dash and seats

Hi everyone...

Seeking a little more advice, if I may?

This 94 lhs (new to me) is absolutely just like new. Not a
mark on the (plastic) dash, nary a rip or scratch or even
discolored fold mark in any of the leather. So nice that if
you couldn't recognize the year you might well think it was
brand new

Naturally I'd like to keep it that way. So, wonder if any of
you might have good advice on preventive maintenance. Will
any of the "moisturizers" (armor all, for instance) keep the
dash from cracking and warping? Or any other product? As for the
leather seats, any product that will help to keep them in their
current pristine shape?

Should perhaps mention that it sits outside; very soon to be in
minus 40 degree weather, then come summer in +100 degrees.

Thanks in advance, appreciate it.

Take care.

Ken

 

If you apply lubricate/sealers to the dash upper panel you may cause squeaks
down the road.

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler Tech

 

Garage it.

Moisturizers won't help that, you want plastic UV protectant.
It's sold in auto parts stores and also sporting goods stores
where it's used to protect fiberglass boats. Basically sunscreen for
plastic. Lots of products on the market to choose from.

alo vera gell, neatsfoot oil, once again there's lots of leather
care products available. Remember, leather is skin, basically
the same skin care products that soften and moisturize human skin
work on cow skin. Even human body oil, if you like to take long
drives with no clothes on, that will help. ;-)

I have leather seats in 2 of my cars, and I usually avoid the car
leather care care products and buy instead leather care products
used for boots, saddles, etc. The main reason is price, the auto
care care manufacturers seem to think that anyone with leather seats
must have money coming out their ass, whereas the sporting goods
places and shoe and boot places have always sold leather care products
to people.

Just remember that leather needs to stay lubed, you do that with oil,
leather doesen't care whether that oil is nice pleasant smelling
leather oil, or stinky filthy motor oil. If the leather is dry, it will
suck oil from whatever source it can find, grease from a hamburger
left on the seat, fingerprints from your hand, motor oil from the
gallon milk jug you filled with used oil and didn't wipe off and
carelessly set on the passenger seat. If you fail to keep it lubed
it will stiffen up then when you sit on it it will crack.

Ted