No Heat! Liquid Leather & Vinyl Repair Kit

How useful you find this depends on your goals. If you're good at crafts, and really care about restoring your car seat or whatever to perfect condition, you may want a more expensive kit that gives you more control.But my concern was not with making the seat look like new, it was with preventing existing cracks about two inches long (I bought my car second hand) from spreading. To that end it seems to have worked well. I slathered on three layers (allowing for a day or two of drying between each layer) and the result is what looks like a pretty robust but flexible "artificial skin" stretching over all the cracks. I don't know how long it will last, but even if it just lasts two years or so and then I have to re-apply it, that's certainly better than having the cracks just spread you know they will if they are left untreated. I was worried that the treated areas might be hard (so form a kinda "edge" pushing into my butt and legs painfully) but that's not the case, they're as flexible as the underlying seat material.

This almost felt like too good to be true; I can smear a little of this putty onto a tear in a leather couch and it's like it never happened? Well, there's a lot more to it than that, and it's worth mentioning many times over that you want to practice before you commit, if only so you have an idea of how the finished repair is going to look and feel.The description claims you can do many repairs with this kit. You can actually do roughly two squares (roughly 3" by 3"), unless you've got some sort of leather quilt that needs many different colors. Before it arrived I analyzed the picture and guessed that maybe there was a bottle of repair goo and the little tubs were just dyes. Now I know that each tub is repair goo, which is probably better for color consistency but means you end up with a handful of colorful tubs that don't match anything you own. They do point you to their website for more goo, where I presume you can buy a larger tub of the color you really need. I don't know how much you get for what price, or if maybe they only offer more of the multi-tub kits I saw on their site.I had a worn old black chair that's really comfortable but is missing large sections of the pleather and my wife keeps nudging me to get rid of it. I thought, well, if this kit can do many repairs, surely I can knock out a fair amount of these and restore my chair to looking as nice as it is comfy. I managed to two small patches before I ran out of black. It says to let cure for 24 hours but another comment says you don't need all that time; DO NOT peel the texture sheet off too early or the finish will not look great, and mashing it back on will not fix it. The consistency of the repair is not as soft as I'd hoped. It cures to a solid plastic feel, which might be great for the repair but if I used this on our leather couch I'm pretty sure we'd forever notice the spot where the repair has been made.If you're handy, I think it's a great project for the price, but do be sure to have something to practice on. They include a scrap of material for just that purpose, but I'm not sure if (or how) anyone actually uses that. At under $10 this is a great kit for a small repair in a cheap chair, but not really designed for coating something on a larger scale, and I don't know that even after practicing and learning what I'm doing I'd be confident enough to use this on a nice piece of furniture, (or in a car). I haven't found a better solution for repairing leather and leather-like furniture, so this might be the best there is, but the finished product is just 'okay' in my opinion.

Money well spent for both furniture and shoes!!!I've been searching for anything and everything I could to fix my cat-scratched leather couch, having spent a lot of money on multiple products, which didn't work.This was the only product I've found that I feel is well worth it. In order to get as much adhesion as possible, I cleaned the couch first, then used an old razor to slightly shave off the pieces of fabric that were no longer attached. I used a small paint brushes to apply, the used the included cloth to match the texture. Worked like a dream.I also used this on my favorite pair of black leather boots, after years of wear and no luck with a shoe repair shop, I was willing to give it a try. I used same processes as I did on the couch. Yet again, worked like a dream. I was going to throw the boots out before this, but not now.So excited to have new life out of my favorite boots, and a couch that doesn't look like a cat went crazy attacking it.WELL WORTH IT!! :):)