Mafia experience with Leatherette crack?

[Oli77]

Went at it again since the initial repair barely held up a week.

Add more glue both below and above the crack and did it twice.

On week number 2 now and it is holding up.

[Ryans323i]

Thanks for the updates Oli.

[Oli77]

Started to crack after 7 months.

I have a feeling the patch will come off neatly and will reapply thicker one maybe.

The good thing is that the "fix" has stopped the progression of the tear.

[spoonerDee]

I did a repair a few years ago using Leather Magic. The end results looked a bit better than yours (don't know if its product or person) and I was pretty satisfied with the kit overall. Never got to test it out much though, it was for the back seat which I replaced eventually anyways.

I did learn a valuable lesson though, never kneel on leather when its about 0 degrees outside

[Oli77]

Spooner, you realize this is not a leather seat, its leatherette (plastic).

[spoonerDee]

Yup, not even sure if my seat (in my old car) was real leather or not. But I bought the leather magic kit anyway which did a good job of fixing the crack and blending it out.

One tip I can offer is to extend the coloring dye throughout the whole piece you are working on much like you'd do with paint. When you fix paint, you don't just paint the one spot, you blend out by painting the whole panel. So just lay it out to all the stitch lines and it will make the whole piece look like one. Best of luck

Not sure how much dye they supplied you with, but could help with masking it a bit better.