What kind of leather treatment?

[eddiemcnally]

What is the best leather treatment for the seats? That won't dry out the leather and kind of restore them. I have an 06.

Thank you

Eddie

[Astroboy]

Take the seats off the truck and just spray-paint or clear coat them.

I'm not kidding. That's what professional restorers do for award-winning classic show cars.

Unfortunately I don't have a specific paint or product that I can point you to, as I don't have an personal experience doing anything to my car seats, other than vacuuming and wiping dirt with wrung-out wet towel.

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Automotive leather seats all come from the factory painted (including boutique marque such as Ferrari and Bentley). There is a film of urethane paint coating on it. The pores are filled with paint. This is why our car seats water-proof and have the quality uniform look.

Leather care for car seats should be completely different from how you would typically maintain leather products around the house: shoes, bags, or even those expensive leather couches with nice aged patina. Those preminum leathers are porous and alive. They breath. That's why you are supposed use lotions and creams to replenish its oil and hydrate its protein fibers.

For automotive leather, its completely different. It should be more similar to how you would care for paint-coat on metal car body. Any treatment you apply only sits on top of urethane paint-coat, and they eventually become gunk. Application of lotions or creams often causes the seats to become more dirtier in long term or sometimes worse like developing mold.

Cracks and creases are the typical damages for aged car seats, right? Those are damages from abrasion or twists to the surface. They are damages to the paint coat, not the damages to leather itself. You can touch up those details with color-matched paint or nail-polish by applying it carefully by hand with a small brush. (You prob'ly would want to use masking tape to mask the surroundings. 2 strips of tapes with a tiny gap in between, leaving you to paint only the crack and letting you to wipe off the excess.)

Perhaps not the answer OP may be looking for, as I realize my comment may be off mark. But I just wanted to contribute in some way for the collective content of this forum.
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[Luv2Camp]

Lexol.... I replaced my interior on my 06 with new factory leather and have been using the lexol on the new leather and works great! About two years since I replaced..