Any experience with cleaning Toyota "soft tex" leather?

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Any experience with cleaning Toyota "soft tex" leather?

Whoops! My bad. Dang._.

It's funny because just a couple days ago I was in a similar situation in regards to finding out some new information I wasn't previously aware of... Long story short I was doing my homework in preparation for an upcoming detail on a late model black Mercedes Benz. And it's a good thing I did as I found out about ceramiclear and I too did a Whoa hold up there!

Lets just say I'll be going least aggressive method and then to the sealant

Do your test spot on this Ceramiclear, Ric. Often times these are crazy hard and require a pretty aggressive process to correct. The SLS AMG Gullwing we had in our booth as SEMA last year, and subsequently buffed our fully when we got back to Irvine, has Ceramiclear paint and it's crazy hard. We used the MT300 with microfiber cutting discs and M100 on it, and it came out absolutely gorgeous. We've also seen black Benzes that hazed a bit under heavy correction, even with Ceramiclear paint, but they tend to clean up pretty easily after that. Don't let any sort of anecdotal evidence you've read online (including my own comments here - those reflect experience on a particular car only) as gospel because that just isn't the case. The car you will be working on is the car you'll be working on, it's not the one I worked on, or the one someone else worked on, that behaved in a certain way. You need to discover what this particular car wants before you get too deep into it.

[Eldorado2k]

Re: Any experience with cleaning Toyota "soft tex" leather?

Thanks for the advice Mike. I ended up getting up close & personal with that Mercedes this past weekend.. After checking the identification plate for the paint code, it ended up having a 3 number code which didn't start with a C nor a 0... I'm thinking of calling the dealer and asking them for the official word on the paint.

As far as the car, it's a 2013 Mercedes Menz E350 Bluetec with black metalic flake paint. Swirled up pretty bad which is a shame, but with the owner taking it to his local handwash/carwash on the regular, along with not having a definitive answer on the type of paint as of yet we decided to just go with a mini detail for now...

Interesting note: After I had finished washing/drying the car, I noticed visible holograms on the paint. I even told my friend to have a look just so I knew I wasn't seeing things.. I ended up following up the wash with a wipedown of D115 and that really helped minimizing those holograms and any minor water spots that occurred due to having to wash the black car in direct sun.[I was forced to. Lol]

The biggest wow factor came thanks to the combo of D114 and D180 on the interior. I showed the owner how much dirt came off the seats after wiping it down with D114, and then I applied some D180 to give that black leather some much needed moisture and suppleness. I made sure to do a test area and ask the owner if he liked the results of the D180. He was like, Wow that looks Great! He said he'd never seen his interior look and smell that good