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protovack · 12-07-2019, 11:03 PM

i wouldn't put a thing on the seats, personally. The only thing you can do to protect seats from cracking is stop UV rays from hitting them. Modern auto glass is pretty uv resistant, but putting a sunblocker in the windshield on sunny days is your best protection. Any product you buy is just going to gum them up and there are horror stories of supposed leather products causing discoloration, etc. The seats are designed to last without any special protection products. I would just wipe them down with a damp rag every once in a while thats it.

Now if you are talking semi-anilene leather like in high end luxury cars its an entire different ballgame. With those, you absolutely want to treat them, usually with something natural like a combo beeswax/mink oil product, and just a tiny amount. It will darken the leather but it will offer significant protection from spills, abrasion, etc. But these leather seats are not anilene leather, ie, no actual leather fibers touch you. It's covered in an artificial coating, and nothing you put on it will actually soak into the leather. It just sits on top of the artificial coating causing more harm than good. The market is full of $20 bottles of this stuff, nearly all of them are a complete ripoff and totally unnecessary. Many people will swear a particular brand is "good", usually its the one they happened to spend $20 on.

read this:
https://canadiangearhead.com/the-bes...-for-your-car/

12-07-2019, 11:03 PM	#8
protovack Drives: 2019 2LT 2.0T M6 Riverside Blue Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: WA Posts: 847	i wouldn't put a thing on the seats, personally. The only thing you can do to protect seats from cracking is stop UV rays from hitting them. Modern auto glass is pretty uv resistant, but putting a sunblocker in the windshield on sunny days is your best protection. Any product you buy is just going to gum them up and there are horror stories of supposed leather products causing discoloration, etc. The seats are designed to last without any special protection products. I would just wipe them down with a damp rag every once in a while thats it. Now if you are talking semi-anilene leather like in high end luxury cars its an entire different ballgame. With those, you absolutely want to treat them, usually with something natural like a combo beeswax/mink oil product, and just a tiny amount. It will darken the leather but it will offer significant protection from spills, abrasion, etc. But these leather seats are not anilene leather, ie, no actual leather fibers touch you. It's covered in an artificial coating, and nothing you put on it will actually soak into the leather. It just sits on top of the artificial coating causing more harm than good. The market is full of $20 bottles of this stuff, nearly all of them are a complete ripoff and totally unnecessary. Many people will swear a particular brand is "good", usually its the one they happened to spend $20 on. read this: https://canadiangearhead.com/the-bes...-for-your-car/ Last edited by protovack; 12-07-2019 at 11:13 PM.