Whilst in my local dealership getting door leaks fixed:mad:

I asked about conditioner for leather interior, bloke on desk

says 'oh yes skoda do their own specific product'

only £4.50, so bought some. On the back it says 'suitable for seats,

shoes, suitcases, handbags etc' anyone know if this is worth using,

are they all much the same or is there one particularly recommended.:confused:

I use some autoglym stuff and found it very good!

Got it ona 3 for 2 offer at halfords ages ago so got a leather cleaner and 2 leather conditioners.

They're probably all the same... im guessing with the skoda one you wipe it on with a cloth leave for a few mins then buff it off with a clean one?

The autoglym stuff has a fairly funny smell like leather but not and is an orangey cream colour.

I use some autoglym stuff and found it very good!

Got it ona 3 for 2 offer at halfords ages ago so got a leather cleaner and 2 leather conditioners.

They're probably all the same... im guessing with the skoda one you wipe it on with a cloth leave for a few mins then buff it off with a clean one?

The autoglym stuff has a fairly funny smell like leather but not and is an orangey cream colour.

Was looking at those this morning in halfords, the cleaner a spray

the conditioner a cream. Probably much of a muchness, not on offer though.

Got some 'mur' polish, look forward to using it if it ever stops raining.

cheers:thumbup:

Yup thats the stuff... cleaned em up pretty good!

The polish you got as far as i know is pretty good... have a friend that has used it for years on all his new cars and swears by it... hes polished the car while its wet before tooo! (as you can apparantly do with that stuff!!

It has carnauba wax in too so you get a pretty good shine and beading effect with it.

Yup thats the stuff... cleaned em up pretty good!

The polish you got as far as i know is pretty good... have a friend that has used it for years on all his new cars and swears by it... hes polished the car while its wet before tooo! (as you can apparantly do with that stuff!!

It has carnauba wax in too so you get a pretty good shine and beading effect with it.

Yeah a bloke I work with highly recommended it, when working

for volkswagen it was a product he regularly robbed from the

bodywork shop. He no longer works there (can't think why) so

unfortunately i had to pay full whack for it.

I looked it up on the internet and its actually a good price in halfords... you can only get like a quid or 2 knocked off by buying elsewhere online but for the sake of the waiting for delivery etc you may as well just buy it from the shop!

Yeah a bloke I work with highly recommended it, when working

for volkswagen it was a product he regularly robbed from the

bodywork shop. He no longer works there (can't think why) so

unfortunately i had to pay full whack for it.

Is it Mer or Mur?

Mer was ok, but didn't half powder up and marks trim badly.

just noticed spelling... yeh its mer not mur.

Yeh it is bad in that respect... but brings the paint up good!

Is it Mer or Mur?

Mer was ok, but didn't half powder up and marks trim badly.

My mistake, yes 'mer', thanks for the warning about trim, do you mean

any plastic trim (even colour coded) or just black bits. :confused:

I think just the black pits... it will turn them white and you would need to clean them up or treat them with some bumper stuff.

But anything thats colour coded its fine on... just avoid any black plastic or rubber with it and you should be fine.

... just avoid any black plastic or rubber with it and you should be fine.

Or use peanut oil (peanut butter etc) wiped onto the black trim to bring them back up to shiny black again.

Yep the Mer makes any black trim white and I found I was finding dust all over the car after every lot of rain for the first week or so after polishing.

Another thing is to not use the Mer too frequently as I believe it is actually abrasive. It might be worth using the Mer to polish the paint up then putting a good hard wax over the top and just topping this up.

These days I use Megs DC1 then Turtlewax Glossguard, then top it off with a few coats of Collinite 476s.

Looks very nice and not really much more effort either.

On the leather I use the Zymol spray and then once that has dried I put some of the autoglym leather conditioner on it. I also use the AG leather conditioner on the plastic trim as it leaves a nice dry non silicon finish

Or use peanut oil (peanut butter etc) wiped onto the black trim to bring them back up to shiny black again.

Peanut oil eh, i've got some for use in my ears with a pepette type dispenser.

That should work, shouldn't it.

When referring to mer being slightly abrasive, it won't 'fine scratch' colour coded

spoilers or anything will it. I suppose polish it off pretty quick

before it powders up too much?

Re the peanut oil, cheap smooth value brand peanut butter will work, so I'm sure that will, if a lot more expensive.

I found that Mer did actually leave very light scratching that you could see in direct sunlight or under a lamp on the roof and bonnet of an old car.

Like I said Mer is abrasive so I would only use it infrequesntly and then put a hard wax on it.

If you want a Halfords solution :

- Megs DC1

- Megs DC2

- Simonize hard wax in a tin (Carnuba based)

Autoglym SRP is also mildly abrasive, but IMHO not as much as Mer is.

If you use Mer as an all in one cleaner on the car, you only need to do this very infrequently, say every 1 or 2 times a year. Once you have polished off the mer, rinse the car and dry it again with an MF towel and then apply the hard wax on it.

You can then apply more hard wax coats say once every month or two, depending on how it lasts, after a good wash.

This will reduce the amount of paint you are removing compared to using Mer every month.

It's great on chromed exhausts though

Isn't mer supposed to b applied with a damp/wet cloth anyway?

Isn't mer supposed to be applied with a damp/wet cloth anyway?

The bottle I had didn't say that, but it did say you could apply it to dry or wet paintwork.

I used to just chuck a capful of mer in the wash solution after doing the windows to make for a really great wash and wax.

Regardless it's fairly abrasive compared to other stuff on the market.

Poorboy's for me - got some for the leather in my Dad's Jag and it's very good. Cleans and conditions.

Polished Bliss - Car Care Products - Car Care Advice - Detailing Services stock it, among others.

Steve

The bottle I had didn't say that, but it did say you could apply it to dry or wet paintwork.

I used to just chuck a capful of mer in the wash solution after doing the windows to make for a really great wash and wax.

Regardless it's fairly abrasive compared to other stuff on the market.

My container does specify a damp cloth, sorry to sound a numpty but, these

'hard waxes' you guys refer to, what form do they come in and how are they

applied. Also when you say about adding to wash solution and using after

you have cleaned windows, do i take it you avoid getting it on glass? Am a

little aprehensive with all this abrasve talk, how quicly should i buff it off,

the full ten minutes as specified on tin or quicker?

Thanks

My container does specify a damp cloth, sorry to sound a numpty but, these

'hard waxes' you guys refer to, what form do they come in and how are they

applied. Also when you say about adding to wash solution and using after

you have cleaned windows, do i take it you avoid getting it on glass? Am a

little aprehensive with all this abrasve talk, how quicly should i buff it off,

the full ten minutes as specified on tin or quicker?

Thanks

The abrasive effect isn't really going to be that effected by whether you leave it 10 minutes or not IMHO as regardless of anything else there is abrasive in it.

Think of Mer as a cleaner and a polish and a wax all in one.

The hard waxes are a usually in a tin and a bit like shoe polish. You put them on with a suitable applicator pad usually (I use foam ones) and then when they start to haze you take it off with a microfibre cloth.

Because they are hard they are a bit harder to put on but last that much longer.

Also because most are just a wax there is no abrasive in it.

cheers