Cleaning silverstone interior - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

ezmoney888 · 5th November 2009, 21:02

What is a good product to use to get the normal stains of the silverstone interior?

M5Express · 5th November 2009, 22:18

I use Lexol leather cleaner followed by Lexol conditioner. Works great, but you have to use a little elbow grease. I did the entire inerior in about an hour and a half.

superlubricity had a thread he started with some pictures.

PianoProdigy · 5th November 2009, 23:21

I don't think it so much the chemical you use to clean but how you clean. I did a bunch of research on this, and apparently, a soft brush should be used to agitate the dirt from the leather. Before, I was using several different cleaners with just a microfiber or terry cloth towel and I wasn't getting satisfactory results. I just received my leather brush in the mail yesterday, and hope to do some cleaning very soon.

The Zaino Leather Cleaner and Coniditioner smell amazing BTW. I wasn't that impressed with the Lexol stuff.

Edit: this is what I bought: http://www.autogeek.net/natural-hors...ery-brush.html

nlpamg · 6th November 2009, 00:23

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Originally Posted by PianoProdigy

I don't think it so much the chemical you use to clean but how you clean. I did a bunch of research on this, and apparently, a soft brush should be used to agitate the dirt from the leather. Before, I was using several different cleaners with just a microfiber or terry cloth towel and I wasn't getting satisfactory results. I just received my leather brush in the mail yesterday, and hope to do some cleaning very soon.

The Zaino Leather Cleaner and Coniditioner smell amazing BTW. I wasn't that impressed with the Lexol stuff.

Edit: this is what I bought: Natural Horse Hair Interior Upholstery Brush

nice, let us know how that brush works! I'm interested in it. the chemicals I've used haven't been satisfactory.

bavarian · 6th November 2009, 05:00

Zaino leather cleaner works great

JT///M5 · 7th November 2009, 00:33

I gave mine the lexol combo treatment and it left the leather feeling and looking like new again. Very supple! Took off a lot of dirt on the seat bottoms, side bolster, and arm rest.

Getting that boars brush today! Thanks for the link!

CnoteMD · 10th November 2009, 20:23

I'm going to look into that brush. The last time I cleaned my silverstone leather I noticed that using the Lexol leather cleaner did a reasonably good job of cleaning, but after applying a bit of 303 Aerospace Protectant, even more dirt came up. Maybe using a brush instead of a cloth will allow me to get all the dirt up on the first try.