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      03-19-2018, 07:46 PM   #1
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Comfort seats smoke white merino protection

Hi all, I will be collecting my first Bmw F15 X5 next week, and wished to know what are the best products for me to use in order to protect and maintain the leather: Coming from a F10 M5 with silverstone interior, this car will see a lot more family use with kids and child seats, so looking to find whatever products that will maintain the smoke white merino leather, to ensure it looks clean and fresh at all times.

Your thoughts would be much appreciated
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      03-19-2018, 08:05 PM   #2
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Never go in the interior ... just put it in garage and don’t touch it.

I don’t know, I buy dark interiors so I don’t have to deal with it....
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Zaino or Chemical Guys. Amazing products for interior and exterior.

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I’d like to know, as the white leather on my M50d looks great, but it an absolute PITA to keep the marks off.
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I have ivory white dakota (2017) and asked whether i should do something with leather and salesman said NO at delivery at that leather should be ok in terms of tear and wear at least few months and then I should apply something. It turned out to be wrong as after a month or so leather began to crack on very front of driver seat. So I learned leather has to be moistured.
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Definitely Zaino. My wife has a '15 Z4 with the white Napa leather. I "feed" the leather seats with a good dose of Zaino leather treatment about once a month. Looks (and smells) good as new.
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Look in to one of the leather coatings that are available, there are some professional coatings and some off the shelf. These coatings will generally last a lot longer than the standard conditioners and should just require a periodic wipe down with a damp microfiber. Just be sure to spot check in an inconspicuous area first.

Here’s a few options:
https://www.autogeek.net/car-leather-coating.html
https://www.autogeek.net/cg-leather-serum.html (amazon has 16oz bottles)
https://www.autogeek.net/gyeon-q2-leather-shield.html

I'll probably go with the Chemical Guys product as I'm a fan of their product line and they've never let me down.
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Thanks to all those who replied. The Chemical guys serum looks good
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I used this on my interior...but I have mocha.

http://cquartz.com/product/cquartz-leather-vinyl/

So far its working pretty good.
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