| I had a pair of cobra leather seats from a mustang that felt like dried cardboard. I took them out of the car, cleaned with leatherique, and then conditioned them with leatherique.
I let them sit out in the sun for an afternoon, then wiped clean. They were still a bit 'paperish" feeling so I applied Griot's Leather Restorer (its thicker than than Griot's leather treatment).
The next day I let the seats heat up, applied the leather restorer and let them sit for a few hours. I then put some leather restorer in the palms of my hands and massaged it into the leather. This took a bit of time, but the seats came out looking great. They were black seats, so I used black shoe polish to fill in the 'cracks', followed by a shoe brush to buff the seats. Then followed by a final treatment of leatherique and let it sit for a few days before re-installing the seats.
They came out looking pretty phenomenal, I would say very close to new.
You don't have to remove the seats, I just did them to let them sit out in the sun.
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