240 cracked leather interior

Hello, I own an 84 244GL wagon in the US. The leather seats are worn
pretty bad, and I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a good
method or product to use to repair them, if not, it may be time for new
seats or seat covers, any advice is appreciated. Thanks

 

This is supposed to be pretty good...
http://www.leatherique.com/

RS

 

Just used that on a set of hard 1800 ES seats. It really did soften
them a lot, but like new?, no, not that good. Maybe with time and a
few more treatments. The dye works quite well, though.

Ron/Champ 6

1963 8E5 Champ (Champ 6)
1962 Lark Daytona Convertible (Boomerang)
1995 VW Passat (Vanilla..yuk)
1994 Volvo 850 (Tilley)
1973 Volvo 1800 ES (An Clar)

 

If they're cracked about all you can do is have them reupholstered, replace
the seats with nicer ones, or get some seat covers.

 

ipd has seat covers for the 240. They are pricy but look great and wear very
well.
http://www.ipdusa.com/ProductsCat.aspx?CategoryID=253&NodeID=991&RootID=629

You can also check the boneyards for a seat in better condition than yours.
It's an easy swap.

Don

 

When I sold my 1800E, the only thing that looked bad was the leather
seats. The rest of the car was mint. One thing that I did was
interchange the left and right seats so the wear points were hidden.

Your posting is the reason I never will buy a Volvo with leather or a
sunroof. Leather seats don't hold up nearly as well as the Volvo's cloth
seats and if you don't have a sunroof it can't leak or fail. SInce I
have hay fever and us the AC, the sun roof is not very practical anyway.
I keep my cars for the long haul and still get a very good resale value.

 

Doesn't much matter if it's a Volvo or any other car, leather seats just
don't hold up for the long haul unless they're well maintained the whole
time.

Sunroofs can be a pain too, though I've been lucky and never had any major
problems with either of mine.

 

OK, I guess I better not start whining about the cracked leather on my
driver's seat, OR the bad sunroof in my "new" 89 780.

I may have to bite the bullet and put in a non-Bertone seat in it, and
possibly just silicone the outside of the sunroof frame, which is
quite gone now.

But I know Mr. Bertone will be turning over in his grave when he
hears about this....

Maybe I can actually find a good-condition seat top somewhere, if I
hunt long enough.


Wish the previous owners had though of the concept of window tint....

That's the first thing I did with this baby when I got it, to prevent
further destruction by the sun.

 

It's not horrendously expensive to have the front seats reupholstered, not
cheap by any means but if the rest of the car is nice I'd look into it.

Or you could get some nice sheepskin covers or something.

The sunroof parts are identical to any other 700 series I think, you should
be able to get replacement parts easily.

 

Actually..


Thanks Rusty!

I checked out that site in your post just now, and have been amazed.

http://www.leatherique.com/

Even though my driver seat has some pretty fairly LARGE cracks, there
may be hope for them yet, if what I saw here was accurate, and it
seemed to be pretty amazing.


I just may try the Leatherique, and see if I can save them.
In some areas of the seats, the leather is so hard it feels like it
will just crack if pushed on, and they describe that as "cardboard
hard" in their directions.

I just thought they were completely fried.
But supposedly, they have "crack filler" you can use if later redying
the leather, I didn't think that would be an option, but I guess I
really don't know all about leather..


Also a good Volvo testimonial there from someone who tried it.

Will advise the group; first I guess I should take pictures of the
seats for later reference.

And besides, it's easier to take some snaps then it is to actually
work on them, so it will appear I'm busy on them!