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Subject: [Healeys] worn leather- shoepolish?
From: mgcharlie at comcast.net (Charlie Baldwin)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:28:14 -0400
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Joe,
Did you use it for both leather and vinyl?
Charlie

On 5/18/2011 5:58 PM, Joseph Troutwine wrote:
> I have used their products on several of my vehicles and can recommend 
> them highly.  I put it on my wife's 911 C2 and it is wearing as well 
> as the original dye (it is showing slight wear in the side bolster 
> just like original).  Not only that, the interior is classic gray and 
> their color was an exact match.  Nice people to deal with also.
>
> Joe Troutwine
> 67 BJ8
>
> On 5/18/2011 2:26 PM, Peter Svilans wrote:
>> Charlie,
>>
>> I haven't tried ColorPlus .  Let me know how it works long term.
>>
>> Call me old-fashioned but I'm not overly thrilled with water-based stuff
>> generally.   If you look at their site, their emphasis is very much 
>> on the
>> leather end, with vinyl as sort of an aside ( SELL first and foremost 
>> ?)  As I
>> said, leather dye DOES stick to vinyl, but not long term.  It simply 
>> doesn't
>> etch into the surface.  I keep a "test piece" that I did some time 
>> ago, and
>> keep bending it when I pass by, and there's signs of it letting go in 
>> places.
>>
>> The dyes I use are fairly new high-tech products from Germany, and 
>> there's no
>> question whatsoever of "one size fits all".  Ve heff ze technologie   
>> :-)
>>
>> Peter
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