tnilc

Noticed this in my mom's 2014 ES350. I tried some Meguair's but it had no affect. Any advice?

Mattstermh

To feed off of OP's question, what's the best general cleaning solution for, say, a 15 year old ES? Lexol on microfiber?

RA40

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Does your mom wear denim blue jeans? I've seen blue on many seats and it comes with the territory of wearing jeans and other cotton fabrics that may not hold their color. Some of these dyes are easily transferred depending on their composition and some more than others. Wife had a situation with dye transfer to her purse from it rubbing on her jeans. The manager of Longchamp, a 30 year employee of the company from France relayed to her that jeans are notorious for doing this and same to car seats. Not as easily solved because leather, synthetics with pores will have varying levels of resistance/ability to retain dyes, dirt and such. She dropped her purse off for cleaning and they were able to remove about 80% of the dye but the remains were still there due to that particular dye on those jeans which were absorbed by the leather. Wife was pretty pissed and those $200 jeans went circular file. (Would have been even worse if her purse was a big designer one in the multi thousands of $$.)

Anyway, anytime I wipe the seat on her side I get far more blue off her seat then my side. I wear a variety of Levis FWIW. I've only used Lexol cleaner and the conditioner. Not perfect though workable. This is how the seats are in our 19 year old LS. There is a blue hue to them.

UDel

I used Wolfgang citrus leather care cleaner, a tooth brush, and microfiber rag on some really hard stains on lighter leather and it got them right out with a little work.

http://www.autogeek.net/wg2500.html

jfelbab

FWIW, periodic use of a water-based fluorocarbon protector will prevent permanent damage from dye transfer.

For removal of existing stains, I've had great results using Leather Master Dye Transfer Cleaner.

JDR76

I use this too and it's fabulous stuff. Quick and easy to use.

aznkorboi

I use a combo of leather master protection cream and 303 aerospace protectant and have had great results. Stratus grey interior ftw!

JamieS29

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That's happened to me since I wear dark jeans. I used the Meguiars Leather Cleaner band Conditioner. It's from their retailers line though, good stuff.