Automotive Interior Repair with The Interior Guy

Automotive Interior Repair is an on going learning experience and I have to say that is what makes this business such an incredibly rewarding business. I just got done with another training session and would like to welcome Mark Nussbaumer with Top Grain Leather out of North Carolina to the business. I have to say this training session went really well, in fact I learned a few things from him too. He really did his research beforehand and had also attended the IICRC certification program right before coming to meet with me, which was a huge advantage, not only for him but also for me too. He opened my eyes a bit to the repair of leather and helped me to look into a few new ideas in making our repairs last even longer and the leather itself last longer too. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are a few tips to cleaning those old grungy looking automotive leather seats. Now there are limitations to this, in some cases the seats are just dirty and with a little elbow grease and little know how you have new seats again. But there are the cases where a professional needs to reapply dye to the seat to bring back the original luster. “Rattle cans” as I call them which are aerosol cans of dye that you can buy at your local paint store which if you find the right shade can be used to freshen up a seat where cleaning just wasn’t enough. But I really do discourage this due to most of the dyes sold on the shelf are a lacquer base which can dry the leather out and cause it to crack. Read the rest of this entry »