Seat Doctors leather dye

regtor · May 20, 2021

Wanted to share my positive experience with leather dye from Seat Doctors.
Volvo C70 Leather Dye - Seat Doctors
An inexpensive and easy fix that made a world of difference on my Cranberry seats - see before and after pics below.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

rj240 · May 20, 2021

Wow! That's a nice improvement!

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Sparacis · May 20, 2021

wish I had the same results, I got dye from them for my C30 seats, the color was off and it did not absorb into the leather properly.

mattlach · May 20, 2021

Pretty impressive results.

I had similar results with the cheap youtube hack method though.

I was skeptical. It looks really scary, but it actually worked! I used it on the leather door panels on my 2000 V70, and then tried it on the seats of my 2009 S80 with similar results.

wcoates · May 20, 2021

Don't mean to steal your thread but I've posted this in another post somewhere here. Best product I've ever used in 95 cars owned in almost 60 years. Was on Ebay but could not find. Had Calcite cream for Volvo.

SEATS RESTORE
Ronn Stark
15245 Buchanan Court Eden Prairie, MN 55344 United States
Phone: 952-236-4359
seatsrestore4u2@gmail.com

Juliangraves · May 20, 2021

I painted mine quite recently. All 4 seats costed like 30 usd and 2 days

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wcoates · May 20, 2021

wcoates said:
Don't mean to steal your thread but I've posted this in another post somewhere here. Best product I've ever used in 95 cars owned in almost 60 years. Was on Ebay but could not find. Had Calcite cream for Volvo.

SEATS RESTORE
Ronn Stark
15245 Buchanan Court Eden Prairie, MN 55344 United States
Phone: 952-236-4359
seatsrestore4u2@gmail.com

VOLVO - CALCITE CREAM Leather Color Touch Up Kits for XC90, C79, C70, S60, S80 | eBay

Volvo CALCITE CREAM Leather Color. Touch Up Leather Coloring Kits. touch up your car's seat leather colors with AMAZING RESULTS! Make Your Leather Seats Look NEW AGAIN! bottle of OEM color-matched leather colorant.

www.ebay.com

coachrick · May 31, 2021

Juliangraves said:
I painted mine quite recently. All 4 seats costed like 30 usd and 2 days

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"Painted" you say? What product did you use?

coachrick · May 31, 2021

wcoates said:
VOLVO - CALCITE CREAM Leather Color Touch Up Kits for XC90, C79, C70, S60, S80 | eBay

Volvo CALCITE CREAM Leather Color. Touch Up Leather Coloring Kits. touch up your car's seat leather colors with AMAZING RESULTS! Make Your Leather Seats Look NEW AGAIN! bottle of OEM color-matched leather colorant.

www.ebay.com

Thanks for that! Our seats in the '13 aren't bad; but a friend is looking at an '08 with Calcite Cream...so I might buy them a gift and use part of it

road trip · Jun 1, 2021

Any of you use this on the armrests and leather on the door panel?

RR04 · Sep 22, 2021

Didnt feel like making another topic.
Has anyone tried swapping front seats from newer volvos? P3. Just curious because i got this idea for a while.

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rj240 · Sep 22, 2021

RR04 said:
Didnt feel like making another topic.
Has anyone tried swapping front seats from newer volvos? P3. Just curious because i got this idea for a while.

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But then how would you fold the seats to access the back seats? Unless you swap in Polestar 1 seats, there's no newer 2-door model...

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RR04 · Sep 22, 2021

Dang it. Didnt think of that, since i havent used back seats ever.
I believe mechanisms arent possible to swap, yes?

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rj240 · Sep 22, 2021

RR04 said:
Dang it. Didnt think of that, since i havent used back seats ever.
I believe mechanisms arent possible to swap, yes?

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Everything is possible, but then it becomes much more than just a simple swap...

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RR04 · Sep 22, 2021

True. Will have to look more into this

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Facusan · Sep 23, 2021

I swapped the seat on mine, but this "universal" seat wasn't very comfortable and went back to stock.

coachrick · Sep 24, 2021

Facusan said:
I swapped the seat on mine, but this "universal" seat wasn't very comfortable and went back to stock.

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The original Bucket seat!!!

Oro-o · Sep 24, 2021

coachrick said:
The original Bucket seat!!!

Damn, you beat me to it. My first thought!

If people are in this thread for seat refinishing options, here's my very positive experience with cheap materials ( clean and chem wash, sand and fill, paint, seal). $20 extra if you have the scrubbers and cleaning materials on hand. I posted about it here:

Center armrest re-cover DIY (can be used on seats, too)

I thought I'd post this since I bet a lot of people would like to fix worn out armrest covers. There are cheap (~$15) covers on ebay, but stretching them over the existing cover is less than ideal, and the colors are poor matches (only available in black, grey, and a weird beige). Here's how I...

www.swedespeed.com

There are a lot of ways to skin this cat, just wanted to toss this into the matrix of ideas for people looking for options.

coachrick · Sep 24, 2021

Oro-o said:
Damn, you beat me to it. My first thought!

If people are in this thread for seat refinishing options, here's my very positive experience with cheap materials ( clean and chem wash, sand and fill, paint, seal). $20 extra if you have the scrubbers and cleaning materials on hand. I posted about it here:

Center armrest re-cover DIY (can be used on seats, too)

I thought I'd post this since I bet a lot of people would like to fix worn out armrest covers. There are cheap (~$15) covers on ebay, but stretching them over the existing cover is less than ideal, and the colors are poor matches (only available in black, grey, and a weird beige). Here's how I...

www.swedespeed.com

There are a lot of ways to skin this cat, just wanted to toss this into the matrix of idea for people looking for options.

Dang....I got a little tired just READING that!!! Thanks for your hard work and detailed explanation(I just wish you had YouTube'd it!!! ).
Our C70 isn't bad at all; but your tips will come in handy for sure! I mentioned that a friend picked up an '08 and the seats need quite a bit of work(both vehicles are Calcite Cream leather); so we may take advantage of your tutorial. Cheers

Oro-o · Sep 24, 2021

coachrick said:
Dang....I got a little tired just READING that!!! Thanks for your hard work and detailed explanation(I just wish you had YouTube'd it!!! ).
Our C70 isn't bad at all; but your tips will come in handy for sure! I mentioned that a friend picked up an '08 and the seats need quite a bit of work(both vehicles are Calcite Cream leather); so we may take advantage of your tutorial. Cheers

Making a YT video is a good idea; I do a lot of DIY and am happy to share but haven't learned how to do that production level efficiently yet. Makes sense as to share more efficiently.

I love the 2nd gen c70; almost bought one at auction a few months ago. Wish they were awd/had the option as for me that is a big deal.I am on the fence between a cherry 1st gen Jag xk8 (like, 1998-2003) or 2nd gen C70 as a convertible for summers here. If you have interior refinish q's feel free to pm me. I also did a lot of interior bits on my (new to me) p80 and also the steering wheel. I think I documented it here, but also a long read. (sorry!)

Here is the thread, look on pgs. 3 and 4 for deets on interior refresh and steering wheel refinish, etc.

117k Moondust V70 XC refresh and update - a new snow...

I'll start a thread on building up/re-freshing this V70 XC as it may be helpful to others in the future. Also, I can put my questions and observations here vs. polluting the main sub-forum! Last month I lost my nicely kitted 2004 XC70 with modest miles - was growing to love that car. I made...

www.swedespeed.com

As an aside (based on your sig line) I spent some formative years in the late 70s carted around in a 244. Spent too many years fussing about with German cars (beginning with a 2002 and going through ALL the generations); got fed up and did Japanese a while. I didn't get my own volvo until a few years ago but now it is like coming home and I'm happy.

As a second aside, it seems that having failed so miserably for so many decades on leather interiors vs. German and Japanese competitors, Volvo has a new strategy. They have borrowed from the fabled "Vietnam playbook" and decided to just declare victory and retreat. To wit:

Volvo says it wants all its cars to be leather-free by 2030

A number of companies have announced plans to kit their vehicles out with materials other than leather.

www.cnbc.com

Seat Doctors leather dye

regtor

rj240

Sparacis

mattlach

wcoates

Juliangraves

wcoates

VOLVO - CALCITE CREAM Leather Color Touch Up Kits for XC90, C79, C70, S60, S80 | eBay

coachrick

coachrick

VOLVO - CALCITE CREAM Leather Color Touch Up Kits for XC90, C79, C70, S60, S80 | eBay

road trip

RR04

rj240

RR04

rj240

RR04

Facusan

coachrick

Oro-o

Center armrest re-cover DIY (can be used on seats, too)

coachrick

Center armrest re-cover DIY (can be used on seats, too)

Oro-o

117k Moondust V70 XC refresh and update - a new snow...

Volvo says it wants all its cars to be leather-free by 2030

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