@@dmark4203 leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/ They also have a custom match service where you mail in a sample and they'll match the dye to that sample.
Wish I could do up my black leather, live in an apartment building-no where to do it.looks fantastic,should have shown them back in the car.Realy nice job
Awwww can you please tell me if there’s a place I can take my little VW bug to have this done? I have a 2002 Special Edition Custom Double Yellow Turbo Beetle and the yellow on the black & yellow custom leather seats has become so worn looking. I took my car to a detail shop and he said he could put cleaner on them but that’s about it. I know they need more than just cleaner, more like dye. You did such a great job here. Can you please help? Thank you.
Check Google Maps for a "Car Audio" shop, call them and see if they have recommendations for a shop that can do car leather repair. When they repair the leather they'll have to dye it so they should be able to restore your leather using dye. Alternatively, you could also get new leather from a company like lseat.com.
Hi Randy, just watched your whole project, and you've inspired me to do the same to my mustang. I'd love any tips you could give me since you went through the whole thing. Did the color hold up with use over time? Thanks for sharing!
I used A LOT of dye - probably because I sprayed it. I used at least 64oz of dye. I think a sponge is great! A roller sponge might work even better with less wasted dye.
@@Unknown27373 132oz is not a bad idea. You won't have to order several times if you do need more. If you're doing your door cards too then just go ahead and get the 132oz of dye.
It's called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card to Leather World Tech and they matched it to the card. This is the color I got matched: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7
Thanks Mark! The color is called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card from Lowe's (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) to Leather World Tech and they matched dye to the card. You'll need their deluxe kit (leatherworldtech.com/custom-color-matched-deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) along with a top coat (leatherworldtech.com/top-coat/). I used an air gun to do all my dying but after watching some other videos seems you can use the white foam pad to wipe on dye. In case you'll get some good results! Definitely send some pictures when you finish!
Tomorrow I'm actually selling the car to a friend of mine. I'll be making a follow up video of the interior before that so stay tuned! It's been roughly 8 months since I finished the dye job. Also, since a friend is buying it, I'm hoping that I'll be able to see the car in a couple years and we can do yet another follow up.
I think so! A few places aren't perfect. Specifically anywhere that there were deep cracks in the leather. But I think I could have applied the dye better and that would have prevented the dye from cracking there. I'll try and show those in detail and what I would have done differently.
Hey man, thanks! Passenger and rear seats are flawless however the drivers seat does have some cracks. I'm thinking the cracks were there before I dyed them and the dye spanned the crack. Then given enough flex and time it cracked them. I'm planning on sanding the cracks down just a bit and then using leather filler and re-dyeing. I think if I had used leather filler in those cracks and used lighter coats of dye it wouldn't have cracked open. Other than that everything else is holding up well! Thanks for watching!
@@TheNewMechanic sorry for the late response, glad to see every seat minus the drivers held up, did you end up sanding, refilling and dyeing the drivers seat again? All I could think of is possibly diluting the paint with additional water to give it more flex. Currently holding on to grey m3 seats and I'm afraid to spray them haha, but all in all your seats came out wonderfully
@@KappnSkips I did not end up re-dying. But what you said was my exact plan if I did. I think starting with grey seats would have helped SIGNIFICANTLY! I wouldn't expect any cracks to be as apparent and you'd need less dye than I did. Also thinking if you diluted the dye, as you said, it would help to get thinner layers which would be good for the final finish.
Hey thanks for watching! It's actually a custom-matched color that I had Leather World Technologies (leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) make for me. I used a paint card that I got at Lowes of "Japanese Koi" from Behr paints (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and sent it to them. If you have any questions for them definitely reach out. I spoke with Shawn from Leather World Tech and he was extremely helpful. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!
They look pretty good! They're not perfect and there's some cracking that I could have done slightly better but overall they still look good! Here's a follow up video after about 8 months of use: th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
Little advise: be a little more frugal with the adhesion promoter (here much is to much, it's no paint) , next time first use a light color primer (white or light gray) since you have black and want to go to a light tan color. After the color layer it's best to use a clear coat (gloss, matt whatever you prefer).
Hey thanks for watching! I used a cheap spray gun from harbor freight (www.harborfreight.com/120-cc-hvlp-touch-up-air-spray-gun-61473.html) at around 25 to 30 psi. Good luck on your project!
Hey not sure I understand the question. I cleaned the leather, then sprayed adhesion promoter, then dyed the leather, then put a top coat on (that was in later episodes).
I think it would have! At the time I thought the dye would work well enough on it's own, but after doing it I think a white dye would have been "thicker" and allowed the orange dye to work better with fewer coats.
Thanks for watching! Definitely need a top coat. Good catch! I put the top coat on in later videos - made a few too many videos for this project, whoops. I ended up buying a LOT of dye. I used something like 96oz of dye. I think that was mostly due to starting with black leather. I'm thinking if I used a white base coat it would have worked better with much less dye. And the color is a custom color match to a paint card named "Japanese Koi" (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7).
@@myguncallstheshots7896 To go from Black to Blue, probably 64oz. I would recommend using the sponge to apply the dye rather than spraying. Spraying seemed to waste a lot of dye. Also I'd HIGHLY recommend the adhesion promotor, at the very least in the high wear/use areas. For example, the door handles I didn't use it and I likely didn't use light enough coats and it's started the peel. However the seats look good and I used it there.
Do you find spraying is key? Im currently testing my rear bench with the sponge and when it dries the color change is just not noticeable enough. (going from dark grey to black..)
How many coats have you tried? The first 2 coats you won't see much of a change. I'd expect thinner coats to adhere better and have a better finish but obviously less of a color change per coat. Spraying took a LOT of coats to go from black to orange.
Hey thanks for watching! It's actually a custom-matched color that I had Leather World Technologies (leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) make for me. I used a paint card that I got at Lowes of "Japanese Koi" from Behr paints (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and sent it to them. If you have any questions for them definitely reach out. I spoke with Shawn from Leather World Tech and he was extremely helpful.
Thanks! It's called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card to Leather World Tech and they matched it to the card. This is the color I got matched: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7
I ordered my dye from leatherworldtech.com/. I had them match it to a "Japanese Koi" paint card that I got from Lowes (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7).
Yessir! I just went through my videos and I don't think I showed that I applied a top coat. :facepalm: I'll go ahead and add to all my descriptions exactly what I used, including the top coat. This is the top coat I used: "Satin - Low Gloss" leatherworldtech.com/top-coat/
Hey just saw your comment! The places where I used the adhesion promotor, cleaned the leather well, and applied the dye in light coats are holding up really well! I'm really only having issues in two places. On the drivers seat there were some cracks in the leather and I applied the dye too thick. It caused the dye to span the crack. Just like leather, the cured dye is very flexible but not really stretchy. So each time I sat in the seat it would tug at those cracks to open up a little bit and after enough times the dye cracked open and you can see the black leather underneath. Also, the top coat really protects the dye so you could rub a white cloth on it and you wouldn't get dye coming off. If I were to do this again, I would probably use the foam pad that came with my kit to apply the dye. I was worried it would leave streaks which is why I opted to spray. However, I realized afterwards that the streaks would go away as the dye built up. But using the pad would have helped to prevent me from applying thick coats which are what caused the dye to bridge the cracks rather than lay in the cracks.
I agree! I think the black is poking through because I didn't use some really thin coats of a base like white. I also think if I would have used a sponge to apply the dye it would have filled any cracks rather than bridging them. And then when you sit on the seat it would stretch the cracks and cause the dye that bridged the crack to crack and expose the black.
Yea! I originally ordered cinnamon but pretty sure they mixed up the wrong dye which was more of a tan color. You can see that in Part 2 or 3, I believe (I did too many parts, whoops). When I returned the tan dye I asked them to mix up a custom orange (Japanese Koi: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and that's what I got. I'm really happy with out it turned out. As for the primer: I probably should have started with a white primer so I didn't need as much dye as I ended up buying. Live and learn :)
I agree with you; they look amazing. Cannot wait to watch part 5.
Can you do a light blue shade?
Yea you can do just about any color you want.
Where do I get the colors ?
@@dmark4203 leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/
They also have a custom match service where you mail in a sample and they'll match the dye to that sample.
Go vols!
Wish I could do up my black leather, live in an apartment building-no where to do it.looks fantastic,should have shown them back in the car.Realy nice job
I want my seat like those bro!!! Where I can get them done in San Bernardino Ca??
It would be cool to do mine blue
You could do Laguna Seca Blue! Check out this LSB M3 with LSB seats! bringatrailer.com/listing/2004-bmw-m3-coupe-71/
Awwww can you please tell me if there’s a place I can take my little VW bug to have this done? I have a 2002 Special Edition Custom Double Yellow Turbo Beetle and the yellow on the black & yellow custom leather seats has become so worn looking. I took my car to a detail shop and he said he could put cleaner on them but that’s about it. I know they need more than just cleaner, more like dye. You did such a great job here. Can you please help? Thank you.
Check Google Maps for a "Car Audio" shop, call them and see if they have recommendations for a shop that can do car leather repair. When they repair the leather they'll have to dye it so they should be able to restore your leather using dye. Alternatively, you could also get new leather from a company like lseat.com.
Hi Randy, just watched your whole project, and you've inspired me to do the same to my mustang.
I'd love any tips you could give me since you went through the whole thing.
Did the color hold up with use over time?
Thanks for sharing!
pls Do an update to see if the paint holds
Hey Edwin! I am planning on it. Life's just been busy.
Hey Edwin! Sorry it took so long but I finally posted a video about how well the dye has been holding up: th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
Can you do it with a sponge? Also how much did you use in oz? Or pounds or something like that
I used A LOT of dye - probably because I sprayed it. I used at least 64oz of dye. I think a sponge is great! A roller sponge might work even better with less wasted dye.
That’s very helpful I was about to buy 132oz of dye to dye my front and back e36 seats lol
@@Unknown27373 132oz is not a bad idea. You won't have to order several times if you do need more. If you're doing your door cards too then just go ahead and get the 132oz of dye.
They came out amazing great color
Thanks!!
What's the name of the color?
where can i find that color
It's called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card to Leather World Tech and they matched it to the card. This is the color I got matched: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7
@@TheNewMechanic ´Thank you for your great help, really thank you
After watching this video, I wanted to get the exact color for my BMW, prefect job,
Where can I get this exact package, I live in Florida.
Thanks Mark! The color is called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card from Lowe's (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) to Leather World Tech and they matched dye to the card. You'll need their deluxe kit (leatherworldtech.com/custom-color-matched-deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) along with a top coat (leatherworldtech.com/top-coat/). I used an air gun to do all my dying but after watching some other videos seems you can use the white foam pad to wipe on dye. In case you'll get some good results! Definitely send some pictures when you finish!
@@TheNewMechanic you're the best 👍
With what will you paint plastic and vinly black?Regards...great work
The plastic parts in the interior I used a black paint. Some of the vinyl parts I used black dye. It seems to have bonded well.
Amigo algun link para comprar los productos
All the links are in the description :)
theres still a lil bleed through but they look great.
What color is this Modena? Amazing results
the major question...is it falling off in a week?would love an update years down road to if its holding up
Tomorrow I'm actually selling the car to a friend of mine. I'll be making a follow up video of the interior before that so stay tuned! It's been roughly 8 months since I finished the dye job.
Also, since a friend is buying it, I'm hoping that I'll be able to see the car in a couple years and we can do yet another follow up.
@@TheNewMechanic right on..so 8 months so far so good??
I think so! A few places aren't perfect. Specifically anywhere that there were deep cracks in the leather. But I think I could have applied the dye better and that would have prevented the dye from cracking there. I'll try and show those in detail and what I would have done differently.
Hey Mike! I finally posted a video of how the leather is holding up th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
Wow mane you did the damn thang on those seats 🤩
Looking great fella
Thanks!
They look amazing,
Thanks!
Hey brotha these seats are beautiful, any cracks or noticeable changes/paint transfer after having them for a couple months?
Hey man, thanks! Passenger and rear seats are flawless however the drivers seat does have some cracks. I'm thinking the cracks were there before I dyed them and the dye spanned the crack. Then given enough flex and time it cracked them. I'm planning on sanding the cracks down just a bit and then using leather filler and re-dyeing. I think if I had used leather filler in those cracks and used lighter coats of dye it wouldn't have cracked open. Other than that everything else is holding up well! Thanks for watching!
@@TheNewMechanic sorry for the late response, glad to see every seat minus the drivers held up, did you end up sanding, refilling and dyeing the drivers seat again? All I could think of is possibly diluting the paint with additional water to give it more flex. Currently holding on to grey m3 seats and I'm afraid to spray them haha, but all in all your seats came out wonderfully
@@KappnSkips I did not end up re-dying. But what you said was my exact plan if I did. I think starting with grey seats would have helped SIGNIFICANTLY! I wouldn't expect any cracks to be as apparent and you'd need less dye than I did. Also thinking if you diluted the dye, as you said, it would help to get thinner layers which would be good for the final finish.
Hello..can i learn the code of the seat paint
Hey thanks for watching! It's actually a custom-matched color that I had Leather World Technologies (leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) make for me. I used a paint card that I got at Lowes of "Japanese Koi" from Behr paints (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and sent it to them. If you have any questions for them definitely reach out. I spoke with Shawn from Leather World Tech and he was extremely helpful. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!
@@TheNewMechanic Thank you very much for your interest. I have no other questions.
Can you give me a list of all the stuff you use, and where you got them?
How are they 1 year later?
They look pretty good! They're not perfect and there's some cracking that I could have done slightly better but overall they still look good!
Here's a follow up video after about 8 months of use: th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
Little advise: be a little more frugal with the adhesion promoter (here much is to much, it's no paint) , next time first use a light color primer (white or light gray) since you have black and want to go to a light tan color. After the color layer it's best to use a clear coat (gloss, matt whatever you prefer).
Thanks Frank! Good to know! I figured about the light color primer (only after I was done) but didn't realize I used too much adhesion promoter :)
primer with a dash of the color you will use
What gun did you use to spray with and how many psi. Please let me know the whole gun set up
Hey thanks for watching! I used a cheap spray gun from harbor freight (www.harborfreight.com/120-cc-hvlp-touch-up-air-spray-gun-61473.html) at around 25 to 30 psi. Good luck on your project!
Really Nice Work!!!!!!!
Sorry to ask you another question, what was it for there to be here.after . that you cleaned it
Hey not sure I understand the question. I cleaned the leather, then sprayed adhesion promoter, then dyed the leather, then put a top coat on (that was in later episodes).
How are the results holding up?
Hey! Here's my follow up video on the dyed seats:
th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
Looks WOW! How is the result after sometime? You should use good sealer to protect the new paint.
Wouldn’t a light primer would’ve cut the coat amounts???
I think it would have! At the time I thought the dye would work well enough on it's own, but after doing it I think a white dye would have been "thicker" and allowed the orange dye to work better with fewer coats.
would you saved time and money if you just dyed it white first?
I believe it would have. Live and learn!
Don't you need a top coat for this ? How much dye did you need in total ? And that must be a Mondena interior color
Thanks for watching! Definitely need a top coat. Good catch! I put the top coat on in later videos - made a few too many videos for this project, whoops. I ended up buying a LOT of dye. I used something like 96oz of dye. I think that was mostly due to starting with black leather. I'm thinking if I used a white base coat it would have worked better with much less dye. And the color is a custom color match to a paint card named "Japanese Koi" (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7).
@@TheNewMechanic would you say 32oz works for the entire car?
@@AriVovp Probably not for a color change. But if you're just re-dyeing the same color then that would probably be fine.
@@TheNewMechanic About how much dye do you think I'd need to dye my front two black seats blue? And do you think the adhesive is required?
@@myguncallstheshots7896 To go from Black to Blue, probably 64oz. I would recommend using the sponge to apply the dye rather than spraying. Spraying seemed to waste a lot of dye. Also I'd HIGHLY recommend the adhesion promotor, at the very least in the high wear/use areas. For example, the door handles I didn't use it and I likely didn't use light enough coats and it's started the peel. However the seats look good and I used it there.
Do you find spraying is key? Im currently testing my rear bench with the sponge and when it dries the color change is just not noticeable enough. (going from dark grey to black..)
How many coats have you tried? The first 2 coats you won't see much of a change. I'd expect thinner coats to adhere better and have a better finish but obviously less of a color change per coat. Spraying took a LOT of coats to go from black to orange.
Hi , what is the name color ? Or code ?
Hey thanks for watching! It's actually a custom-matched color that I had Leather World Technologies (leatherworldtech.com/deluxe-leather-repair-kit/) make for me. I used a paint card that I got at Lowes of "Japanese Koi" from Behr paints (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and sent it to them. If you have any questions for them definitely reach out. I spoke with Shawn from Leather World Tech and he was extremely helpful.
So Impressive 👀👍
Fam I really love that color, what is it?
Thanks! It's called Japanese Koi. I sent a paint card to Leather World Tech and they matched it to the card. This is the color I got matched: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7
What dye did you use?
I ordered my dye from leatherworldtech.com/. I had them match it to a "Japanese Koi" paint card that I got from Lowes (www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7).
they look great. Do you normally spray some sealer or clear coat last?
Yessir! I just went through my videos and I don't think I showed that I applied a top coat. :facepalm: I'll go ahead and add to all my descriptions exactly what I used, including the top coat.
This is the top coat I used:
"Satin - Low Gloss"
leatherworldtech.com/top-coat/
SPray for leather?
Love it!! Very nicee greetings from germany
Thanks for watching! Awesome to see viewers from outside the US :)
Love it only if it could be more caramellic *? Haha don’t even know what’s the right word for it. But greeting from SF !
Doesn’t the color comes off like easily sooner ?
Hey just saw your comment! The places where I used the adhesion promotor, cleaned the leather well, and applied the dye in light coats are holding up really well! I'm really only having issues in two places. On the drivers seat there were some cracks in the leather and I applied the dye too thick. It caused the dye to span the crack. Just like leather, the cured dye is very flexible but not really stretchy. So each time I sat in the seat it would tug at those cracks to open up a little bit and after enough times the dye cracked open and you can see the black leather underneath. Also, the top coat really protects the dye so you could rub a white cloth on it and you wouldn't get dye coming off.
If I were to do this again, I would probably use the foam pad that came with my kit to apply the dye. I was worried it would leave streaks which is why I opted to spray. However, I realized afterwards that the streaks would go away as the dye built up. But using the pad would have helped to prevent me from applying thick coats which are what caused the dye to bridge the cracks rather than lay in the cracks.
Hey man! Sorry it took so long but I finally posted a video about how well the dye has been holding up: th-cam.com/video/OVOuqsKt1ew/w-d-xo.html
You need to adjust your gun psi, it looks like it’s spraying too much but great work 👍
nice mann
If you used white as a prime/base coat, the black wouldn’t be visible.
I agree! I think the black is poking through because I didn't use some really thin coats of a base like white. I also think if I would have used a sponge to apply the dye it would have filled any cracks rather than bridging them. And then when you sit on the seat it would stretch the cracks and cause the dye that bridged the crack to crack and expose the black.
I am Viewer 417 and I think that You did not get cinnamon but you got orange and you forgot to put down a primer
Yea! I originally ordered cinnamon but pretty sure they mixed up the wrong dye which was more of a tan color. You can see that in Part 2 or 3, I believe (I did too many parts, whoops). When I returned the tan dye I asked them to mix up a custom orange (Japanese Koi: www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/P210-7) and that's what I got. I'm really happy with out it turned out.
As for the primer: I probably should have started with a white primer so I didn't need as much dye as I ended up buying. Live and learn :)
Bravo!!!
They Bernardo, just wanted to let you know I've finally finished the leather! I think you'll love it! th-cam.com/video/iHFZd_kENYg/w-d-xo.html
So painted, not dyed.