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Old 21st November 2014, 06:03 PM
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Anybody recommend a very good leather dye . Getting cheap recaro heated leather but I can't be bothered with an entire cour change . Currently have platinum leather and new interior is cream and car is aluminium silver
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Old 24th November 2014, 07:55 AM
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Woolies stuff is really good: http://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-117-...enovation.aspx

But it'll be a heck of a job to do all the seats and change the colour. Sergey (notorious) has the code for Woolies Platinum to save you sending away a sample.
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Old 24th November 2014, 07:16 PM
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decided to go the other way , lower dash and door cards and carpet dyed black and leave door cards around handles and seats cream , hope it works
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Old 13th December 2014, 03:58 PM
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I've used one from frosts comesin a spray can, went from blue to black, only used one can on 2 seats. It was that good I showed it to my auto trimmer friend who recovers seats every day. and he didn't believe me! Until I found a bit in the old colour inside the pocket!
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Old 14th December 2014, 09:53 AM
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do you have any pics and a link to where i can get some , also have you had any issues with colour transfer onto your clothes etc
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Old 18th December 2014, 10:40 PM
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I used dye bought from eBay a couple of years ago on my BMW e46. Colour match was perfect, application simple, and results were easily accomplished, and absolutely NO transfer to clothing.







TBH I spent as little time prepping as possible and hurried the entire job, but in person it looked great. I could have easily gotten much better results, had I had more time and inclination!
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