Automotive Interior Repair with The Interior Guy

I’ve run across this one a lot lately. Leather seats turning a shade of Blue on the lighter colored tan and gray leather seats. It’s what I call “Suit Blue”.

What this really is, is when the leather turns a blue color where your back, butt, or arm rests on the wet leather and the dye from your clothing is then transferred to the leather.

The dye from your clothing is actually dyeing the leather in your car. The leather soaks it up like a sponge, like I’ve always said “What you put on leather stays in leather”, and as you see it’s true.

Whats really bad about this is there’s is no cleaner to remove this from the leather without damaging the leather or the leather’s original dye, at least not one that I know about.  Your only solution to this is to have the seats, armrests, ect. resurfaced or dyed to bring it back to it’s original color. Read the rest of this entry »

Paint prep is the key to success in any paint project. Whether your painting the outside or inside of your car you need to have a good grease and particle free area for your job to be a success, and success is what it’s about when your trying to make money at what you do. Here a few tips for you to use in the interior of your vehicle, where most of your “slime” is located. The “slime” as I call it is all the silicone dressing that has been put on your cars interior to make it look new, and I use the word “new” very loosely too, to me if your car is clean you don’t need all that slime juice sprayed all over. Besides some of the new dressings are ruining the interiors, thats a whole other article. Read the rest of this entry »