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Old 4th January 2016, 03:12 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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I've had some mould growth in the past, especially on the leather, but not quite that bad and not so widespread.
The really bad areas I saw were on the door shuts and bottoms of the door trims.

Cure the water ingress and dry it out (slowly) with silica gel bags. Keep an eye out for leather shrinking and peeling off the backing as it dries, you may need to soften, stretch and reattach some of it.

The mould will just go as it dries, hoover it all away. When totally dry check for staining and clean carefully and appropriately.
I think Alcantara just needs gentle sponging with tiny amounts of water and very dilute mild detergent - don't soak it.
Leather I use Woollies products to clean, recolour and recondition.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!

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