinic will match to a sample you sent them.
Numerous places on the back of panels you can trim a small piece off. They don't need much.

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Tanz wrote:
Thu May 09, 2024 21:52
As Tony says but with Woolies https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-13-renovation
I went with Woolies too. If you send them a sample from where the sunlight hasn't affected your leather, they will match it. My leather appeared to have darkened over the years. I found a suitable piece in my door card where the leather had been folded back around the interior handle aperture. The thread about my interior renovation is here:

https://lotusexcel.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=11660
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viewtopic.php?p=96570#p96570

Here's link to my findings when doing similar.
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Many of us in the BMW group have used Colourlock with excellent results. They are a UK company. They can match samples, or use the factory leather color code.

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Got a full kit from Funiture Clinic in the end which included an airbrush etc. pretty good for about a £100 and all back to me in 4 days
Cleaning and prepping wasnt too bad albeit time consuming. Very good match and doors panels done.
Seats next but thats a bigger job as drivers is sagging etc so a strip down to be done first.
I'm hopping a good clean and feed will suffice for the dash, consol and back seat.

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Sagging drivers seat may well be due to a split rubber diaphragm on the bottom that holds the foam up. No-one is making/selling replacements, and I've yet to find anything similar from another car that can be made to fit. I even asked Newton Commercial, who supply these for a number of more common cars (Triumph / MG) where they get theirs made, so I could approach them directly, but they wouldn't tell me. No amount of duct tape will hold it together (yes, I've tried that!!). Someone on here suggested Pirelli webbing, which will be my next attempt to fix this, if it ever bubbles up to the top of my priority list...
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