I'm looking for leather cleaner and conditioner for my new-to-me 2008 LS600hL. Interior is light grey w/black leather dash & black/dark grey (hard to tell) steering wheel. There is very slight wear to steering wheel, driver's seat & center console. I really hope to find a product or products that won't darken or change the color of the leather! I'm open to recommendations for a conditioner that can tint the worn areas that will look organic, not like I tried to dye the leather.
Also important is that it doesn't have a horrible smell!! TIA!!

 

check thread about leather repair for your steering wheel as for conditioners cleaners. Take sone photos and let’s see how it is before I can tell you what you need. So we don’t have bentleys so the leather is basically polyurethane top coat, which is what you want to hydrate. I don’t know if your leather any remedial conditioning. But the key is you need to clean it properly, which means natural hair brush, foaming bottle if your product doesn’t come with it. Brands I would use gyeon, G techniq. Colourlock. Rest are overly expensive and no reason for coated leather.

 

I used Lexol cleaner and conditioner on my seats. Both work pretty well.

 

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Leather conditioner is great however keep in mind that leather today is much different than before. Leather today is coated and products do not permeate and have as much effect on the leather as they used to. Most of the modern leather before and after shots of cleaning the leather is heavy surface soiling from everyday wear. Totally different than many years ago.

 

Every product I tried had color come off onto the cleaning towel, so I gave up entirely.

 

Ceramic coating designed for leather is the only way to go, it actually protects. But it's the same as when you apply ceramic to paint the surface needs to be pristine.

 

it really depends on why... what products did you use? Could be bad product, bad method or just the top coat has come off so matte varnish needs to be reapplied. Something similar happened to my centre arm rest but I fixed it

 

I tried Meguiars Gold Class and something else.. maybe 3M leather conditioner. I never had the color issue on any other car before. I thought maybe the crappy dealer I bought the car from put a cheesy black leather dye on the interior surfaces to make it look nicer before putting the car for sale.

 

I noticed if I use regular cleaning wipes, I end up with some color on wipes. But when I used Lexol with microfiber towel, I didn't have any of such problems.

 

could be , or could be what I said it’s polyurethane it’s not forever unfortunately

 

I have been using Leatherique and had good results!

 

I’ve used many leather cleaners and preservatives over the years. I’m currently using and liking Zaino leather care products. Lexus unuses a premium quality semi-aniline leather. The Zaino product definitely is absorbed to the materials and leaves a marvelous natural leather new car scent.

 

I also use Lexol products on mine.

 

Given the polyurethane clearcoat on ALL car interiors today (including "semi-aniline" leather), all of these products would appear to be a waste of money. I've used Lexol, Leatherique, Turtle, etc, etc, over the years and none of these cleaners did any better than warm soapy water (as the vehicle manufacturers recommend). And you can't "condition" polyurethane.