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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

Post by greencode » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:33 pm

So, I purchased some M Sports seats that needed a refurb. I started off my cleaning thoroughly with the Gliptone cleaners and then conditioning and then finally dying them with 5 coats of dye (at each stage of this I left to dry and also used a heat gun on low setting to speed up the drying process).

Went to apply the first of a few coats of conditioner after leaving them for 5 days for the dye to fully dry and what happens, the dye starts to come off when applying the conditioner! It doesn't actually look as though it's affecting the finish i.e the seats are still perfect but it's just a little disconcerting that this would happen.

I did try using water, to see if it would start coming off in a regular situation but nothing. So, I tried the cleaner again and the dye starts to come off.

Maybe it's because I applied 5 coats that it's just the top coats of that dye that are coming off.

Anybody else had this issue?

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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

Post by PerryGunn » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:51 pm

Have you tried an email to Gliptone to ask their opinion/advice?

Their customer service is supposed to be pretty good
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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

Post by greencode » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:58 pm

PerryGunn wrote:Have you tried an email to Gliptone to ask their opinion/advice?

Their customer service is supposed to be pretty good
Yeah. Just waiting to hear back from one of their technicians.

Just wondering whether it'd happened to anybody else.

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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

Post by Maniac » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:59 pm

My concern would be the conditioner before the dye.

I'd have thought clean dye then condition.

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Gliptone Scuffmaster Dye issue

Post by greencode » Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:02 pm

Maniac wrote:My concern would be the conditioner before the dye.

I'd have thought clean dye then condition.
What they say is to condition to get the leather nice and soft and then thoroughly clean with the intensive cleaner which I did around 3 times over 3 days so it really should have removed all of the conditioner.

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