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[Dieselman]

Not with those lovely seats and matching matts, you would never get the blood out of the stitching.

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I have a solution to keeping the seats nice and unmarked.

Soon after buying the car I cleaned the seats to remove dye transfer and a few other marks.
A "Detailing" thread I put up on another forum...

I thought what will be the best product to use to clean these, so opted for some diluted hard surface cleaner. I wont put a picture up, but it's £5 for 5 litres, dilute 100:1.
A rub with a damp microfibre cloth left them nice and clean. Sorry, no pic, you will just have to imagine a cloth.

The seats then looked very clean.

Being porcelain, the seats do suffer a bit of dye transfer from jeans, so I thought what can I do to stop this and protect the leather surface from abrasion.
I realise that leather needs feeding and not having any silage around looked about for some kind of special potion and found exactly the right thing. An aqueous natural conditioning product to feed the leather <snigger> with.

As this was a conditioning product as well, I was able to use it on the interior plastics and door seal rubbers.
It's given the piano black inserts a nice silky finish with no streaks.

The finished result.





The magic potion. I can sell you this for £10 a litre...you will find it can be used all round the house, even in the bathroom...

[russ92xmsed]

Nooooooo! Excellent.

[Dean]

Lol, she hasn't noticed yet then? Mine did but she didn't want to ask why I was disappearing out into the car on my own at night with her expensive lotion.

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[Dieselman]

Lol, she hasn't noticed yet then? Mine did but she didn't want to ask why I was disappearing out into the car on my own at night with her expensive lotion.

Going out with the pot to use it was probably ok, refilling it...Err...No..!

[Ciaran]

Will did your W210 have the red and green LEDs on the door handle which signified lock / unlock?
I remember that being the feature I was most drawn to on those cars, I was about 10 when they came out and thought it was the best thing ever, in fact I still dream about modifying the XM door handles to fit the LEDs

Ciarán

[Dean]

Don't start siding with her, your just making it worse.

D

[Dieselman]

Will did your W210 have the red and green LEDs on the door handle which signified lock / unlock?
I remember that being the feature I was most drawn to on those cars, I was about 10 when they came out and thought it was the best thing ever, in fact I still dream about modifying the XM door handles to fit the LEDs

Ciarán

Cars with LED's in the interior mirror used a flip out key and were fitted with MBSS 2 security. Mine was later so had an electronic key and no LED's, which is MBSS 3. A very secure system as it uses an optical transponder for the ignition and the CAN, so cannot be easily hacked.

Be aware, replacement keys are £220 and are coded to the car.

[Ciaran]

£220....ouch, although 3 figure prices seem to be the norm now, my dad was recently stung for £160 for a key on a Nissan Quasqhai, madness!

[Dieselman]

Try a new door card for a Mercedes. £450+.

[Ciaran]

:O

Ok you win!