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Seat Conditioner-1995 850GLT

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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damnyankee
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Seat Conditioner-1995 850GLT

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What type and/or brand leather conditioner do you guys recommend?
1995 850 GLT

waynej
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Post by waynej »

Lexol is the best. Don't use anything with silicone it puts a nice shine on the leather and it also dries it out and it will crack.

blue_v70
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Post by blue_v70 »

To clean leather, dont use automotive leather cleaner. Use furniture polish with 100% content of orange oil or cedar oil.

After polishing with orange oil, use human product moisturizer such as sorbolene. Dont use too often, I use sorbolene once in threemonths.

Treat nature products with nature, it will look great.

waynej
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Post by waynej »

Here's the ingredients list from a jar of sorbolene.

Purified Water, Soft WhiteParaffin, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl, Alcohol, Liquid Paraffin, Ceteareth-20, Chlorocresol.

Are you sure all that stuff is natural?
If you want to treat your leather naturally how about saddle soap for cleaning, and lanolin or vegetable glycerin for preserving?

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Tsquared
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Post by Tsquared »

Another vote for Lexol
'11 C30 T5

'96 854 - died an early death with 184K miles. Killed by the front end of an LTD on a suicide mission (T-boned and both cars totaled).

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Post by blue_v70 »

waynej wrote:Here's the ingredients list from a jar of sorbolene.

Purified Water, Soft WhiteParaffin, Glycerin, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearyl, Alcohol, Liquid Paraffin, Ceteareth-20, Chlorocresol.

Are you sure all that stuff is natural?
If you want to treat your leather naturally how about saddle soap for cleaning, and lanolin or vegetable glycerin for preserving?
What i mean is, use nature product like orange oil or cedar oil to clean and rejuvenate, AND if you want, so this is optional, use sorbolene to moisturize once in 3 months. ANd yes sorbolene is mostly chemical but it does moisturize the leather, try it, the leather will feel soft.

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