V70: Leather care

[Dash300]

Originally Posted by Welton

Modern leather seats are coated from the factory, 'feeding' the leather will do nothing - the stuff will just sit on the surface and transfer to your clothing.

All you can do with modern leather is clean it and apply a protective coating - I use Gtechniq I2 Tri-Clean and Gtechniq L1 Leather Guard - which is anti-bacterial, stain resistant and UV resistant.

I love their products and have spent 2 years upgrading my entire car cleaning/detailing kit to their stuff, check out their range: https://gtechniq.com/products/

I am not connected to this company, I'm just a private buyer.

Exert from Gtechniq website about leather 'feeds':

Many leather products market themselves on how they feed leather, when in fact this is not needed. Modern automotive leather use synthetic fat liquors which do not evaporate. Any product that is designed to feed leathers will not be absorbed by modern automotive leathers but instead remain on the surface attracting dirt which will then act as an abrasive foreshortening the leather’s finish.

You are quite correct up to a point. The coating does however wear of with use. This is exemplified by the fact that my rear leather sets hardly ever get sat in and the coating does indeed prevent absorbtion of any gliptone applied.
However the front seats which are regularly scrubbed by use, sucks up the gliptone cream like a sponge so the leather effectively decides if it needs feeding.