I have always used Aerospace protectant from 303 Products on my plane and boat vinyl. more expensive but excellent UV resistance. First time having leather seats to care for. here are my questions for a 2001 S60 heated leather seats:
1. Are these seats made of synthetic leather " what is leatherette"?
2. Should i stick with Volvo car cleaning products instead of aftermarket when cleaning the seats?
3. Waxing car after washing--polymer or pure carnuba based wax?
4. Cleaning the vinyl dash---303 product or better?

thanks

 

As far as the interior parts. I have found that "Duragloss" is the best there is. I get all their line at Carquest. I have been waxing cars for about 45 years and to be honest with you. That Turtle Wax in the green bottle is hard to beat. It shines great and will last almost a year here in the Southern heat. I have used all these high tech waxes and they shine real nice for about a month and then they're gone.

 

thanks for the info.
I'm needing wax, so I will get some this week.

 

Well just cleaned all the Tan leather in my Volvo 1999 v70 for the first time and from what I suspect is the first time ever for this car. Purchased the Lexol conditioner and cleaner. Started with the cleaner first using the (Yellow on one side green abrasive on the other side) non-abrasive side of a standard two-sided sponge as per instructions. Not a very good result but since I have cleaned many leather shoes, baseball cloves, saddles etc I thought I would use and share a few tricks.


1st if leather is very aged and hard it will need to be conditioned first in order to soften it up so the dirt can be extracted. Applied conditioner to all leather in car and let sit for 10-15 min.


2nd Used a moist almost wet sponge with Lexol cleaner and a little bit of saddle soap applied with green abrasive side (note sponge was used so green abrasion was worn I would not use a new sponge). Worked in small areas and kept wiping dirty foam away with moist cloth rinsing both sponge and cloth numerous times. Compared with trying to clean pre conditioned leather to non pre conditioned leather was like night and day the dirt seemed to just lift out with minimal effort on the pre conditioned leather.


3rd Cleaned all leather like this and gave car interior final moist wipe with new clean cloth after above was complete.


4th Used the Lexol leather conditioner and applied with new dry cloth soaked in Lexol went over interior twice and let sit for 2 hours.


5th wiped down interior with clean dry cloth *note much of the dirty spots that I did miss came up with a little bit of effort on the final wipe down.

Synopsis. Leather looks great, all the valleys in the leather that were two tones due to dirt build up are gone and it looks great, slight greasiness to leather but it is going away. Time it took to complete entire job 5 hours feeling I get sliding into nearly new leather seats priceless.