Leather cracking and discolouring

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Dunkx

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 Manchester
Hi folks,

Upon giving my 2 and a bit year old, 20k Z4M it's first thorough internal clean under my stewardship at the weekend, I noticed that the driver's seat bolster nearest the door is going a blueish tinge, and the leather is cracked and looks as if the surface will start coming off shortly. I have cream leather. Has anyone suffered a similar problem - seems low mileage to me for something like this to happen?
 
I have to keep mine cleaned & fed every week. Even still, there is some wear on the bolster from getting in & out. Mine's got 16,000 miles.

I'll get a couple of before & after photos up once I'm back home on Friday.
 
My 04 is nearly 5 years old and seats are still like new OK she has only covered just under 19k BUT I do treat them every couple of months using LTT Leather protect quick and easy job and i will give them a regular wipe down with a damp leather.
 
mmm-five said:
I have to keep mine cleaned & fed every week. Even still, there is some wear on the bolster from getting in & out. Mine's got 16,000 miles.

I'll get a couple of before & after photos up once I'm back home on Friday.
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Cheers. Looks like you have the same colour combo as me... good choice! ;-)
 
I nearly destroyed my light grey leather, X5 drivers seat bolster, with a combination of black jeans with studs and the lazy manner of sliding in and out. Ended up with a series of scratches and black lines. Learnt my lesson and now never touch the Z4 bolster in or out and use quality leather cleaner and cream on a regular basis.

Seems a common weakness on the Z4 and my thinking is that the dream red will be harder to match and restore than black so taking extra care.
 
Right, here's a couple of pictures of the only part of my seats that are showing any wear (other than normal dirt).
Seat_1.jpg

Seat_2.jpg
 
The top mark on the first picture actually looks like the cream stain has worn through to the base :thumbsdown:

That's a shame because your car is pristine apart from those marks
 
Same here, jeans with buttons seem to cause all manner of grief for the drivers side bolster.

I have been masking the horror with some black dubbin which takes out the light marks but should really look into getting some gliptone, I hear its rather good :thumbsup:
 
i helped my brother restore some leather seats that had the same sort of wear. they were about 15 years old on a toyota supra. thoroughly cleaned them then we put a thick layer of shoe polish (cream colour may be hard to find??) on the seat and then buffed it all off. after a couple of applications it started to look really good. after that using he conditions ythem whenever he cleans the car and uses a little polish every now and again.

dont know what the results would be on a cream seat, but it was a cheap and easy fix for us.

you may just have to adjust the way you get in the car aswel!! :P
 
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