digitaltrucker

What's up with the leather seats in the newer F150's? Seems that blue jeans are fading or transferring their blue color to the seats.


Never saw this before? Anything you guys do to protect?

Velosprout

Thanks for warning us. I might expect that of new, unwashed jeans, but wouldn't expect that of work, faded jeans. Did the color clean up? What have you used?

Rockjock3

Have you used any cleaner/protectant on them? If so that could be the culprit. I wear jeans in mine all the time (new and used) and have absolutely no problems. I have gray seats so it would show pretty easy.

digitaltrucker

Well it started mainly from my wife and daughter. When I noticed it from my old levis I bought a cover for mine. So it started prior to using any form of a cleaner and treatment.


Yes, if you stay on it, it will clean out but you have to work on it.

DaddyRabbit

I see some Wet Okole seat covers in my near future I think.

digitaltrucker

BTW my wife has the grey ones in her edge and mine are the cream color ones and they both experience this.

CaSCrew11

I feel your pain. It comes with the territory of "leather" seats. I have a 2011 with tan leather seats and have had this problem since day one. Even though I wear dress pants most days for work. Anyhow, a simple dilution of Woolite, at 10:1 water/Woolite works well and clean it off with a microfiber. You can use a generic non-abrasive scrub pad to aid in getting into the deeper folds of the material. Or, if you're the daring type, simple dilute an APC at 10:1, and go to town with the same technique. You can leave it as is, or put a dressing of sorts to condition it, but that's if you like the shiny look. I use the APC solution about once a month and my seats look like new still. This has no dressing, just clean.

digitaltrucker

Thanks for the Woolite tip!

CaSCrew11

You are more than welcome good sir!

CaSCrew11

Hey guys. I just purchased Meguiar's D181 for 22$ from AutoGeek, for a gallon and it just came in and I gave it a shot and it worked great! It's got good foaming action and wiped away the dirt with minimal effort. The pic is of a new terry cloth towel after using it right now. The bottom half is from the drivers side seat and the top half is from the passenger side. It's supposed to have better cleaning ability than their APC yet more gentle on leather and compared to what I pull off with the APC, this seems to have worked better! Btw, I have no affiliation to them and am just stoked to find a great working product, for a great price!



Bottom is drivers side and the less dirty top half is from the passenger side.